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Solutions Design Manager warehouse

Employer: Michael Page Logistics
Location: Birmingham, West Midlands
Salary: 35000 - 50000
Closing date: 15 Feb 2019

Specialist Area: Warehouse
Sector: Accountancy, Advertising & Creative, Automotive, Aviation, Banking, Finance and Insurance, Charities & Not For Profit, Construction, Consultancy, Customer Service, Defence, Distribution, Education, Electronics, Energy & Utilities, Engineering, Event Management, FMCG, Food Services, Healthcare, Housing, Human Resources, Information Technology, Internet, Insurance, Legal, Leisure, Management & Executive, Manufacturing, Marketing, Media, Military, Oil & Gas, Pharmaceutical, Private sector, Production & Operations, Professional Services, Public Relations, Public Sector, Recruitment, Retail, Sales, Scientific, Secretarial & Administration, Social Services, Telecommunications, Training, Transport & Distribution, Travel & Hospitality, Utilities
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

My client is a leading 3rd Party logistics provider who is going through a period of extended growth. In order to support and continue this growth they require a Solutions Design Engineer who can help their clients develop their logistics strategies.

Client Details

Description

The role of Solutions Design Engineer will include:

Supporting new business opportunities with existing customers for new scope of activity and retention/renewal projects - providing both project leadership and solutions design support, and occasionally new business projects
Providing support to the nominated vertical Business Development lead, through the solutions team, in developing commercially compelling and innovative solutions for new customers from data collection through to modelling/sizing, detailed costing, proposal input and presentation preparation
High levels of interaction with the customer in conjunction with the sales and operational lead to position the ongoing solution development into a commercially attractive, winning proposition
Keeping abreast of developments in logistics within the designated industry sector and ensuring that this information is shared with the relevant Solutions and Operations teams
Work with Operations teams to create account development plans for each existing customer, focusing on achieving 100% success in renewals and creating profitable organic growth through the delivery of new products and services with a revenue target per annum.
Thoroughly understand the business activities of assigned Customers, and in particular their supply chains, to identify business development opportunities.
Develop an engagement strategy with the operations teams to target the key stakeholders in Customer's organisations who have responsibility for renewals and new logistics business opportunities, to create a pipeline of development activity.

Lead the nominated customer through the Solution Design process :

Data collection, analysis, creation of business overview documentation
Modelling to convert business metrics into warehouse and transport solutions, including network design, channel selection, routing and scheduling, warehouse layout/sizing and productivity/labour planning.

Profile

The successful candidate will / will have:

Experience of successfully supporting logistics solutions
Experience of logistics operations
Experience of support customer solutions
Experience of advanced modelling / costing techniques
experience working with CLASS, CAST, AutoCAD, Paragon or similar would be advantageous
Demonstrate people development, motivational, communication and team skills.
Generates motivation to act, to go the extra mile

Job Offer

Competitive Basic Salary , car and fuel /car allowance, bonus, Healthcare, pension

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