Planning & Procurement Trainees - Supply Chain

We are looking for trainees for our European Supply Chain Center of Excellence in Barcelona, that's why we would like to invite you to participate in our selection process for the Planning and Procurement teams.

As a **Supply Planning Trainee**, you will be placed within our Supply Chain Planning organization, in the Supply Planning Team in Barcelona. The team is responsible for preparing a European master production schedule, middle and short-term capacity management of Supply, Master Data setup for new items/change planning parameters to fit demand situation. Your role would include support of the team in reporting field.

In this role, you will have to: create and update reports designed to manage Inventory and Service KPI’s. It involves pulling data together from numerous systems, execute data transformation steps, and manage any further requests related to these reports.

As a **Procurement Trainee** you will learn and understand our business, our people and purpose: what we do & why it matters. You will support a major Total Delivered Cost (TDC) optimization project within the Procurement Sourcing team. Our Sourcing teams deal with a great deal of complexity in terms of supplier matrix, items sourced, spend and interaction with the different stakeholders. The role will involve being exposed both internally with the main stakeholders of procurement and externally with suppliers.

**Main Responsibilities**:

- Delivering standard reports & analysis in a timely manner.
- Managing further requests from our stakeholders to build better reports for the business, which can often involve linking different data sources / reports together
- Build new reports and participate in different continues improvement project (European and locally)
- Assist in daily operations lead by Supply Planners and Procurement Representatives
- Are currently studying / just finished studies on **industrial engineering, **master’s degree in Procurement or Supply Chain related studies.
- Have a strong command of English language (spoken & written)
- Use Microsoft Office, especially Excel confidently (complex formulas, pivoting, etc.), Access knowledge is a strong plus
- Have a strong sense of responsibility, customer-oriented mindset, and you have no problems to meet strict deadlines
- Have the ambition to “walk that extra mile”, and open for intellectual challenges
- Being familiar with ERP systems (SAP), macros (VBA), data visualization tools (PowerBI)
- Team spirit and great collaboration skills.
- Strong analytical and influencing skills.
- Ability to work in complex and international environments.
- Are willing to work with us for 9 months.

**What Ecolab offers to you in this role**:

- Competitive trainee salary.
- Flexible, pre-agreed work-time, respecting your other duties at the university.
- You will have opportunity to be in contact with various roles within the Supply Chain, have end to end visibility on main value streams.
- You will develop your analytical and problem-solving skills and get to know different ERP systems.
- Opportunities for development and career growth within the team

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