Skechers India - Senior Manager - Process Excellence & Audit

We at Skechers India , are hiring for the position of Senior Manager - Process Excellence and Audits to be based at our New Distribution Centre, Taloja.

Please find below job details :

Position: Senior Manager - Process Excellence and Audits

Department : Supply Chain & Logistics

Location : Taloja

Education : Ideal candidate: Industrial Engineering graduate with Six-sigma certification from reputed college, preferably NITIE, VJTI or 10 to 12 Years experience in Business Excellence

Experience :

- Supply Chain professional with 7-8 years of exposure to warehouse operations, Business excellence, Project life cycle management, contracting & project planning.

- Experience of building a large DC from concept to Go-Live.

- Experience from Automotive, Large 3PL organizations and e-commerce background who has exposure to smart warehousing process improvement and audits will be preferred.

Job Description :

- Be part of Setting-up & Core Team Managing and driving operations excellence and continuous improvement projects

- Process implementation, Change Management, Conduct KPI performance trend analysis

- Design and ensure successful implementation of business/ operations

- Energize teams and stakeholders, collect data, conduct diagnostic analysis, identify opportunities that positively impact quality, cost, delivery excellence, and customer satisfaction, and present action plan to management

- Select and implement need based and appropriate quality tools such as TQM, Quality Circles, Kaizen, 5-S, problem solving, statistical techniques and several other tools for continuous improvement.

- Create the necessary governance and review mechanisms to drive transactional quality

- Conduct KPI performance trend analysis, identify quality improvement opportunities, and drive improvement initiatives using the appropriate quality tools

- Identify opportunities for Quality Improvement projects; create a pipeline of improvement projects; provide necessary coaching and guidance to run these projects to deliver value additions.

- Process Re-Engineering to drive operations centricity, efficiency, effectiveness, agility & reliability in SCM.

- Identification & Resolution of key Business Challenges and enabling teams to address & manage the challenges to achieve Customer Satisfaction and Cost Optimization to maximize profit .

- Establishing & managing corporate infrastructure for Business Excellence which includes team capability

- Continuously improve existing process and help teams design new processes that are robust, effective, and efficient

- Managing Organization wide Training & Development of Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt, Green Belt, Black Belt

- Identify key Business Challenges and enabling teams to address & manage the challenges to achieve Customer Satisfaction, Profit Maximization & Cost Optimization.

- Stake Holders & Change Management to deploy To-Be efficient & Complaint Processes in all domains.

- Lead & mentor project teams thereby creating a value proposition for businesses through improved return on Investment.

Core Competencies

- Supply Chain Management, Six Sigma Black Belt, Warehouse Operations, Process analysis, adaptability to new systems understanding of specifications of warehouse equipments, storage Infra, electricals, Warehouse & Engineering layouts.

- Continuous process and quality improvement systems, design, develop and implement performance measuring reporting, Design SOPs, and process audits.

- Lead improvement initiatives by enlisting and influencing cross-functional teams that deliver tangible business results through the application of Lean and Six Sigma principles, methodologies and tools.

Skill Sets

- Supply Chain Orientation, warehouse operations, process, infrastructure specifications and understanding

- Provide thoughtful leadership and advice to management on process improvement and in developing transformational business cases

- Know-how of process mapping, process analysis, and detailed operations understating

- Gap analysis, designing SOPs, as-is and to-be

- Experience in capacity building templates for performance measuring reporting, and continuous improvement systems with good exposure to automation, WMS, TMS warehouse operations

- Excellent communication skills (oral and written) in Marathi, Hindi and English, as well as a strong credibility and integrity in this domain