L'Oreal - Supply Chain Manager - Modern Trade

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We have a suitable opportunity in the Supply Chain Division for the position of a Manager - Modern Trade Supply Chain. In this Individual Contributor Role, you are expected to drive effective inventory management, Online availability of stock, vendor relationships, operational and supply-chain excellence. The individual should be a champion of automation and is expected to take data driven decisions. You should be able to do root cause analysis to recommend process improvements. You should have minimum 2 years of professional experience. The location of the job will be in Mumbai.

Key Responsibilities:

- Deliver maximum product availability in the category ensuing healthy inventory level and optimal supply chain set-up for the Customers

- Manage catalogue, align with Customers and Commercial teams, and contribute to its rationalization

- Analyse the Order to Cash Execution metrics for the Customers to improve efficiency of our order execution process

- Work closely with the Customer leadership and our Commercial teams to plan availability of Promotions and launches, and for campaigns & events

- Prepare and analyse supply chain metrics to improve efficiency of our inventory position, including management of slow moving and obsoletes

- Work closely with Customer leadership and/or operations senior leaders on strategies to reduce cost, lead time, and waste across the end-to-end supply chain

- Lead ModernTrade Supply Chain transformation projects with related zone Supply Chain Experts, and Business function Experts (in Digital and Commercial teams)

- To create long-term category solutions that automate or simplify category processes - Identify opportunities to enhance relationships with key or strategic customers

- Will be involved in Negotiation of operational changes with customers in partnership with Key Account Manager to drive supply chain improvements

Key Competencies:

- Understanding of end to end supply chain processes including order to cash

- The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with a high level of proactiveness, flexibility and commitment to anticipate issues and solve for it

- Candidate needs to be the face of supply chain team for the accounts he/she is handling and be able to take decisions in consultation with the leadership of the division/function

- Possesses strong analytical and numerical skills with strong experience of Excel, including Macros, V-Lookups and Pivot Tables

Physical Demands (e.g. % travel): MT client sites (less than 10%)

Education: MBA from premier institute