National Supply Chain Assistant

5 months ago

Atherstone, United Kingdom Aldi Full time

Supporting the team, you will take responsibility for managing third party logistics providers to maximise the availability of our products into the distribution centres and stores.

In conjunction with key stakeholders, you will be responsible for delivering a high quality and cost efficient inbound supply chain both through operational and project management. You will be working as part of a growing and developing supply chain team, looking for continuous improvement within your role to simplify processes and maximise efficiencies.

We do things our way at Aldi. But whatever we're doing, we must be getting it right. With a wave of impressive sales figures behind us, we're opening new stores at lightning speed. And without our National Supply Chain team, there'd simply be no products in those stores.

We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join our dynamic team as a PMO Assistant, within our National Supply Chain Management team at our Head Office in Atherstone.

As a PMO Assistant, you will be working in the Future Logistics team, helping to schedule and coordinate, support, and track a portfolio of projects as they proceed through end-to-end delivery, and are deployed in a number of locations.

This role provides an opportunity to work directly with key decision makers at multiple levels across the business. You will also gain increased visibility across various areas of ALDI including international teams.

**Your New Role**:

- Creating and maintaining basic project plans, ensuring that systems are in place to enable effective planning and scheduling.
- Scheduling (and capacity planning) of projects, to form a programme wide delivery plan.
- Identifying and tracking cross-project and cross-domain dependencies.
- Ensuring adherence to standards for planning, scheduling, and tracking of projects. Reporting to the Project Manager about the project status and developing project performance reports.
- Developing and managing project RAID, leading on defined risk areas, and escalating as appropriate. Following up on actions needed for completion of Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Decisions.
- Maintaining a consistent project delivery approach.
- Tracking and reporting on project stage gates.
- Supporting programme and project governance, setting up control boards, project assurance teams and quality review meetings.
- Tracking lessons learned, including making sure that all have actions/plans in place, and are being correctly progressed by their relevant owners.
- Managing PMO processes (risk, issue, budget, change) - including making sure that all have actions/plans in place and are being correctly progressed by their relevant owners.
- Tracking and aggregating status reports, so as to provide an overarching view of status to leadership.
- Undertaking proactive communications to a variety of stakeholders when appropriate to do so - for example in capturing ‘impact assessments’ for proposed changes and communicating any approved changes.
- Creating various documents and presentations to support leadership meetings.
- Point of contact for project team and communications, managing and engaging with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Creating and maintaining financial data of projects, contributing to the management of project budget throughout the project lifecycle.
- Managing change log, following up on actions needed for completion of Change Requests

**About You**:

- Strong business acumen.
- Prior experience working in a PMO function, or in project management. Knowledge of Project Management and PMO policies, processes & procedures, and methodologies and toolsets
- You have implementation experience in Logistics.
- Stakeholder management experience
- PMO and/or project management experience.
- Planning project management, including setting timelines, prioritising tasks, and assigning team members to various deliverables
- MS office suite, including MS Projects
- Experience in and comfort with working in fast paced environments.
- Highly motivated self-starter with the ability to juggle multiple tasks, has a strong internal drive with the ability to work both independently and in a team environment

**What you'll get in return**
- Starting salary from £34,690 rising to £40,510
- Monday
- Friday,8am to 4:30pm with the opportunity of 2 days a week remote working.
- 5 weeks’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays
- In-Office flexi time
- Full training provided
- Pension Scheme
- Private employee medical insurance after 4 years
- Company sick pay scheme
- Company maternity, paternity and adoption leave pay after 2 years.
- Long service rewards.
- Access to MyBenefits, where you can find a wide range of benefits, including our bike to work scheme, shopping and cinema discounts, health cash plan, a FREE will, travel and discounted gym memberships, as well as a host of benefits to support your financial and wellbeing needs.
- Access to a free, 24/7, confidential virtual GP service for a

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