Supply Chain Manager

For more than 80 years, our client’s engineers and product specialists have partnered with customers to produce highly engineered connectivity and sensing solutions that make a connected world possible. Their focus on reliability, durability, and sustainability exemplifies their commitment to progress. The unmatched range of their product portfolio enables companies, large and small, to turn ideas into technology that can transform how the world works and lives tomorrow.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze forecast signals from the Demand Planning team to generate an optimized build plan while ensuring effective communication across extended supply chain.
• Lead the MPS function to optimize the production plan with the aim to support customer demand, optimize production utilization and balancing inventory in a targeted manner.
• Lead the Material Planning team ensuring implementation of production plan of work centers, machines, or processes to meet customer requests.
• Monitor MRP system setup, identify capacity constraints and proactively expand drive capacity to avoid supply and demand gaps.
• Ensure appropriate parameter settings, system settings and system usage.
• Lead the Materials Analyst team ensuring the right amount of material is procured within the appropriate timing.
• Develop standards for materials management including appropriate levels of safety stock, in-process inventory, and finished goods.
• Handles the disposition of obsolete inventories according to the company’s policy. 
• Oversee and supervise physical inventories.
• Active participation in monthly Supply Review Meeting, identifying risks and opportunities and ensuring necessary proactive measures are taken to close gaps to meet budgets.
• Develop new and existing relationships with suppliers.
• Coordinate information flow between planning, warehouse, and production teams.
• Lead, manage, motivate, and develop Supply chain team.
• Proactively approach other functions within Demand Planning, Customer Service and Supply Chain for end-to end optimization.
• Accountable for the timely and accurately execution at the shipping and receiving areas.
• Track and control supply chain KPIs including corrective measure to management on regularly base.
• Improve the overall supply chain performance and look for any possible innovations to the process.

Requirements:

What your background should look like:

• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years’ Supply Chain / Materials Planning experience, including 3+ years in a leadership role.
• People with no degree, but equivalent level of qualification in relevant disciplines, will also be considered.
• Experience in working with ERP systems and other IT systems at customer interface, e.g. SAP,  EDI.
• Experience with high mix, low volume manufacturing.
• Good communication skills, able to build customer relations and win customers for own ideas.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Process Improvement.

Competencies:

• Motivating Others.
• Building Effective Teams.
• Managing and Measuring Work.
• Values: Integrity, Accountability, Inclusion, Innovation, Teamwork.
• SET: Strategy, Execution, Talent (for managers).