Head - Strategy & Planning - SCM - Telecom

Location: Mumbai or Bangalore

Experience: Min 6 years

Key responsibilities

Planning

- Develop annual procurement plan and long-term strategy document for Supply Chain function

- Align the supply chain function with other business units

- Operate within the limits of authority as defined by the Delegation of Power (DoP)

Cross Functional Collaboration

- Ensure close coordination with business and other stakeholders to ensure full alignment of procurement activities with business needs

- Lead and/or participate in cross-functional teams

- Facilitate ongoing collaboration between the Supply Chain Operations team, Sourcing function and Logistics team

- Leverage and share information with the direct reports and the wider team

- Monitor actual performance against established targets, and identify areas of improvement as and when required

Team Management

- Manage and monitor day-to-day activities of direct reports

- Manage, coach and train the team to the extent that the team has adequate skillset and capabilities to deliver quality output and performance

- Provide on-going career development, support and coaching for direct reports

- Provide feedback to team, and identify need based training requirements for direct reports

- Solicit ideas and foster an environment for personnel development of the team

Operations Improvement

- Work closely with supply chain staff to increase capacity and continuously improve operations to produce positive year on year growth of business

- Ensure that all inventory schedules and material distribution schedules are met. Manage variances and identify opportunities to improve inventory accuracy

- Drive continuous improvement to operations by reducing turnaround times, streamlining work processes and providing quality customer service to Business Units

- Oversee ongoing improvement initiatives like process excellence, IT enablement, automation of Supply Chain Management processes

CSCO Office

- Define the strategy for SCM at the begining of the financial year and derive KRA for the function. Ensure the KRA is acheived and strategies are executed on time

- Manage the innovothan ( innovation ideas) program and ensure those ideas are curated and implemented

- Manage the quarterly award for SCM

- Work with SCM functional heads and define Employee SAT improvement plan and implenent them. Make functional Presentations to CHRO and CEO.

Procedures Compliance

- Ensure that the day to day activities comply with standards and performance measures set in the approved supply management Policy and Procedures

- Identify compliance issues promptly and propose corrective action

- Monitor actual performance against established targets, and identify areas of improvement as and when required