EMEA Fulfilment Optimization & Process Improvement Manager

Join us at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin): Where purpose comes to life.

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose ‘to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team.
Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you?

At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The places we live in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments!

We are currently looking for an EMEA Fulfilment Optimization & Process Improvement Manager to join us in EMEA, Europe at Wavin, an Orbia Business. This is a regional position, and the selected candidate may be hired in any country within the European Union. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

Main purpose

We are looking for a skilled and driven Intercompany Trade Optimization & Process Improvement Manager to join our team. The ideal candidate will systematically analyze and optimize our Intercompany Trade flows while focusing on continuous improvement and innovation. This role is essential in implementing standardized and automated processes, fostering a customer-centric mindset, and improving overall Intercompany Trade operations within our organization. You will work closely with different business units and global manufacturing operations functions to support optimization programs to ensure maximum efficiency and effectiveness.
 

Main responsibilities:

• Intercompany Trade Flow optimization: Systematically analyze and optimize our Intercompany Trade flows, ensuring seamless operations and maximum efficiency across all units. 
• Standardize processes: Implement and standardize automated processes, establishing a Standard Way of Working (WoW) and continuously improving them. 
• Rule development & monitoring: Develop, adjust, and implement Intercompany Trade rules, such as allocation processes, and monitor their effectiveness. 
• Customer-centric operations: Shift the organizational mindset towards customer-centric Intercompany Trade operations, encouraging a collaborative approach over silo-thinking. 
• Master Data management: Improve and optimize master data governance management for Intercompany Trade goods. 
• Inventory & Availability control: Enhance Intercompany Trade goods' inventory and availability control tools, ensuring coordination across all business units (BUs). 
• PIPO Process coordination: Serve as the linking pin between BUs, PM, and Manufacturing during the PIPO process, ensuring smooth operations and communication. 
• Excellence initiatives deployment: Lead and ensure the proper deployment of excellence initiatives to relevant teams within BUs and GMO, driving continuous improvement. 
• Process Survey tool implementation & quality assessment: Implement and utilize process survey tools to assess the quality of processes across the organization. Continuously gather feedback to identify improvement areas and optimize processes. 
• Local team support & improvement plans: Support local teams in identifying areas for improvement, helping to create and implement actionable improvement plans to drive process efficiency and effectiveness. 
• Seeking and translating best practices: Proactively seek and translate best practices from external industry benchmarks. Identify opportunities for integrating these practices into our operations to drive innovation and enhance performance. 
• Execute Excellence team road map. 

Optimization Program Support: 

• Global system implementation: Support global system implementation initiatives, such as gATP, and execute tasks within the BPE framework. 
• Employee development & training: Provide support in skills matrix development, employee training, development, and onboarding processes, ensuring a capable and well-equipped team. 
• Project participation: Actively participate in various FFP-related projects, including footprint initiatives, and contribute to their successful execution. 
   

Our requirements:

• Proven experience in Intercompany Trade process optimization, systems analysis, or related fields.  
• Strong understanding of Intercompany Trade flows, master data management, and inventory control. 
• Experience with automation, standardization, and process improvement in a corporate setting. 
• Ability to drive change and foster a customer-centric approach within Intercompany Trade operations. 
• Strong analytical skills, particularly in conducting ABC analysis and managing classification systems. 
• Experience in implementing and using process survey tools for quality assessment. 
• Proven track record of working with local teams to create and execute effective improvement plans. 
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate effectively with multiple teams and business units. 
• Experience with global system implementations (e.g., gATP) is a plus. 
• Experience with supporting employee development and training initiatives.

Why Join Us? 

• Opportunity to make a significant impact on our InterCompanyTrade operations and global systems. 
• Work in a collaborative and dynamic environment with a focus on continuous improvement. 
• Be part of a forward-thinking company that emphasizes employee development and growth.

What Orbia Building & Infrastructure offers
Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin)! Here we take responsibility for each other and our company. We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world. Above all we encourage all our employees to develop their talents and to become the best version of themselves. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day. Orbia B&I is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

Organization

Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens. Whether it’s to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Orbia B&I collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers, contractors, and installers to help future-proof communities, buildings and homes. Orbia B&I has 11,000+ employees and 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network. Our key commercial brands are: Wavin, Amanco Wavin, Pavco Wavin, Plastigama Wavin, and Bow Wavin.

Orbia Building & Infrastructure is part of Orbia – a company driven by a shared purpose: to advance life around the world. Orbia operates in several sectors including: Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluor and Energy Materials (Koura). These five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions. Orbia has a global team of over 24,000 employees, commercial activities in more than 100 countries and operations in over 50, with headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. The company generated $8.2 billion in revenue in 2023.

Contact us

If you have questions or want to know more about the position, please contact Sumitra Bishwakarma via  sumitra.bishwakarma@orbia.com. To apply, use the ‘apply’ button or e-mail your cover letter and English CV to  sumitra.bishwakarma@orbia.com.

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