Insider profil
Top Insider Advice
To be passionate and keen to learn anything new for a new joiner may not be difficult, however, it's not easy to keep it in the mind in each area and industries. To be open minded so that you can learn from everywhere and anyone, they could be your clients, your suppliers, customers and the colleagues in multiple groups and functions as the supply chain industry is the end to end from upstream to down streams with the many interactive spots and links.
Career path
Senior Supply Chain Annalyst
Kingfisher Shanghai office
Started 01/2012 to PresentCompany
What do you like about your job and the company?
As the bridge to link with the upstream and downstream of supply chain, I feel proud of the importance. I can get the demands and requirements from the clients, and this could help me understand the market needs and customer needs and meanwhile, it will drive the production and lead the preference of manufactures. I can work with suppliers to provide the best offer for customers with good quality and proper prices and try to reduce the whole end to end costs to save the working capital and reduce the costs as possible as I can
Greatest achievements
As Far East vendors have much long end to end lead time, including ordering materials, production arrangement, shipping on sea freight and operations in UK ports (sometimes strikes and the congestions will worsen the efficiency), SH office implemented a pilot with 2 vendors, with the system tools management ,finance support, all the functions and departments were oriented by the SC team to make it happen that the production L/T was successfully reduced from 60-70 days to 20 days , which save the large amount of working capitals for the clients in UK and France .
Isabelle P
GROUP SUPPLY SPECIALIST
Top Insider Advice
The best advice that I can give you is to be true to your values during the interview. Like everywhere, a company is above all made up of people so be yourself and think about the people you are meeting and potentially working with as well as the job itself. If you are not hired after an interview, it means that this role is may not have been the right one, but the right one will come along. Keep believing in you and your capabilities and never give up!
Pascal V
Brand Comms Manager
Top Insider Advice
By experience a project is like a journey, the goal is essential but the path to get there is just as important. Keeping good relationship, a "can-do" attitude, open to find the right compromise to move forward are essential. There are strong things to take away from all projects, even in the failures and that should in no case affect the following experience, on the contrary it should reinforce it. Grow together all the time in contact with others, whatever the age or experience, mutual exchange is essential. Work is an important part of our life, it must be source of wisdom as well and part of our personal development.
Alma-Maria B
Quality and Production Engineer
Top Insider Advice
Believe in yourself, fight for your values and try to be independent in everything you do. When I say independent I am thinking about continuous learning, knowledge gaining and hard work. Sir Francis Bacon said "Knowledge is power" and this is my advice for me and why not for you. Never stop learning, apply what you learn and teach your peers and friends based on your knowledge and experience. Working in Quality for so many years I always have in my mind some words of Aldo Gucci "Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten", therefore try to do everything being responsible, being true and with "quality" and your value will be noticed all the time
