Supply Chain Excellence Manager

As the Supply Chain Excellence Manager, you play a crucial role in the Regional Supply Chain organization by driving projects, standardization, continuous improvement, and business reviews to enhance customer experience and operational efficiency. Your responsibilities include: - **Strategic Collaboration:** - Collaborate with Regional Supply Chain leaders to translate strategy, vision, and long-term goals into actionable plans. - Facilitate monthly business reviews between affiliates and upstream supply chain functions through collaborative efforts. - **Continuous Improvement:** - Drive a culture of continuous improvement in all aspects of the supply chain. - Support Area Supply Chain to identify productivity and cost improvement opportunities to drive gross margin improvement initiatives. - Create and align business cases with cross-functional teams. - Assess the business environment, dynamics, and customer requirements to better align internal processes to improve customer experience. - **Project Management:** - Lead key supply chain projects, clearly defining project scope, goals, timelines, and deliverables. - Execute and track project progress, identify risks, develop mitigation plans, and ensure on-time completion. - Communicate project status, highlight associated risks, and provide contingency plans to stakeholders, sponsors, and leadership. **Requirements:** - 7+ years of experience in Supply Chain, Logistics, or Project management within the Nutrition/Healthcare/Pharma industry. - Experience in supply chain, project management, people management, and change management. - Experience with facilitating business reviews/S&OP is preferred. - Strong leadership/influencing skills and a track record of driving projects to successful completion, even in matrix organizations with different support groups and potentially conflicting objectives. - Practical knowledge and experience with CI tools such as Lean, Six Sigma, JI, DMAIC, and similar tools and methods are preferred. - Strong communication skills. - Proficiency in PC skills (MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Word).,