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Senior Fulfilment Consultant
FarfetchPortugalfull_timeVerifiedPosted 29 Jun 2023
About the role
FARFETCH exists for the love of fashion. Our mission is to be the global platform for luxury fashion, connecting creators, curators and consumers.
We're a positive platform for good, bringing together an incredible creative community made up by our people, our partners and our customers. This community is at the heart of our business success. We welcome differences, empower individuality and celebrate diverse skills and perspectives, creating an inclusive environment for everyone. We are FARFETCH for All.
OPERATIONSWe're passionate about operational excellence, acting with our customers and partners always in our heart. Covering the entire order journey, we create our online content, secure payments and fraud process compliance, ensure order fulfilment and delivery, while providing customer and partner care. In a nutshell, we love to create seamless and memorable luxury experiences for our customers all around the world.
PORTOOur Porto office is located in Portugal's vibrant second city, known for its history and its creative yet cosy environment. From Account Management to Technology and Product, whatever your skills are, you'll find your fit here. You can have an informal meeting in the treehouse or play the piano in your lunch break!
THE ROLEWe're looking for a Senior Fulfilment Specialist to join the Fulfilment Design team. You'll play a pivotal role in designing cutting-edge fulfilment services and locations, leading key projects, and driving continuous improvement initiatives focused on quality, cost and service excellence.
We're a positive platform for good, bringing together an incredible creative community made up by our people, our partners and our customers. This community is at the heart of our business success. We welcome differences, empower individuality and celebrate diverse skills and perspectives, creating an inclusive environment for everyone. We are FARFETCH for All.
OPERATIONSWe're passionate about operational excellence, acting with our customers and partners always in our heart. Covering the entire order journey, we create our online content, secure payments and fraud process compliance, ensure order fulfilment and delivery, while providing customer and partner care. In a nutshell, we love to create seamless and memorable luxury experiences for our customers all around the world.
PORTOOur Porto office is located in Portugal's vibrant second city, known for its history and its creative yet cosy environment. From Account Management to Technology and Product, whatever your skills are, you'll find your fit here. You can have an informal meeting in the treehouse or play the piano in your lunch break!
THE ROLEWe're looking for a Senior Fulfilment Specialist to join the Fulfilment Design team. You'll play a pivotal role in designing cutting-edge fulfilment services and locations, leading key projects, and driving continuous improvement initiatives focused on quality, cost and service excellence.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Lead critical projects, focused on performance improvement/workflow redesign, business expansion, systems and new technologies implementation.
- Develop comprehensive business cases and measure the return on investment for your projects, closely monitoring project budgets and ensuring timely delivery while maintaining high quality standards.
- Act as a catalyst for continuous improvement, proactively identifying operational challenges, root causes, and opportunities for optimization, and implementing effective solutions.
- Foster and maintain strong relationships with internal clients from different seniority levels, team members, and stakeholders including external parties, ensuring the success of projects.
- Identify and manage risks that may impact the success of projects and the capacity to conform and adapt with shifting priorities, demands and timelines.
- Analyze data to identify trends, opportunities for improvement, and insights that inform strategic decision making.
- Comprehend and map business requirements, allowing to identify and implement suitable solutions that address those specific needs.
WHO YOU ARE
- 5+ years experience in Operations, Supply Chain, E-commerce or similar.
- Degree/Masters education, preferably in Industrial/Mechanical Engineering, Business/Supply Chain/Operations Management or similar.
- You possess expertise in warehouse design, including greenfield projects and optimizing existing operations.
- Knowledgeable in Lean or related continuous improvement tools and techniques.
- You demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of various systems, such as platforms, API communication, ERP, and WMS. This expertise allows you to assess their impact on operational efficiency and proactively propose enhancements to drive continuous improvement.
- Experience in a 3PL environment is highly desirable.
- Possess a customer centric and service mind-set.
- Analytical, able to analyze data to collect valuable insights and drive decision making.
- You excel at delivering engaging presentations and facilitating workshops with cross-functional teams.
- You are self-motivated, capable of independently managing multiple medium to large-scale projects.
- Fluent in English.
- Available to travel up to 25% of your time, visiting client's facilities and Farfetch offices.
REWARDS & BENEFITS
- Health insurance for the whole family, flexible working environment and well-being support and tools
- Extra days off, sabbatical program and days for you to give back for the community
- Training opportunities and free access to Udemy
- Flexible benefits program
- FARFETCH Equity plan
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES STATEMENT
- FARFETCH is an equal opportunities employer ensuring that all applicants are treated equally and fairly throughout our recruitment process. We are determined that no applicant experiences discrimination on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, disability, age, gender identity, ancestry, sexual orientation, veteran status, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. We continue to build our consciously inclusive culture as part of our Positively
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