How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?
The primary purpose of this role is to manage the end-to-end daily distribution of bulk gas products, ensuring customers remain continuously supplied while achieving the lowest possible total cost. You will act as a strategic coordinator, using a transport management system to build distribution plans that balance production and sourcing costs against delivery expenses.
This role requires a high degree of adaptability to navigate daily shifts in sources, drivers, trailers availability.
In addition, the position focuses on long-term efficiency and cross-functional leadership. You are responsible for analysing delivery outcomes to improve the system’s predictive accuracy and taking direct action to enhance KPIs.
you lead the weekly Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) meetings, fostering collaboration between production, fleet and carrier management, and sales teams.
Main responsibilities will include:
1. Optimising Deliveries
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Identifies the consumption profile of the delivery points and select the potential customers to be delivered
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Checks of orders automatically integrated in the systems and takes and creates orders in the system for CMI (Customer Managed Inventory) customer deliveries
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Feeds the transport management system with CMI orders taking into account the forecasting module to generate a distribution plan in the system and organise product deliveries to internal and external customers
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Adapts the plan proposed by the system according to daily constraints and legal aspects
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Collaborates with maintenance planning by liaising with maintenance department and carriers
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Provides transport carriers/drivers with the planned trips, including the loading and unloading points and the order in which they must be reached
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Total landed cost
2. Trip Return analysis & Distribution process improvement
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Through a continuous improvement approach, closes the loop after delivery to analyse and understand exceptions. Is able to explain exceptions if needed for the trips validation.
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Updates transport management system settings for future deliveries optimisations (data adjustment)
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Analysis KPIs to take corrective/preventive actions
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Assesses regularly the transport management system database and identify incoherent data and corrects them (data cleaning)
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Is responsible for the dispatching workflow and continuously improving it
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Ensures the information collection from drivers and transfers. Ensures that incidents are shared with relevant parties and classifies the urgency.
3. Lead weekly S&OE meeting
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Match demand with supply
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Collect information from: Primary production (availability of gas), Fleet and carrier management (availability of trailers/drivers), Sales (customer demand)
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Agree and formalize actions to mitigate risks highlighted during the meeting and follow up on them
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Escalate to management if needed
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Share weekly S&OE view with all stakeholders
100% follow up of agreed actions S&OE meeting
4. On duty service
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Participates to on duty services according to the local procedure
In rotation scheme, if UK only 1 x month.
Planning check in the weekend.
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Are you a MATCH?
The ideal person for this role will have a background in logistics and experience in a similar role. We also look for:
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Customer minded: You must be able to listen to our customers to understand their needs. Customer experience and satisfaction is what drives us every day.
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Team player: You will be part of a larger team of Schedulers and work closely with internal and external stakeholders. Team spirit and drive is key to achieve our targets of excellence.
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Analytical thinking and Problem solving: You are able to remain calm and make decisions in a fast paced working environment taking into account the multitude of solutions and constraints.
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Communicative: You will be in direct contact with customers, suppliers and colleagues. You must be able to clearly express yourself to them in a friendly and professional way.
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Flexibility: This job requires you to be reachable (on-duty) outside of office hours during one week every month in a rotation scheme.
Required Qualifications & Details
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Education Requirements: A Bachelor's Degree (preferably in logistics management) or equivalent by experience. Your ability and willingness to continuously develop yourself is paramount.
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Language: Fluent in English and Dutch is required.
Our Differences make our Performance
At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.
We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world