Location: Hybrid at Kohler, WI 

Opportunity

Kohler Co. is seeking an experienced Project Specialist to enhance and develop Global Logistics Network design solutions for an international supply chain. We are a fast-paced, exciting, and growing organization in search of the most talented supply chain professionals. We "think BOLDY" to revolutionize a worldwide customer experience and fulfill our promise to a gracious living for our customer.

The successful candidate will lead the development of strategic network initiatives for our North American Distribution, Fulfillment and Inventory Operations. From inbound lead times to inventory placement, capacity management and site expansion. This candidate will think holistically about how to advance our US network. Strong candidates will have a history of success in network modeling, designing operational and information management processes, delivering tangible results, and turning ideas into reality with smart and effective solutions. This role requires a highly qualified professional capable of independently assessing a strategic design concept, pulling together information from a set of diverse stakeholders, and synthesizing a recommendation.

Project Specialist – Network Design is responsible for supply chain optimization scenario development and execution utilizing multiple data sources, demand/supply plans, network modeling tools as well as various proprietary tools developed by Kohler Co. The Project Specialist will be part of a project team and work collaboratively with Global Technical Center and Network Design analyst as well as field leaderships in high impact, high visibility initiatives involving distribution territory strategies, facility decisions, product stocking and profit maximization projects. This role also supports the development of new capabilities and scope of work for Supply Chain Design which involves discovery and creative problem solving anchored on heavy operational and financial data analytics.

Specific Responsibilities

• Developing strategic network models and optimization solvers that recommend the inbound strategy focused on lowering end-to-end costs and improving lead time.
• Develops and presents Network Plans, models, analytics and strategic options and recommendations to the Supply Chain and KBNA business leadership teams.
• Build scalable and complex supply chain models and processes to optimize supply chain strategies with the goal of delivering an excellent customer experience while balancing operating cost and asset efficiency.
• Optimizing worldwide flows of inventory, both existing and new, to achieve the highest levels of reliability, speed, and cost.
• Think holistically about cost, speed, and flows from origin nodes to destinations globally with a focus on diving deep into data and analytics.
• Demonstrate a high degree of originality and creativity when developing solutions to improve existing business processes within supply chain.
• Can deal with ambiguity and make independent decisions about what data and approach is best for the task at hand.
• Responsible for data sourcing, cleansing, analysis as required for each project.
• Documenting modeling approach, data sources, transformations, assumptions, and constraints.
• Complete execution of running model refresh/update queries and performing custom data collection/extracts for special projects.
• Responsible for interpreting output of optimization models including physical flows, operational metrics, and financial outcomes.
• Evaluating model output for errors and performing sensitivities to model assumptions/constraints.
• Create and deploy robust metrics and dashboards to enable tangible transformation.
• Communicating strategic recommendations in formal documents directly to executive-level sponsors to secure funding approval.