Supply Chain Analyst – Adient

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What can you expect?

Adient (NYSE: ADNT) is a global leader in automotive seating. With 70,000+ employees in 30 countries, Adient operates more than 200 manufacturing/assembly plants worldwide. We produce and deliver automotive seating for all major OEMs. From complete seating systems to individual foam, trim and metal components, our expertise spans every step of the automotive seat‑making process. Our integrated, in‑house skills allow us to take our products from research and design to engineering and manufacturing – and into millions of vehicles every year.

The role of Supply Chain Analyst is to drive container centralisation and monitor inventory flows across Adient EMEA. Youll support packaging process standardisation, optimise transport networks between plants and suppliers, and contribute to cost and packaging efficiency. This role also supports programme launches aligned with PLUS methodology and SCM strategy.

Responsibilities

• Identification, design and optimisation of new routes and existing routes in Adient transport network.
• Packaging loop calculation for multiple customer/supplier relations under Adient rules and plant/supplier requirements.
• Monitoring of available standard packaging within Adient EMEA (usage patterns, inventory levels).
• Align optimal network proposals with supervisor, affected plants, execution lead and provide network rules for self‑management to plants.
• Use Adient available tools for managing complicated packaging loops; permanently develop adjustment proposals for changed network environment.
• Maintain contact with network contributors, service providers and Adient central departments.
• Provide best‑practice solutions for recent supply‑chain challenges (network, packaging, logistic services).
• Create, implement and maintain ideas for supply‑chain improvements.
• Support and monitor packaging X‑change database on internet platform to reduce packaging investment.

Qualifications

• Technical and/or commercial apprenticeship: transport engineering, traffic system engineering, logistics or industrial engineering.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in supply chain, preferably in automotive industry at a company with more than 50,000 employees.
• Basic understanding of Adient systems and processes – advantage.
• Broad packaging and transport network knowledge, geographical knowledge.
• Fundamental manufacturing/materials and logistics operations knowledge.
• Good knowledge of supply‑chain solutions, market evolution and Adient plant processes.
• Analytical and process‑thinking skills.
• Understanding of global dependencies.
• Assertive, convincing in arguments.
• English – fluent, German – preferable.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Adient is committed to equal employment opportunity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. As a true global company, our leaders and employees come from various cultures across the world. Our diversity is a source of inspiration enabling us to achieve our goals and build an inclusive company culture.

We are looking forward to receiving your application including your salary expectations and your earliest availability date. If you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact Dagmar Sováková on +421 257 271 126.

Primary Location

Bratislava Business Centre

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Management and Manufacturing

Industries

Motor Vehicle Manufacturing