Reverse Logistics Manager
Vodafone
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Istanbul • Turkey
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About the role
- The purpose of this role is to manage strategical and tactical reverse logistics operations ensuring that supply chain management is fully integrated with business strategies.
- The Reverse Logistics Manager organizes the storage and distribution of return goods ensuring that the right products are delivered to the right location on time and at a good cost and helps to develop and implement best fit inventory management processes.
- Handling and storing of materials through activities such as loading, unloading and moving articles in a warehouse or storage room, tracking products transported on to recycling partner, Vodafone warehouses and individual suppliers.
- Working according to orders to inspect materials and producing accurate documentation for the handling of items.
- Partnering with Technology & Central functions to enable the effective mindset and process transition to material-level decommissioning planning.
- Governance of planning processes to embed the use of returns within the DB, and ensure zero missed opportunity to reuse assets locally.
- Driving network segmentation to reuse older technology as substitute to evolution products.
- Benchmarking physical returns to the warehouse vs. forecast and available network data.
- Optimizing the reverse supply chain considering local reuse and AMP.
- Optimizing inventory performance, including driving decision making to maximize return on investment (ROI).
- Ensure Vodafone’s compliance with relevant contractual terms to return hardware to its OEMs, and relevant environmental legislation.
- Managing end-to-end recovery transactions in SAP system, and governing the Technology verticals to ensure system adoption by decom. Partners.
- Identifying current gaps and exploring internal & external best practices and proven approaches - case studies or proof-points.
- Root-cause analysis to reduce decom. & Transport damage or quality issues.
- Hardware refurbishment, where commercially viable.
- Developing & executing scalable reuse, repair, upcycle and recycle solutions aligned with Vodafone’s Purpose and zero landfill target.
- Ensure supplier compliance with relevant environmental legislation and supporting internal audit of E2E processes.
- Interface into Central Functions for systems enhancement.
- Typically reports to Logistics Manager.
Requirements
- Engineering degree from a reputable university
- 5+ years of applicable work experience in Logistics operations management (warehousing, inbound outbound distribution, recycling and customs operations)
- Experience in vendor/3PL management.
- Leadership experience in blue colour workforce is preferred
- Excellence in internal and external stakeholder management and business partnering
- Fluent usage of English
- Lives in Istanbul
Benefits
- Vflexy: Flexible Benefits Program
- Hybrid working kit
- Ergonomic kit allowance
- Digital meal voucher
- Flexible transportation allowance.
- Employee assistance hotline & counselling
- Comprehensive and flexible private health insurance
- Discounted price deals for wide range of products & services
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
reverse logisticsinventory managementsupply chain managementroot-cause analysishardware refurbishmentSAPnetwork segmentationtransport damage reductionrecycling operationscustoms operations
Soft Skills
leadershipstakeholder managementbusiness partneringstrategic thinkingtactical planningcommunicationproblem-solvingcollaborationorganizational skillsdecision making
Certifications
engineering degree