Spanish Bilingual Imports Consultant (Hybrid - Atlanta, GA)

Our Customer is an American multinational beverage corporation headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Their many interests include the manufacturing, retailing, and marketing of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups. They are passionate about beverages around the world, with around 200 brands and 700,000+ employees across the company and bottling partners. They take deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in their company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. They believe their culture is one of the reasons their company continues to thrive after 130+ years.

We are looking for a Bilingual Imports Consultant on a contract basis to help support our Customer's business needs. This role is a hybrid setup (3 days onsite and 2 days remote/week) in Atlanta, GA.

Under the general supervision of the Director, the bilingual consultant contributes and delivers the operational plan through transactions and analyzing supply chain data to support decision-making and problem-solving for respective orbits. The position executes tactical support for imports and key stakeholders throughout the business. In this capacity, the consultant is responsible implementing risk management by communicating risk and contingency plans while leveraging business intelligence to optimize cost.

NOTE: Candidates must have their own laptops, the customer is not providing laptops to contractors at this time. IT will set them up on a virtual desktop interface.



Responsibilities:

• Create, analyze, and monitor purchase orders/stock transfer orders (STO’s) for finished goods.
• Resolve errors on purchase orders/ stock transfer orders (STO’s) for finished goods as needed.
• Analyze and resolve errors on invoices for finished goods and transportation as needed.
• Ensure that finished goods coming in are in compliance with the company standards.
• Assess and action open orders, in transit loads, and past due orders.
• Examine reports for stock outs and expedite open orders to full fill inventory levels considering cost to the system.
• Compile and convey pre-cuts to appropriate key stakeholders.
• Evaluate and alleviate dock capacity, and “to old to ship” (TOTS) finished goods.
• Maintain material availability using SAP (or ERP) to implement the operational plans and customer demand, by evaluating order points for restock levels.
• Monitor and maintain (MRP) and update essential system planning data to ensure SAP/Anaplan systems effectively plans material requirements.
• Collaborate with Supply Chain management in managing communication of key stakeholders’ operational meetings and provide support.

Technical Skills/Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree is required in supply management, logistics, business management, industrial engineering or related work experience or work experience of at least 4 years in supply chain or supply planning working for a large organization or diverse portfolio of products.
• Fluency in both Spanish and English (written and spoken).
• Requirements Planning: Ability to plan materials and service requirements to support business continuity and implement proactive risk management as needed.
• Inventory Management: maintain material and/or finished goods inventory levels within the parameter set by inventory policy, monitoring levels continuously, making adjustments to future purchases as necessary while monitoring “age of stock” reports to avoid the risk of slow-moving and obsolete material.
• Forecasting – Demand: knowledge of demand forecasting techniques and inputs (e.g. business trends, seasonality, consumption patterns).
• Master Data: Understand the importance of master data and its impact on driving the MRP/DRP process in conjunction with the ability to identify gaps in master data that are driving sub-optimal MRP results.
• Business Intelligence and Financial Acumen: Making data-driven decisions supporting business continuity and utilizing proactive risk management.
• Results focusing on critical objectives that add the most value and channels own and others’ energy to consistently deliver results that meet or exceed expectations.
• Ability to import & export good ideas by relentlessly seeking, sharing, and adopting ideas and best practices in and outside of the Company embracing change introduced by others.
• Ability to access, analyze and utilize information to identify value-added opportunities, drive process improvement, and outline action plans.
• Ability to self-manage and perform effectively in environments with frequent workload changes, competing demands, and prioritizing assignments to complete work in a timely manner while taking action when answers to a problem are not readily apparent in equivocal circumstances.

We offer a competitive salary range for this position. Most candidates who join our team are hired at the median of this range, ensuring fair and equitable compensation based on experience and qualifications.

Perks are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements)

Health Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life (including spouse & child), 401k, STD/LTD, AD&D, and Commuter Benefits program.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.