OVERVIEW OF POSITION: Responsibility for overseeing all aspects of Sales & Operations Planning including Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Supply Point Coordination, and Inventory Mgmt.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THIS POSITION:Management - 15%- Manage Procurement and Supply Chain processes.
- Responsible for management of all inventories.
- Manage carrier performance program.
- Achieve desired economies of scale by consolidating vendors, suppliers and resources.
- Create individual and departmental development plans.
- Develop planning group vision and recruit new personnel.
- Liaise with Accounts Payable Department to ensure accurate and timely payment of invoices, as necessary for the business with the supplier.
Sales & Operations Planning - 25%- Develop and maintain process for material forecasting
- Create and maintain balance between supply and demand.
- Create, interpret, and report on Key Performance Indicators.
- Analyze and outline deviations from targets and plans (gap analyses).
- Provide input as to product enhancements and/or new product development.
Demand Planning - 15%- Responsible for creating/maintaining demand plan review.
- Responsible for aligning the demand plan with the S&OP outcome.
- Challenge input from market intelligence in forecast demand.
- Monitor macro trends in supplier and contract base and implement plans to react.
- Oversee corporate reporting.
- Responsible for SKU classification in demand segmentation.
Supply Planning - 15%- Meet service level framework agreement with suppliers.
- Implement procurement strategy and policies.
- Ensure visibility of forward supply and inventory plan.
- Manage excess stock, minimize write offs.
- Maintenance of the ISO Qualified Supplier Evaluation Program.
- Monitor capacity planning.
- Prepare purchase requisitions, approve and issues purchase orders in accordance with company policy and negotiated terms and conditions.
- Manage phasing-in and phasing-out of products.
- Set long term strategy based on consumption trends.
- Oversee the notice, registration, scheduling and requests for the import of product portfolio.
Projects - 30%- Initiate and roll out SOP best practices and manage SOP enhancement projects.
- Identify and agree upon supply chain improvements projects.
- Develop creative analytic reporting for forecasting and inventory management.
- Continually develop expertise to support growth for new projects.
- Assist in performing distribution optimization study.
- Develop inventory deployment capability.
COMPETENCIES/SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE OR TRAINING PREFERRED: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements/preferences listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Required - Bachelor Degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business Admin.
- Required - 8 to 10 years of Supply Chain Planning, Forecasting, Production Scheduling, Inventory Deployment, Supply Chain Network Design and Project Management experience.
- Required - 3 to 5 years people management.
- Required - Experience using Windows, Office, Word, Excel, ERP/CRM Systems
- Required - International Supply Chain Management - Customs Agency.
