Head of Supply Chain Data & Analytics

Location: De Meern

Are you a senior Data & Analytics leader who knows how to turn operational data into measurable business performance? Have you built data capabilities from the ground up and moved organizations from retrospective reporting towards truly data-driven performance management? At Mediq, we are looking for a Head of Supply Chain Data & Analytics to shape and deliver our Operations Data & Analytics strategy across Europe.
You will build the Group Supply Chain Data & Analytics function, create a trusted operational data foundation and use analytics and AI to improve cost, productivity, service and working capital.
You report directly to the Chief Supply Chain Officer, a member of the Executive Board, and are a member of the Operations Leadership Team. You have a dotted reporting line to the Head of IT & MDM for platform and architecture alignment.
Your impact at Mediq  Mediq Operations spans approximately 900 people across 14 countries. Our operational platform is consolidating from 25 warehouses to 4 hubs and from 20 ERP environments to 3. We manage approximately €140 million in inventory and around €100 million in Group Supply Chain OPEX.
Our ambition is to make Operations measurable, comparable and continuously improvable across every market and site.
As Head of Supply Chain Data & Analytics, you build the capability that makes this possible. You create common definitions, trusted data and clear ownership and establish a performance-management approach that allows us to understand not only what happened, but why – and what we need to change.

Your role covers both ends of the discipline: operational data ownership and governance on the way in, and state-of-the-art analytics and AI on the way out.
What will you do?  You will shape the strategy and build the function while simultaneously using data to improve operational performance.
Your key responsibilities include:
Building the Group Supply Chain Data & Analytics function from the ground up, including its operating model, team, capabilities, tooling and ways of working.
Translating the Operations Data & Analytics strategy into a roadmap that first establishes strong data foundations and then scales advanced analytics and applied AI.
Recruiting, developing and leading a specialist team across data engineering, BI, data science and business analysis.
Taking ownership of operational data from source systems into the Group data platform and establishing clear data ownership and stewardship.
Creating one trusted definition for key operational metrics across our European markets.
Improving data quality at source and reducing manual and fragmented reporting.
Owning the Group Operations KPI framework and creating transparency across cost, productivity, service and working capital.
Establishing driver-based performance management that helps markets identify performance gaps, understand root causes and turn them into measurable improvement actions.
Benchmarking performance across markets and sites and making opportunities to close the gap to best-in-class visible.
Translating analytical insights into concrete business requirements and improvement cases for the Operations transformation roadmap, S&OP, IT and process design.
Providing the Chief Supply Chain Officer, Operations Leadership Team and Executive Board with the analytical basis for strategic capital, footprint and network decisions.
Owning the Operations Analytics & AI roadmap and prioritizing use cases based on business value, data readiness, scalability and adoption potential.
From insight to performance improvement  This role is not about producing more dashboards.
You connect customer outcomes, operational processes, productivity, cost and working capital so that performance can be managed through the…