Solutions Engineering Analyst

Overview:
Americold is a global provider of temperature-controlled infrastructure. We partner with farmers and food producers to ensure their perishable and frozen product reaches food suppliers, restaurants, and your local grocery store without spoilage. Our customers, which include some of the most respected brands in the food industry, rely on our expertise and commitment to safety in order to delivery on their commitments.

Qualifications:
**Responsibilities**:
**Solutions Engineering Analyst**
- Barcelona, Spain_

**Overview**

The Solutions Engineering Analyst will play a crucial role in optimizing and designing innovative logistics solutions for Americold's supply chain operations. You will collaborate closely with clients to understand their business requirements, project data needs, and formulate strategies that enhance customer efficiency, reduce costs, and ultimately drive revenue growth. Your expertise will be vital in supporting the Proposal Development Process (PDP) and creating presentation materials that showcase Americold's capabilities and unique approaches to supply chain challenges. This position requires a high level of professionalism, strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.

**Main Responsibilities**
- Supply Chain Design: Serve as business matter expert for all of the design phase service offerings Americold provides for both SCS team members and other cross-functional teams
- Employee will work directly with client to understand business requirements of the organization, project data requirements, and formulate strategies that will lead to customer efficiencies increasing, reduction in cost and ultimately drive revenue for the company
- Responsible for adhering to Americold’s Proposal Development Process (PDP), including kick-off meetings, pricing reviews, supporting preparation of Investment Memos, and presenting to Executive Management and customer executive/supply chain team.
- Support development of proposal and presentation materials to convey the organization’s capabilities, value-added services, and unique approach to solving customer’s supply chain challenges. These can also include internal proposals, RFP assistance or Investment Memos development.
- Act as a liaison and work closely with Business Development, Operations, IT, Transportation, Real Estate, and other departments at the corporate, regional, and local level to coordinate and manage projects.
- Develop and maintain mutually respectful and trusting relationships with internal and external customers. Employee must concentrate on always meeting or exceeding the customer’s expectations.
- Must operate with a high sense of urgency in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment. Employee also must display the ability to drive multiple projects independently while interacting with internal business partners and Americold customers. Must have ability to manage resources and communicate progress accordingly to meet all project deadlines.
- Exhibit high degree of professionalism during meetings, presentations, and negotiations internally and externally.
- Proactively determine continuous improvement, productivity, and cost-out opportunities within the Americold Supply Chain

**What you'll need**
- 3-5 years of work experience in a related field including:

- 2+ years in related role such as Network Optimization, Design, Transportation or Solutions engineering
- 2+ years in logistics solution design in a 3PL environment and/or Supply Chain Consulting
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, or related discipline
- Master of Business Admin, Supply Chain / Logistics or Engineering preferred
- Experience in Supply Chain Optimization/Strategy preferred (JDA Strategist, Llamasoft SupplyChainGuru)