3rd Parties and Qfs Support Assistant Analyst

Overview:
This role is responsible for overseeing and managing the stock reconciliation activities at third-party warehouses, ensuring accurate stock levels through investigating discrepancies, implementing corrective actions, and managing the associated web portal for stock tracking. The role also acts as a liaison between the warehouses and PepsiCo to address stock issues, escalations, and compliance with quality and food safety standards. Additionally, this position encompasses financial responsibilities, such as handling contract pricing, invoicing, cost card processes, and financial analysis to support the AOP.

Effective stakeholder management and regulatory compliance knowledge are essential, as the role requires collaboration with various internal and external stakeholders, including planning, customer support, master data, transportation, finance, and 3rd party manufacturers and warehouses to facilitate seamless operations across the supply chain.

**Responsibilities**:
**Warehouse Operations (3rd Party Warehouses) (60-70%)**
- Monitor physical finished goods inventory at 3rd-party warehouses, investigate variances, and develop corrective actions.
- Manage the 3rd party web portal for tracking stock movements and resolving related issues and discrepancies.
- Act as an intermediary between warehouses and PepsiCo to ensure accurate stock levels, managing escalations when necessary.
- Validate logistics data for products.
- Collaborate with the Planning and Customer Support teams to ensure appropriate stock levels.
- Implement corrective actions to resolve identified stock discrepancies.

**3PM and QFS support (30-40%)**
- Oversee ongoing 3rd Party management, including handling day-to-day requests, communicating quality standards and requirements, onboarding new partners, and updating contracts.
- Update contract pricing and follow up on release strategy approvals.
- Owner of all price regularizations between COMAN, the French BU and the Finance team.
- Take full ownership of the cost card process, including updating and implementing cost cards, handling invoicing, creating/updating COGS and BOM,updating new components, and new COMAN partnerships.
- Conduct financial analysis and provide support for the AOP process.
- Manage supplier invoicing and PO creation.
- Collect and report on performance metrics and regulatory requirements such as Quality and Food Safety scorecards.

Qualifications:

- Proficiency in English and French (written and spoken C1)
- Demonstrated stakeholder management experience with both internal and external customers working within FMCG operational environment (usually min 2 yrs exp.)
- Demonstrated project management / project engineering experience running projects within an FMCG environment. (min 2 yrs exp)
- Experience defining programs requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements.
- Financial skills - basic cost accounting and ability to build cost cards
- Familiarity with quality standards and requirements and infrastructure (EU& local level) - willingness to learn and undertake introductory training in the Pepsico Quality systems
- Excel & Office package knowledge mandatory
- Working experience in a FMCG company, ideal would be for managing stock reconciliation activities and regulatory systems with a clear understanding of terminology, metrics and KPIs used will be a distinct advantage.
- Affinity for data and analytics, analytical mindset and able to process data quickly to drive required issue resolution.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills - given need to interface daily with executional teams;