What You’ll Do
Essential responsibilities:
- People Management:
- Has prior team management experience in the Materials Management domain
- Should lead team by an example, Guide, drive, motivate & engage team to deliver on all key functional expectations such as Supplier OTD, VMI Min-max performance, Logistics cost reductions & Should forge relations at all levels, collaborate internally with different teams, externally with suppliers/customers & work in the matrix reporting structures.
- Shall own end to end responsibility of the team including Performance assessment, Team Career growth, assessing their skill set and mapping the training needs, Finance budget and forecast, Attrition mitigation etc
- Responsible for monitoring execution of production schedule defined by the Network (schedule labor on factory floor, monitor execution of the production plan)
- Customer Engagement and Satisfaction: –
- Drive customer engagement and satisfaction by meeting customer expectations and needs, build customer facing KPIs, voice of customer thru periodic meetings and ensuring timely resolution to customer queries/feedback etc. To plan, schedule and manage the defined business services, delivering to agreed timescales, budget, quality criteria and commitments
- Continuous Improvement:
- To demonstrate a practical approach to continuous improvement of the processes which directly manage the delivery of our services & Champions Continuous Improvement projects to improve productivity of the team.
- Technical Competencies & service delivery requirements:
- Advanced Functional knowledge and exposure in Operational Buying and Planning
- Strong Working Knowledge ERP System specifically BI tools such as OBIEE, Qlik View is required. (Sound knowledge of Kinaxis will be an added advantage)
- Flexible in attitude and approach to accepting all tasks related to the position & Flexible attitude to work with the willingness to learn new skills when required.
- Single escalation point of contact in-case of supply disruptions. Coordinate with suppliers for effective line of balance to keep the supplies in place Drive forecast attainment aligned with the MPS resulted from the SIOP plan
- Execute shipment schedule aligned with the customer priority dates aligned with the network and customer service team.
- Champion and deploy continuous improvement leveraging tools such as internal assessments ( MMA,OPA), visual management, standard work and value stream mapping
- Responsible for maintaining target inventory levels and meeting OTD goals for both internal and external customers and overall freight targets (including premium freight) aligned with the plan defined by the network
- Responsible for plant owned data health activities including but not limited to routings and WMS system, MRO, shipping and receiving, part movements, production scheduling This role is a point of contact to escalations related to execution of the overall SIOP plan
Qualifications
Should be Graduate with Master’s degree (Preferably into Materials / Production / Operations Management) Engineering Graduate preferred
- 8-10 Years of experience in SCM
Skills
Materials Planning and Inventory Management, Data Analytics, Power BI, SQL, Python, Complex calculations and understandingExcellent communication, customer service, and interpersonal skills necessary to converse with diverse group of stakeholders including senior management, operations and Supply Chain Management personnelShould have strong functional knowledge & working experience related to Materials management & detailed understanding of concepts related to replenishment planning, MRP/ material planning & Inventory performance measures like Forecasting Accuracy & DOH
