Sr. Manager of Supply Chain - Azamara
Miami, FL 33133
About the Job
SUMMARY:
Azamara is seeking an innovative, passionate, detail oriented, and organized Sr. Manager of Supply Chain to help evolve and propel our team during a time of exciting growth.
ABOUT AZAMARA:
Azamara is a global premium cruise line that inspires curious and passionate travelers to spend more time exploring the world with us on our immersive cruises. We offer our guests a world class experience onboard and while visiting destinations around the world. Our employees enjoy an environment that offers a hybrid schedule (2 days in the office) and collaborating in a beautiful office space located in the center of Coconut Grove.
WHY YOU SHOULD WORK FOR AZAMARA:
The Sr. Manager of Supply Chain will gather and deliver timely, meaningful insights and thought leadership on how competitive actions and market trends will influence our day-to-day supply chain operation. This position will work closely with the Director of Supply chain to monitor our vendors key expenditures including hotel F&B, Marine Repair and Maintenance, Drydocks, Newbuild support, Fuel, Airlines, Corporate and other areas as identified by management. This position will also look into efforts to minimize costs.
FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
WHAT WE LOOK FOR: (Requirements)
Azamara is seeking an innovative, passionate, detail oriented, and organized Sr. Manager of Supply Chain to help evolve and propel our team during a time of exciting growth.
ABOUT AZAMARA:
Azamara is a global premium cruise line that inspires curious and passionate travelers to spend more time exploring the world with us on our immersive cruises. We offer our guests a world class experience onboard and while visiting destinations around the world. Our employees enjoy an environment that offers a hybrid schedule (2 days in the office) and collaborating in a beautiful office space located in the center of Coconut Grove.
WHY YOU SHOULD WORK FOR AZAMARA:
- Be part of a growing and transformative company
- Work with a multicultural, global team of inspired professionals who believe in:
- CURIOSITY that makes us more open minded, empathetic, better problem solvers, and more self-aware.
- SUSTAINABILITY that supports a world where blue meets green.
- INTEGRITY that drives us to do the right thing even when no one is watching.
- ACCOUNTABILITY that supports empowerment and ownership for results.
- PASSION – it’s part of our DNA!
- Engaging, and friendly; a natural relationship builder and organizer.
- You have a good grasp of time management.
- You love what Azamara is about and feel energized talking about our organization and what it has to offer.
- You’re the one knocking on your supervisor’s (virtual) door rather than waiting for help.
- You are a good communicator and a great listener.
- You have a knack for coming up with creative solutions to challenging problems.
- You thrive in a flexible work environment and value the support and companionship that comes from being part of a high-performing team.
The Sr. Manager of Supply Chain will gather and deliver timely, meaningful insights and thought leadership on how competitive actions and market trends will influence our day-to-day supply chain operation. This position will work closely with the Director of Supply chain to monitor our vendors key expenditures including hotel F&B, Marine Repair and Maintenance, Drydocks, Newbuild support, Fuel, Airlines, Corporate and other areas as identified by management. This position will also look into efforts to minimize costs.
- Works closely with the Director of Supply chain to develop the HF&B Supply Chain function by working across Hotel Operations both shipboard and shoreside, Finance, 3P service providers Oceanic Catering and Hellmann’s Logistics, and others as needed to identify gaps and proposing solutions.
- Looks to optimize the Supply Chain function with a focus on lowering total delivered product costs through ongoing review of sourcing and distribution strategies across all stakeholders.
- Develops and monitors a set of service level agreements and dashboard to identify the key handoffs between individual stakeholders and the supply chain function.
- Develops together with the Director of Supply chain key Performance Indicators to monitor stakeholder and 3P performance on an on-going basis. Emphasis will be on identifying issues with as much lead time as possible to allow for cost-effective corrective actions and minimizing the workload for the shipboard staff.
- Involved with the potential auditing of supply chain contracts with both 3P and agreements utilized by 3P as agents of Azamara to ensure continued transparency in all business practices.
- Oversee Inventory Managers (in a dotted line management relationship) to ensure visibility of on-board inventory while acting as bridge between Logistics, Procurement, Operations and Finance and raising/ escalating operational issues while establishing appropriate oversight, policies, procedures, and protocols as needed.
- Performs other ad hoc duties as required. This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees will be required to perform any other job-related duties assigned by their supervisor or management.
FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- List any responsibilities for budget, expenses and/or achievement of revenue targets in US Dollars.
- Assist with ongoing budgeting/ financial projections on behalf of supply chain understanding budgets are a combination of supply chain responsibilities (price) and operations (usage).
WHAT WE LOOK FOR: (Requirements)
- 3 years Cruise Experience Required
- Bachelor of Business Administration/Logistics/Supply chain/Finance preferred
- 8 + years of experience in broad based background in Supply Chain, with experience interfacing with Operations, Finance, 3P Providers, and management at all organizational levels, and comfortable working in an environment that continues to be built and is expected to scale.
- Experience with cruise, hotel, airline, restaurant, consumer, travel/OTA companies is required. Combination of education and experience in related field will be considered.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills are required.
- Occasional travel may be required
- Ability to pull information from a variety of systems in order to build the “full picture” for management and make summary recommendations based on such picture.
- Strong leadership, motivation, and communication ability.
- Is comfortable presenting publicly and is skilled at communicating complex ideas to senior leadership.
- Skilled in analyzing information, problems, situations, practices or procedures.
- Ability to analyze information and form conclusions to summarize and present to senior leadership.
- Experience with corporate and industry analytics and research techniques.
- Excellent interpersonal skills to communicate across Business Units with all levels of management and employees.
- Proven working knowledge of personal computers, with associated financial, analytical, desktop software and communication packages.
Source : Azamara
