IBP Manager

Head of HSE, Horn of Africa

Payroll Analyst

Customer Quality Engineer

Head of Delivery Operations

Major Projects Director

Salesforce Support Engineer 

Key Account Manager - Automotive

Sales Director, Alliance Head

Head of HR

Responsibilities: Demand planning &amp; operations <ul><li>Owns the demand planning process, ensuring that it happens on a timely basis and all parties are compliant with the process.</li><li>Partner with the commercial teams to understand and drive key requirements along with timely visibility of opportunities and risks enabling timely decisions.</li><li>Manage the day-to-day relationship with the distributors from a planning point of view.</li><li>Responsible for delivering orders on time, forecast accuracy, OTIF and IBP KPIs. IBP process &amp; maturity progress</li><li>Work closely with IBP director on process maturity and IBP cycle</li><li>Implement it through process, tools, leadership, change management Partner with other functions in the Long-Term Planning</li><li>Supervise building blocks creation and work closely with finance during the budgeting process (Commercial, Supply &amp; Financial)</li><li>Proactive management of gaps &amp; risks/opps, follow thru to capture full value of initiatives or gaps Take part in IBP Monthly and Quarterly Operational Disciplines aligned to Playbook</li><li>Gap Management: Ensure monthly cadence, and bring one number across the system, identify gaps &amp; risks/opps, monthly review of KPI’s and improvement actions</li><li>S&amp;OE: enable S&amp;OE discipline with Demand and Customer Development leadership – ensuring visibility and action plans for sales and demand, connecting with Finance</li><li>Reconcile variables between Gap and S&amp;OE</li><li>Drive alignment to a single number signed off by country manager</li><li>As the IBP manager, you will lead the end-to-end planning of the entire portfolio for GULF markets from a demand and S&amp;OP perspective.</li><li>You will also be responsible to provide the commercial and finance teams with the right visibility of forecasts, opportunities, and risks so that the business can make informed decisions.</li><li>You will be key to drive a culture of growth and excellence, discipline, and accountability for the business objectives; promoting behaviors that support a one team approach to business planning.</li><li>The individual has an integrated perspective of the business, connecting dots and challenging solutions to ensure strategic alignment with the delivery of short- and long-term objectives with focus on E2E execution excellence.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Preferably Masters Degree in a Business/ Finance/ Engineering/ Bus-Related field</li><li>Must have commercial understanding – 1-2 yrs in customer facing role in Supply/Commercial</li><li>Experience in S&amp;OP or IBP process: Building fact-based plans or working with demand signals to optimize results in the market: 4-5 years minimum</li><li>English proficiency</li><li>Upto 7 years of related work experience in FMCG</li><li>Capabilities needed of leadership, structured and critical thinking, clear communication, and people skills, analytical</li></ul>

Role Description: <ul><li>To ensure that work processes are implemented as designed and comply with established policies, processes, and procedures.</li><li>Ensure compliance with both standard and regulatory requirements as relevant for all entities in the Horn of Africa.</li></ul> Responsibilities: <ul><li>Play a lead role in promoting and developing safe work culture that embraces zero harm through health, safety and environmental awareness by stimulating active involvement and interaction at all organizational levels.</li><li>Maintain the safety standards to be in compliance with company HSE policies and countries legislations.</li><li>Collate and analyse data for trend analysis &amp; statistics at regular intervals to achieve continual improvement on all aspects of HSE and related training of personnel.</li><li>Involve in high level investigation &amp; Investigate accidents effectively and determine root cause analysis along with project clients.</li><li>Identify and act upon opportunities for improvement to safety related matters.</li><li>Liaise with project managers / client / stakeholders as deemed necessary for discussion on project safety matters and resolve issues.</li><li>Drive and support the business in implementing HSE standards for contracts and suppliers through the HSE team in each business unit.</li><li>Provide advice and support to line management for conducting risk assessments and ensuring that operational risks are proactively and appropriately managed.</li><li>Overview and ensure proper adherence to ICAM procedure for incident investigations and implement effective control measures for closure of the gaps identified to prevent recurrence.</li><li>Evaluate and ensure emergency response preparedness through regular emergency mock drills and upkeep of the emergency response procedures.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Post Graduate qualification in Safety with at least 15 yrs work experience in the field of Safety Management and Training; OR</li><li>Graduate in any field with Diploma in Industrial Safety with at least 10 yrs work experience in Safety Management and Training; OR</li><li>Knowledge of ISO and other International Standards related to Quality, Environment and Occupational Health &amp; Safety</li><li>Lead Auditor certification in Quality Management System</li><li>Computer literate in Microsoft Office applications</li><li>Very good communication in English 	</li></ul>

Responsibilities:&nbsp; <ul><li>Provide effective and efficient on-site Payroll service ,contribute in company Philippine payroll and related programs (eg. tax, insurance, labor cost report, benefit programs) processing within established budgets, principles and regulations, laws and employment standards , manage the accurate and timely processing of payroll related activities.&nbsp;</li><li>Work with plant operations and T&amp;A colleague to ensure time &amp; attendance data smoothly flow into payroll process and ensure payroll accuracy&nbsp;</li><li>Responsible to employee’s query about payroll&nbsp;</li><li>Responsible to payroll related files documentation and ensure meet audit requirement&nbsp;</li><li>Act as advisor to business on country policies, local regulations and company policies, keep abreast of all Payroll regulatory related issues, foresee potential risk vs current practice and raise for discussion, drive for risk elimination to ensure compliance&nbsp;</li><li>Support HRBP to develop site pay policy/procedures</li><li>Responsible for audits and ensure accuracy and data integrity, implement related action plan as audit needs&nbsp;</li><li>Continuously review and enhance payroll processes/programs and implement improvement, manage global or regional payroll integration or harmonization program, promote global or regional payroll system at site and ensure the adoption rate .</li><li>Provide on-site HR services operations assigned by manager.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelor’s degree, human resources education or equivalent&nbsp;</li><li>7 years progressive payroll experience as independent Payroll Analyst&nbsp;</li><li>Familiarity with PH agencies such as SSS, PhilHealth, and Pag-ibig, as well as tax regulations (BIR).</li><li>Working experience in international enterprise&nbsp;</li><li>Good knowledge of country and local Payroll laws&nbsp;</li><li>Breadth of experience in Payroll disciplines, including data management, metrics and measurement&nbsp;</li><li>Proficient in MS Office (incl. Word, Excel and PowerPoint)&nbsp;</li><li>Experience with tax systems and reporting&nbsp;</li><li>Good service mindset and collaboration spirit&nbsp;</li><li>Experience with time and attendance systems preferred</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Quality point of contact for assigned Southeast Asia customer accounts.</li><li>Provide the Voice of the Customer feedback to product management, product engineering and manufacturing locations for characteristics that can become quality or application risks to the customer.</li><li>Manages Quality / Reliability interactions with the customer, including regular communication and escalations.&nbsp;</li><li>Provides technical support in evaluating products from a quality and reliability standpoint.</li><li>Leads cross-functional problem-solving teams to investigate quality issues and minimize customer impact, Company PPM, cost of poor quality and drive timely resolution.</li><li>nfluences without authority in efforts to achieve 5D/8D response time within 10 business days or less.&nbsp;</li><li>Responsible for coordinating and ensuring completion of customer quality requested activities across design and manufacturing. This includes coordinating globally for all sites, factories, and associated teams within company.&nbsp;</li><li>Carries out the customer quality improvement strategy.</li><li>Ensures compliance to company quality policies and procedures related to customer requirements.</li><li>Partners closely with sales, engineering, and operations to ensure organizational alignment regarding setting targets and achieving quality objectives for our customers.</li><li>Partners with engineering and sales to establish trust with our customers by sharing our DND strategic quality roadmap as well as resolving problems in a timely manner.</li><li>Regularly conducts reviews with key customers regarding DNDs quality &amp; delivery performance.</li><li>Drives systemic corrective action and continual improvement for customers through training and implementation and use an array of quality improvement tools.</li><li>Regularly reports to management on the overall performance and effectiveness of the assigned strategic customer account.</li><li>Manage quality issues or inquiries for parts in assigned Global Product Lines. The parts may be made at a company facility or at a sub-tier supplier.&nbsp;</li><li>Supports the MRB team functions for disposition of non-conforming products.</li><li>Visit local customers and travel within Southeast Asia to customer locations to review company product and application as it is being used by the customer and to foster productive working relationships.</li><li>Conduct audits at manufacturing sites and attend to customer audits.&nbsp;</li><li>Work with DC, Planner, Sales &amp; CCP on block stock &amp; RMA return.</li><li>Coordinate onsite sorting at customer site with Sales, Planner &amp; CCP.</li><li>Coordinate RMA request &amp; return with manufacturing.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelor Degree in Engineering with technical focus.</li><li>5+ years minimum quality assurance experience working in a global capacity.</li><li>Preferred customer quality experience in the electronics industry.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to lead teams, forge strong internal relationships, and drive transformation globally.</li><li>Knowledge and application of quality system regulations (ISO 9000, 14000 and 18000).</li><li>Experienced in the use of Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, 8D and other advanced statistical methods including Design of Experiments (DOE), Statistical Process Control (SPC), and Process Capability (CpK) techniques.</li><li>Possesses strong leadership skills and executive level presence.</li><li>Self-motivated, efficient, ability to work with little or no supervision, and committed to a team approach.</li><li>Strong interpersonal, organization, and project management skills.</li><li>Ability to prioritize responsibilities in a fast-paced work environment.</li><li>May require travel to customers and other company locations, including overnight and multi-day trips.</li><li>Experience in core processes such as stamping, molding, plating and assembly preferred.</li></ul>

Responsibilities: Safety and Quality: <ul><li>Proactively drive outstanding performance in Safety and Quality in Delivery Operations</li><li>Responsible for driving a culture of Safety and Quality throughout the organization</li></ul> Customers: <ul><li>Establish and promote service-minded culture and outside-in thinking in Delivery Operations</li><li>Capture and feed Voice of Customer throughout Delivery Operations</li><li>Ensure customer-centricity in all projects by understanding and serving customer needs and proactive communication throughout the project (i.e., transparency, flexibility, and dependability</li></ul> Management and people development: <ul><li>Contribute to strategic planning and decision-making at the executive level to develop and implement a strategy for Delivery Operations that align with the organization’s overall vision</li><li>and its current and long-term business objectives&nbsp;</li><li>Lead, evaluate, and develop the operations team(s) and professionals to achieve the established budget, safety, quality and customer satisfaction goals. Identify and address</li><li>competence development needs for Delivery Operations managers, project managers, supervisors and support functions Installation</li><li>Drive efficient, safe, and high-quality installation operations in line with company method</li><li>Ensure quality of resourcing and manage Installation capacity and competences</li></ul> Project Management: <ul><li>Ensure that company adds value to customers’ projects with seamless and reliable project delivery</li><li>Drive proactive identification and execution of value-add services and change order opportunities</li><li>Drive profitable, reliable and efficient project management practices in line with company met</li><li>Manage and develop required project management competences</li></ul> Delivery Operations management: <ul><li>Own company Way Delivery Operating model in the Unit</li><li>Ensure solid cross-functional Sales &amp; Operations Planning</li><li>Drive high-quality order book management (scheduling and revenue/cost forecasting)</li><li>Actively improve Sourcing &amp; Logistics performance with respective functions</li><li>Actively drive good co-operation, alignment and synchronization with relevant Supply Units</li></ul> Business performance: <ul><li>Set targets for Delivery Operations, follow business performance and give actionable feedback based on business metrics</li><li>Constantly identify gaps and improvement opportunities in sales volume, CMII and costs, and drive actions to improve business line performance</li><li>Establish operating budgets and monitor customer service, safety, quality and financial performance to optimize resources and priorities investments</li><li>Ensure effective deployment and benefit realization of company Way and local initiative</li><li>Provide input and feedback about changes needed to company Way</li></ul> Other <ul><li>May have the responsibility of Frontline Customer Solutions Engineering operations</li><li>May have the responsibility of Frontline Quality &amp; Environment operations</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related disciplines.</li><li>Have a good understanding about escalator and elevators.</li><li>Excellent in leadership management.</li><li>Good command of English.</li><li>Proven track record of P&amp;L, business planning &amp; controlling, budgeting and long term planning processes.</li></ul>

Responsibilities: Safety and Quality: <ul><li>Proactively drive outstanding performance in Safety and Quality in the Major Project Business, including New Building Solutions and Modernization Businesses.</li></ul> Customers: <ul><li>Drive and promote customer-centric culture with outside-in thinking in the business by intimate understanding of the customer and market needs.</li><li>Ensure early involvement with the customer in selling process and consultative selling approach with key stakeholders including, Developers, Architects and Consultants</li></ul> Drive solution selling across the Area: <ul><li>Promote utilization of voice of customer throughout the business Business performance</li><li>Holistic understanding, accountability and development of whole Major Project Business&nbsp;competitiveness, growth and profitability in full chain.</li><li>Evaluate the results of Major Project Business activities/contracts and identify recurring problems.</li><li>Establish Area level management practices driving key initiatives and programs for the Major&nbsp;Project Business. This includes share of market, OR growth, CMII, pricing and pre-to-post&nbsp;&nbsp;</li></ul> performance: <ul><li>Prepare recommendations and feedback about significant changes that need to be made to&nbsp;Offering portfolio and company Way operating model elements (i.e., processes, roles,&nbsp;</li><li>organization, IT tools, data, governance, business performance management) to improve efficient&nbsp;&nbsp;performance.</li><li>Collaborate with key Front Line leaders including Managing Director, MP head, NBS and&nbsp;&nbsp;Modernization directors as well as other functions such as operations to develop and achieve targets and close gaps across the Area.</li><li>Set Area level targets and plans aligned with global and Area ambitions.</li><li>Drive short and long-term competitiveness based on global company strategy.</li><li>Full-chain accountability of Major Projects Business competitiveness, growth and profitability.</li></ul> Business Development: <ul><li>Drive the Major Project Business sales and offering development and go-to-market actions in&nbsp;collaboration with other business stakeholders</li><li>Collaborate across the business for best practice sharing</li><li>Ensure compliance with business operating model and effective deployment of company Way&nbsp;&nbsp;Initiatives</li><li>Leadership / People management with team guidance and coaching</li><li>Contribute to strategic planning and decision-making at the executive level to develop and&nbsp;implement a strategy for Major Project Business that is aligned with the organization’s overall</li><li>vision&nbsp;and its current and long-term business objectives</li><li>Lead, evaluate, and develop the Major Project Business team and its professionals at Area and FL&nbsp;&nbsp;Level</li><li>Identify competence gaps and training needs to fulfil the business plan</li><li>Identify and develop key resources required to support early engagement, bid and execution&nbsp;</li><li>support including Customer Solution Managers and Infrastructure specialists</li></ul> Project Management – Major Projects: <ul><li>Guide and Support the Major Project PMO leader to own the Area Project Management&nbsp;&nbsp;Governance model with ongoing development and deployment</li><li>Assess and develop project management competence</li><li>Develop and coach Project Management people to effectively lead major projects with a focus on&nbsp;customer communication, quality, profit improvement and on-time delivery</li><li>Support FLs to identify and manage Project Management resources Leadership / People management</li><li>Contribute to strategic planning and decision-making at the executive level to develop and&nbsp;&nbsp;implement a strategy for Major Project Business that is aligned with the organization’s overall&nbsp;</li><li>vision and its current and long-term business objectives</li><li>Lead, evaluate, and develop the Major Project Business team and its professionals at Area and FL&nbsp;&nbsp;Level</li><li>Identify competence gaps and training needs to fulfil the business plan</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Approximately 10 years of relevant experience with at least 5 years of operating as a leader in an Area or large frontline</li><li>Track record in driving revenue growth and profitability by acquiring new customers and develop new businesses with existing clients.</li><li>Experience in pursuing and winning major construction projects.</li><li>A collaborative leader who appreciates teamwork across functions and regions.</li><li>Sound understanding of financial reports</li><li>Ability to impart knowledge to the frontlines / countries</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>The Application Support Analyst III will maintain, integrate and implement software applications within the organization.&nbsp;</li><li>In this role, you will perform complex software application testing, quality assurance, configuration, installation and support to ensure smooth, stable and timely implementation of new software and updates to installed applications.&nbsp;</li><li>Develop and recommend improvements to advanced and complex application support processes and procedures.&nbsp;</li><li>Review, analyze and prioritize incoming incident tickets and user requests.&nbsp;</li><li>Keep an open channel of communication with users and respond to advanced and complex application support requests and needs.</li><li>Review and performs the programming, configuration, testing and deployment of fixes or updates for application version releases.&nbsp;</li><li>Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.&nbsp;</li><li>Other duties as assigned</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Previously worked as an tech support, applications specialist or in another related role.</li><li>4 years of Salesforce experience and be comfortable doing basic Salesforce administration tasks such as user management, configuration and building reports and dashboards.</li><li>Computer proficiency, communication skills, analytical thinking, troubleshooting abilities, accuracy, and teamwork.&nbsp;</li><li>A Bachelors Degree in information technology or a similar field is often required by employers.</li></ul>

Role Description: <ul><li>Marketing and Selling electrical/electronic components to key customers in Automotive Industry.</li><li>ROLE OBJECTIVE We are looking to hire an experienced key account manager to maintain solid relationships with the companys key customers.</li><li>The key account managers responsibilities include growing the companys revenue by ensuring that key customers are satisfied with the services provided, identifying new business opportunities, and attending all meetings, conventions and training workshops.</li></ul> Responsibilities: <ul><li>Managing Key Accounts with strong customer relationships for long-term success</li><li>Building strategies to increase CPV’s by promoting value propositions thru design speck inn’s &amp; Competition replacements.</li><li>Respond on new RFQ’s and developing new sales opportunities</li><li>Tracking accounts targets and ensure increased sales</li><li>Analyze data and sales statistics and improve business and marketing strategies.</li><li>Mapping competition activities &amp; preparing SWOT analysis to build further strategies.</li><li>Compiling reports on account progress, goals, and forecasts for internal teams and stakeholders</li><li>Developing a thorough understanding of key customers requirements and propose customized solutions</li><li>Communicating as the main point of contact between key customers and internal teams to ensure that customer needs are met</li><li>Negotiating contracts with key customers and meeting established deadlines for the fulfillment of long-term goals</li><li>Managing &amp; motivating the team to achieve the desired outcomes</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>BE/ B.Tech (Electronics, Mechanical), MBA (preferred)</li></ul>

Responsibilities: Strategic Partnership Development:&nbsp; <ul><li>Identify, evaluate, and establish new partnerships that align with the organizations strategic goals.</li></ul> Relationship Management:&nbsp; <ul><li>Foster and maintain strong relationships with existing partners, ensuring mutual growth and success.</li><li>Identify deals through partners for growing the business.</li><li>Partnerships are required with SAP, ServiceNow, Salesforce, AWS, Microsoft</li></ul> Collaboration:&nbsp; <ul><li>Work closely with internal delivery and sales teams to ensure seamless integration and collaboration with partners, driving joint initiatives and programs.</li></ul> Negotiation:&nbsp; <ul><li>Lead negotiations and contracts with partners, ensuring beneficial terms and conditions for the organization.</li></ul> Market Research:&nbsp; <ul><li>Stay informed about industry trends, competitor activities, and market opportunities to inform partnership strategies.</li></ul> Marketing &amp; Promotion:&nbsp; <ul><li>Collaborate with the marketing team to develop and execute co-marketing campaigns and initiatives with partners.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Minimum 10 years professional alliance management work experience within IT Services/ System Integration companies (Accenture, Cognizant, Cap Gemini, NCS, TCS, Tech Mahindra or similar companies) in Singapore and South-East Asia</li><li>Solution selling experience as opposed to just transactional goods and services.</li><li>Hungry, motivated and self-driven</li><li>Proven Alliance and partnership executive experience, meeting or exceeding targets</li><li>Ability to communicate, present and influence all levels of the organization, including executive and C-level</li><li>Should have existing C level relationships that can be leveraged for opening new accounts</li><li>Hunting experience, combined with mining</li><li>Business degree or equivalent</li><li>Leadership: Ability to lead and inspire cross-functional teams and partners.</li><li>Strategic Thinking: Strong strategic mindset with the ability to see the big picture and drive long-term goals.</li><li>Negotiation: Skilled negotiator with experience in high-stakes discussions.</li><li>Collaboration: Team player who excels in collaborative environments.</li><li>Adaptability: Flexible and adaptable to changing circumstances and priorities.</li></ul>

Responsibilities: Strategic Leadership: <ul><li>Develop and implement HR initiatives aligned with the wider People strategy and overall business strategy.</li><li>Partner with the MD and senior leadership to drive organisational effectiveness</li><li>Act as a thought leader in HR practices to influence decision-making at the leadership level.</li></ul> Talent Management: <ul><li>Support acquisition strategies to attract top-tier talent, working with the local Resourcing team</li><li>Support the design and implementation of talent development programs to enhance employee skills and leadership capabilities.</li><li>Oversee performance management processes to foster a culture of high performance</li></ul> Employee Engagement and Culture: <ul><li>Drive initiatives to strengthen employee engagement and promote a positive work environment.</li><li>Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts.</li><li>Act as a steward of company culture, ensuring alignment with global values and local nuances.</li></ul> HR Operations and Compliance: <ul><li>Ensure compliance with local labour laws, regulations, and company policies.</li><li>Partner with global people operations teams to ensure alignment of processes and policies.</li><li>In partnership with global reward team colleagues manage compensation, benefits, and rewards frameworks in line with global standards and local requirements.</li></ul> Change Management: <ul><li>Lead HR efforts during organisational changes, including restructuring, mergers, and policy updates.</li><li>Support communication strategies to ensure smooth transitions during periods of change.</li><li>Stakeholder Management</li><li>Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including regional and global HR teams and relevant CoEs including Resourcing and Reward teams.&nbsp;</li><li>Act as a trusted advisor to the MD and leadership team on all people-related matters.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Strategic Thinking: Ability to align wider People / HR initiatives with long-term business goals.</li><li>Stakeholder Management: Strong influencing and relationship-building skills at all levels of the organisation.</li><li>Problem-Solving: Ability to navigate complex challenges with practical and effective solutions.</li><li>Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.</li><li>Adaptability: Comfortable operating in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.</li><li>Cultural Awareness: Sensitivity to cultural nuances in a global business setting.</li></ul> Experience: <ul><li>Demonstrable progressive HR experience, with significant experience in a senior HR leadership role.</li><li>Proven track record of operating in a standalone or matrixed HR environment.</li><li>Experience working within a global organisation, with exposure to multicultural environments.</li></ul> Knowledge: <ul><li>Deep understanding of Indian labour laws, employment practices, and HR trends.</li><li>Familiarity with global HR frameworks and best practices.</li></ul>

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