Manager - Sourcing & Supply Chain Management - Manufacturing

Responsibility :

- Lead our next phase of development into a world-class, high-performing, manufacturing organization with a strong focus on material sourcing, inventory management, and logistics.

- Work cross functionally to plan, develop, and execute company goals, objectives, and compliance measures.

- Source and develop your team to drive a caring and high-performing culture.

- Establish and build strong supplier partnerships and networks that ensure innovation and sustainable positive material cost development.

- Build a robust material management and planning process that is linked with our production model.

- Ensure transparent monitoring and control of inventory across the whole organization to drive profitability and ensuring product availability.

- Continuously assess and reduce our supply risks in a profitable manner.

- Continuously improve processes relevant to the function while ensuring compliance.

Functional Expertise :

- Skilled at inventory, material management, logistics, and supplier development best practices.

- Experience with the financial impact of inventory flows, and managing the conflict between inventory and product availability.

- Highly skilled at modelling large volumes of data, drawing structured conclusions, and visualizing results in Excel or professional data visualization software.

- Experienced with statistical modelling techniques and tools.

- Should be curious to learn new businesses, new customers, and to understand the customer needs as they change short- and long-term.

- Should be familiar with the key productivity & financial drives of a manufacturing unit and are able to get into the details while keeping an eye on the big picture.

- Should be able to show and coach team members how to integrate KPI-s into the - big picture.

- Should be a SAP expert and process expert or a data modelling expert.

Non-Negotiable Criteria :

- Minimum 5-10 years of experience working in operations and leading teams

- Minimum B.Tech in Mechanical, Industrial, Operations, or related engineering; MBA is extremely desirable, ideally in Operations

- Demonstrate leadership skills to work as a team leader, and a strong process orientation

- Strong project management and coaching skills

- Experienced in & exposure to world-class-manufacturing methods

- A Ph.D in Operations would be considered if the candidate has the required mindset, basic analytical skills, and some industry experience.