Logistics Costing Center (LCC) Project Management
The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services, in the areas of automotive and industrial technology, consumer goods as well as building technology.
Bosch established its first representative office in Ho Chi Minh City in 1994. Since 2007, Bosch has expanded its footprint in Vietnam where it has branch offices in Hanoi and Da Nang, as well as a Powertrain Solutions plant in the Dong Nai province to manufacture pushbelts for continuously variable transmissions (CVT) in automobiles. In addition, Bosch operates Bosch Global Software Technologies Vietnam (BGSV) as well as an automotive R&D center for mobility solutions in Ho Chi Minh City. As of December 31 2023, Bosch employed approximately 6,300 associates in Vietnam.
Bosch Vietnam is currently active with many business divisions: Mobility Aftermarket, Drive and Control Technology, Power Tools, Building Technology, Two-Wheeler and Powersports and Sales Original Equipment, AquaEasy, Home Appliances and Supply Chain Consulting.
Responsibilities:
- Project implementation to launch LCC services in defined countries
- Collect requirements from customers and work with operations team and Logistics service provider (LSP) to design end-to-end LCC process.
- LSP onboarding, i.e., to provide training of LCC processes to LSPs and ensure implementation is on track.
- Go-live LCC in the countries and hyper care whether LSPs and customers are strictly following the processes and do change management whenever necessary.
- Point of escalation from operations team for all logistics cost clearance (LCC) topics
- Handle exceptions during LCC process, i.e., LSP late billing, wrong billing.
- Work with LSP manager and PUI to validate any “tricky” costs, i.e., ad hoc quotation, demurrage cost, overtime, etc.
- Work with PUI to complete rate card in case of new lanes, new requirements from customers, etc., so that operations team can do the billing verification.
- LSP billing performance management
- Measure LSP billing performance monthly, i.e., accuracy, timeliness, etc.
- Work with LSP to improve the billing performance, with support from LSP managers from all service lines, i.e., warehouse, transportation, etc.
- Support LSP strategy related projects in the region with data and facts from LCC team.
- Data analysis to provide business insight to both internal team and customers
- Analyze logistics cost data to identify problematic areas and coordinate with other stakeholders for improvement.
- Collaborate with customers and PUI mainly to do logistics cost forecasting.
- Monitor actual cost and find root causes of deviations against forecasted cost to provide business insight to customers.
- Key account for defined countries
- One contact window for all LCC topics for customers in the defined countries, for example, any inquiries or reports, escalations from customers, etc.
- Report LCC KPI to customers monthly.
- Understand customer requirements to represent customers whenever it comes to customer collaboration topics in LCC team.
- Participate in all logistics tenders in the defined countries to present LCC requirement to the LSPs and tender project team.
- Back up operations team to ensure operations run smoothly whenever necessary
- Monitoring and validating the freight cost invoices issued by logistics service providers.
- Detective control to ensure billing verification is done in a compliant way according to company policies.
- Monitor the end-to-end process from accrual till cost booked to SAP to ensure everything is on time and accurately by working cross-functionally with financing and accounting team.
Candidate is required to do the LCC operation job in parallel to carry out the roles above.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, International Trade, Supply Chain (Logistics, Purchasing), Business Administration or equivalent (with distinctive knowledge in business administration, which has been proven through a relevant position in the logistics or admin area).
- 3 years’ experience in logistics operations or cost controlling.
- Project management experience is required.
- Know-how in logistics and finance. OPEX (operation process excellence) is a plus.
- Strong data analysis and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with ability to work with cross-functions.
- Ability to lead projects/assignments and coordinate with stakeholders.
Benefits:
- Collaborative yearly performance bonus.
- Meal and mobile allowance.
- Premium insurance for employee and relatives.
- Domestic and international training opportunities.
- Career development program with buddy and mentoring program.
- Good benefits of company activities, team building and year-end party.
- Opportunity to work on global projects of a fast-developing company and be a part of an innovation team contributing initiative ideas to the digital transformation era.
Disclaimer:
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