Head of Supply Chain Management - Telecommunication Co

Hiring for AVP - Material Management (MM) and Warehousing for Supply Chain for leading Indian multinational telecommunication company.

Location: Gurugram

Roles and Responsibilities:

We are looking for “Head of Material Management (MM) and Warehousing for Supply Chain”.

We seek a highly motivated, analytical, customer centered, creative professional to join our team to

help ideate, execute and drive programs while partnering with stakeholders.

In this role, You’ll Get to:

• This role entails designing, governing, optimizing, and automating warehouse process, policies

and controls with the objective to reduce fulfilment TAT, reduce costs, increase flexibility and business support.

• This role entails entire demand-supply planning and forecast for the entire organization.

• This will involve delivering transformative initiatives through cross functional collaboration while balancing execution requirements and driving rigorous compliances.

• Manage & mentor a team

Deliverables (key responsibilities)

Warehouse Transformation and Governance:

<> Design warehouse and logistics process, policies, procedures, and compliances to maintain standards ofsafety, productivity in daily operations and high degree of controls.

<> Design and implement standardization of warehouse quality across LOBs, hygiene, infrastructure, spaceoptimization, safety standards, surveillance. Documenting and reviewing best practices with industry and global benchmarks.

<> Design of warehouse trainings, guidelines, roles & responsibilities, people continuous assessments for warehouse agencies and internal stakeholders

<> Governance with 3PL partners - Define standard KPIs, SLAs, governance framework, checklists across vendors and internal stakeholders and ensure rigorous governances on these to maintain consistent scores.

<> Establish and drive the entire automation for warehousing and logistics processes. Selection/design,driving adoption, baselining results of industry tools.

<> Roadmap for automating manual tasks, reconciliations, tools such as WMS, TMS

<> Design of tools and processes for end-to-end serial number / lot number visibility for inventory, assets.

<> Close engagement and coordination with cross functional teams across business, warehouse operations,technical teams to deliver the above results.

<> Embedding new functional capabilities in people and processes for continuous improvements

Material Planning – Demand and supply side:

<> Design and implement standardization of material management process quality across LOBs.

<> Documenting and reviewing best practices with industry and global benchmarks.

<> Capital work in process (CWIP) monitoring.

<> Governance on aged inventory and creating a mitigating plan.

<> Lead demand planning across LOBs and ensure timely supply delivery and governance.

<> Drive analysis and methods for anticipating demand, building resilience and flexibility to changes in demand.

<> Drive automation for smooth functioning of process and efficiencies

Compliances:

<> Ensuring compliances wrt warehouse operations, packaging, and waste disposal

<> Ensuring all applicable statutory compliances are adhered.

<> Ensuring all custom duty compliances are adhered.

Scrap disposal:

<> Design and drive scrap disposal process from end to end

<> Implement ESG way of working.

Custom Duty:

<> Ensure smooth clearance of imported goods.

<> Ensure correct change in tariff (CTH) calcification.

<> Assessment of bill of entry

Demonstrate (Key competencies):

• Strong Analytical and Data Interpretation Skills
• Design thinking
• Multi-Tasking Skill
• Navigating change
• Strong Communication skills - Both written and verbal
• Portfolio & Program Mgt skills an added advantage.
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal and networking skills.
• Thought leadership

Educational Level:

PG – MBA in Supply Chain Management / Operations Management (preferred) form tier 1 institute

Working Experience:

• 12-18 yrs. of experience in Material management and demand-supply planning

• Multi geography experience with minimum of 5 warehouse responsibility.

• Understanding of logistics