Your Mission
Build and Drive Global DC Network Strategy:
- Lead the design and governance of On's global DC network strategy, ensuring it is future-ready and fully aligned with our LRP expectations, commercial strategies, brand ambitions and regional demand.
- Drive the governance for end-to-end data gathering and validation, establishing a strong process-driven framework while assuming deep collaboration and involvement from regional operational teams (regional Distribution & Logistics).
- Implement resilience and scalability as core principles of our DC network to manage future volatility and enable seamless commercial expansions around the globe.
- Define and spearhead the long-term warehouse automation strategy, evaluating where and what automated technologies make practical and economic sense for our global footprint.
Network Study, Expansion Planning & Optimization:
- Oversee comprehensive network studies and assessments, balancing cost-to-serve metrics with a premium customer experience (CX) across channels.
- Provide expert support and rigorous analysis for business cases related to network expansion, relocation, or consolidation, influencing strategic investment decisions.
- Lead mid-to-long term expansion planning, analyzing the distribution network impact of new Retail formats, MarketPlace models, and Dropship launches.
- Manage and provide governance for advanced scenario modeling and flow optimization. You will steer the methodology, guide project frameworks, and interpret results to influence strategic investment decisions.
RFP Support & Strategic Capacity Management:
- Support logistics procurement and tender projects by contributing to the pipeline definition, establishing project scopes, and engineering standardized data frameworks.
- Provide end-to-end RFP support, including standardized solution design, 3PL capability assessment, and contractual definition to ensure new partnerships meet On's scalability and efficiency targets.
- Develop and implement a multi-tiered forecasting framework spanning from Long-Range Planning (LRP) down to granular methodologies, supporting precise capacity management and proactive planning alongside our global 3PL partners.
- Continuously monitor warehouse capacity across our global network, identifying and projecting additional needs for the mid-to-long term.
- Lead contingency planning efforts to ensure network resilience and agility in response to unforeseen challenges, potential disruptions and demand shocks.
