• Define inventory targets, for all products and channels,  including Regional, European and Manufacturing Distribution Centers.
• Plan the monthly Inventory level with 18 months horizon together with Tactical and Operational teams. This includes mapping total inventory, production, import, sales and export.
• Define the optimal Distribution Centers (DC) network together with Logistics team. This includes total inventory level by warehouse and product group. 
• Analyze the quality of the stock and project the future evolution (good stock, OE SK, Slow Moving , Obsolete).
• Work with Sales & Marketing to identify the necessary actions to keep OE SK and Slow-Moving stock at lowest possible level.
• Identify and discuss team future risks (shortages) and opportunities with Sales and LSCM.

Qualified candidates for this position will need to demonstrate the following:

• Demonstrates business acumen to achieve results through others:  Understands, educates and applies the fundamental business concepts by which a company operates in order to deliver results and create a climate that fosters personal commitment to excellence.
• Promotes and enhances company culture:  Champions the organization’s shared values and beliefs.
• Effectively manages across cultures: Achieves effective collaboration, alignment, and communication across multiple dimensions of cultural diversity.
• BOSS focused - serves the customers having the end users in mind:  Makes BOSS (end users) and their needs a primary focus of one’s actions; develops and sustains productive relationships with BOSS; leverages BOSS intimacy in the development of new products, services and competitive advantage.
• Intellectually curious in support of learning agility:  Actively identifies new areas for learning; regularly creates and takes advantage of learning opportunities; uses newly gained knowledge and skill on the job and learns through their application.

Required Capabilities:

• Strong values in line with Bridgestone’s behavioral expectations (= Agility, Courage and Ownership).
• Experience in using data analysis tools. e.g. Excel, Microsoft Business Intelligence, other relevant business information software.
• Attention to detail.
• Planned and organized approach in completing tasks.
• Ability to collaborate with a diverse range of people with different personalities and backgrounds, Strong communication skills, both oral and written: Ability to translate numbers into insights, and present them to stakeholders in an easy-to-understand manner.

Requirements:

• Supply Chain, Business or Business Engineering degree or equivalent.
• Fluent in English, additional language (Dutch, French…) is a plus.
• Experience in supply chain planning / operations is a plus.
• Experience with big data / analytics is a plus.