Supply Chain Head - FMCG

Supply Chain Head - FMCG

- The role would be responsible for establishing a clear and effective business ownership for Supply Chain processes within the organization to ensure adherence of the defined standards and key deliverable will be :

- Leading the demand and inventory management processes and ensuring they are capable of meeting agreed business targets

- Engage and lead operations planning and generate demand planning in sync with annual business plan

- Working very closely with production planning, manufacturing and sourcing teams to meet sales forecast as per the plan

- Inventory and Replenishment automation by deploying tools like TOC methodology.

- Analyzing work flow, OTIF, planned order, Resource Optimization, Order loss, RCCP & schedule customer order based on material availability, machine capacity and constraints.

- Managing Warehouse facilities and Distribution operations to ensure availability of products to fulfill customer orders in a timely manner from both the central and branch, warehouses in accordance with optimal supply planning.

- Maintaining the inventory at optimal levels / targeted DSI (Day Sales Inventory) including safety stocks analysis

- Reviewing the material and production lead time on a scheduled basis together with Sourcing, Production and Quality Control

- Developing demand and inventory policy through analysis of all supply chain factors

- Generating short/medium term net requirements and negotiating supply plan with international suppliers

- Maintaining all products within agreed inventory parameters to ensure continuity of supply

- Ensuring demand analysis and consumption tracking is carried out on behalf of the business

- Negotiating supply delivery to enable Sales to expedite order fulfillment

- Providing financial and volume projections of inventory to supplement decision-making, and presenting the implications to the business.

Skills and Attributes :

- 2-3 + years of experience in heading Supply Chain with a FMCG/ Consumer product company

- MBA Ops Management / SCM

- Development of integrated sales, forecasting and planning processes.

- Experience of working with SAP essential

- Sharp Negotiation skills

- Global sourcing exposure preferred

Key Interactions :

Internal :

- Channel Leads

- Collaboration with marketing team

- Manufacturing & Production Team

- Procurement & Supply Chain

- Commercial and Finance Teams