Supply Chain Manager - Chemical - IIM/FMS/NITIE

Leading Chemical Company 1000 Crores

Experience : 4-8 years

Education : BE+MBA Premier Institutes only (IIM, FMS, NITIE, MDI, JBIMS, SP Jain )

Reporting to : Head of Supply Chain/COO

Responsibilities:

- Define and manage supply chain strategies for the company

- Manage and optimize the Supply Chain in co-operation with marketing team, logistics team and other business partners

- Carry out production planning/master scheduling activities, including order management, resource planning, delivery promising (ATP management), and production forecasting and reporting of actual manufacturing results vs. plan. Provide back up to certain planning functions.

- Implement best practice process and organization for planning. Continuously optimize planning, order to cash processes

- Define and ensure implementation of measures to fulfill Net Working Capital Budget

- Responsible for inventory and availability (raw materials, intermediates and local finished and traded products)

- Continuous improvement of slow-movers and dead stocks

- Translate the marketing forecast into resource requirements to assess team capabilities versus forecast requirements. This includes material requirements planning based on the forecast.

- Measure and compare actual production results against the production plan and forecast.

- Responsible for Operations Review Meeting (capacity, production, shipments) and explanation of changes.

- Facilitate adjustments to ATP as required to reflect actual plant performance and realized production rates. Identify adjustments needed in resource allocations based on such changes.

- Define and implement supply chain cost savings measures in collaboration with Regional Marketing and Sales and Regional Logistics. Continuously optimize regional network according to business needs

- Serve as a lead for all supply chain Black/Green Belt projects that are performed within the department. Determine scope of improvement projects; initiate and lead improvement projects as necessary. Develop reports and analysis for continuous improvement.

- Lead new system implementation projects and initiatives within Supply Chain department

- Use strong system skills and business knowledge to examine the effectiveness of supply chain operations and to communicate conclusions.

- Analyze internal and external processes (benchmarking) to maximize efficiency of function and systems.

- Degree in supply chain or APICS certification preferred

- Prior supervisory experience

- Knowledge and understanding of Manufacturing Execution Systems and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Knowledge & experience of SAP and in-depth understanding of Excel, PowerPoint

- Experience, training or certification of Lean and/or Six Sigma/Performance Excellence. Green Belt certification preferred.

Essential skills required to do this job:

- Strong analytical abilities, with attention to detail.

- Demonstrated decision making and problem solving skills

- Comprehensive PC skills

Additional desired skills:

- Ensure efficient functional and operational structure and task delegation interfacing globally in a global organization.

- Project management know-how and hands-on use and roll out experience of SAP (or equivalent ERP system) in the areas of demand planning, inventory planning, master planning, procurement and scheduling

- Experience in leading and managing a business support team