Global Asset Manager

Air Liquide•Branchburg Township, NJ

1d•$150,000 - $190,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Global Asset Manager manages Air Liquide Advanced Materials’ global mobile asset fleet, valued at nearly $100 million, and the annual purchase of $5–$10 million in resale assets for affiliates and customers. The role optimizes asset margins, utilization, working capital, and capital budgeting by managing the asset lifecycle from procurement and onboarding through assembly, customer invoicing, repair, resale, and scrapping. The manager identifies cost-saving opportunities through supplier comparisons, quantity discounts, import duties, transportation costs, asset repurposing, and repair-versus-scrap decisions. The position develops and improves global fleet-planning processes, analytical tools, reports, governance, and lifecycle documentation. It works with global planning, product management, technical marketing, product development, production, procurement, operations, affiliates, logistics, sales/customer service, and finance to align fleet needs with customer demand, maintain accurate fleet records, improve repair and rotation times, and ensure timely asset delivery and invoicing. The role also supports annual asset capital budgeting, tracks CAPEX and OPEX, and manages the transition of seed fleet assets from CAPEX to resale. The Global Asset Manager ensures that canisters and cylinders meet applicable global regulatory standards, documents proprietary packaging, establishes component price-list governance, and recommends fleet standardization. This is a transformation role with a 2–4 year maturity-building horizon: the manager will lead a multi-year asset-management roadmap, introduce best practices in governance and operational control, and influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority. The position is based in Branchburg, New Jersey, with a hybrid 3-2 schedule and up to 10% travel based on business needs. Salary range is $150,000–$190,000, with a 10% annual bonus.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or higher, preferably in Engineering, Data Science, Supply Chain, or a math-based curriculum, with extensive data analytics competency and 7–12 years of supply chain experience; alternatively, an associate’s degree in Business Management/Administration with 10 or more years of relevant experience.
Demonstrated ability to manage complex information systems and hands-on experience with SAP or another Tier 1 ERP platform.
Proficiency with data analytics tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Python, MS Excel, or Google Sheets.
Strong analytical, structured problem-solving, and process-oriented skills.
Ability to develop or maintain working knowledge of container fleet transportation, maintenance, and safety regulations, including 49 CFR, 15 CFR, DOT, IATA, and IMDG.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex information clearly and concisely.
Cost-optimization, waste-reduction, operational-efficiency, and customer-satisfaction mindset.
Highly responsive, with a strong sense of urgency.
Ability to influence and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.
Willingness to travel up to 10% based on business needs.

Nice To Haves

Experience in the packaged gas, semiconductor, or chemical industries.
Working knowledge of statistical process control (SPC).
Three to five or more years of demonstrated, in-depth SAP competency.
Lean Six Sigma certification or practical experience.
Passion for continuous learning and driving operational improvement.
Strong interpersonal skills for collaboration across internal stakeholder levels.
Commitment to developing deep domain knowledge of ALAM products, operations, and customers.
Multilingual ability in English plus Spanish, French, Japanese, Mandarin, or Korean.

Responsibilities

Manage the global mobile asset lifecycle, including procurement, onboarding, assembly, resale, repair, maintenance, and scrapping.
Optimize asset margins and minimize purchase costs by evaluating supplier rates, quantity discounts, import duties, and transportation costs.
Reduce working capital and purchase-to-invoice cycle time by monitoring receipt, build, and invoicing actions in SAP and coordinating with logistics, operations, and finance.
Develop and improve the monthly fleet-planning process in coordination with global planning, customers, and product management.
Model fleet requirements using customer fleet, rotation rates, and demand forecasts, and coordinate asset repurposing or purchases to meet requirements.
Identify opportunities to repurpose assets across molecules, affiliates, and customers, and support the fleet-seeding program.
Maintain accurate SAP records of fleet ownership and molecule use, and evaluate fleet data monthly.
Follow up with affiliates on idle assets and with site operations on stranded canisters to prevent shipment delays and improve utilization.
Coordinate timely asset repairs, assess repair-versus-scrap tradeoffs, minimize scrapping costs, and return repaired canisters to circulation promptly.
Monitor scrap assets and coordinate inventory removal and write-offs with ALAM and affiliate finance teams.
Create, document, train stakeholders on, and implement governance processes for the complete asset lifecycle; maintain process documentation as changes occur.
Develop analytical tools and reports for lifecycle management and publish monthly asset-utilization and fleet-performance reporting.
Monitor asset rotation rates, investigate significant variations, and coordinate returns or fleet-size changes with planners and affiliates.
Monitor asset sales-order on-time-in-full performance and take corrective action when needed.
Support annual fleet capital-budgeting processes for ALAM and affiliates in alignment with projected sales; track purchases against CAPEX and OPEX and publish monthly analytical reports.
Manage CAPEX-to-resale transitions for seed fleet assets.
Ensure canisters and cylinders comply with applicable global standards, including KSA, DOT, and CFR, and document proprietary packaging.
Establish formal price lists for frequently purchased components and propose SKU and fleet-complexity rationalization and asset standardization.
Lead a multi-year maturity roadmap for asset management and influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.
Develop deep understanding of container nomenclature, standards, bills of materials, and the products supported.