Supply Chain Senior Manager

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Job details

Company overview

One of the world's largest manufacturers and distributors of confectionery .

Responsibilities

SCM Strategy and policy:

• Design and drive strategy to achieve supply chain goals of customer service levels, supply chain cost, distributor inventory as well as quality goals.
• Manage operational efficiency at local copackers including capacity planning and the assets
• Business partnering with Management team to achieve sales and profit goals
• Strategic collaboration with distributors on Service, cost, inventory, waste reduction
• Partnership with their owned plants in Asia on Japan supply requirements, long range plans, quality and process improvements
• Own the supply chain budget for fiscal, be involved in country yearly sales target setting process and KPIs
• Lead supply chain network optimization projects including sourcing location changes from one country to another

Achieve overall volume and profit objectives:

• In conjunction with MD, Quality & Operations, Marketing and Trade Marketing team deliver overall plan objectives Work together with local marketing team & the factories for timely management of NPD.

Logistics – International:

• Ensure customer order fulfillment on time and in full
• Ensure logistics lead times from factory to Japan are in line with customer expectation
• Review and approve import requirements , modes of transport and spends 
• Sign off on urgent shipments or airfreight, ensure alignment of management team and distributors

Planning:

• Design and drive S&OP process with Japan management team and collaborative forecasting with Japan distributors, improve forecast accuracy
• Review and approve local co-packing production and material plans with suppliers
• Manage communication around production constraints, allocation management
• Work together with Customer Service/Supply Chain teams of their factories, local co-packers & RM/PM suppliers to coordinate supply chain (forecasting, ordering, production planning, shipments, inventory)

Requirements

• University degree
• 10 years+ of relevant Supply Chain management in leading consumer packaged goods (preferably multinational) companies within Japan.
• NPD experiences such as recipe, packaging, palletisation development, & knowledge of regulatory from R&D point of view
• Exposure to manufacturing environment preferred, either in operations or in production planning/line scheduling
• 3 years experience in handling quality issues
• Ability to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, especially distributor, influence without positional power with other functions
• Ability to lead and drive initiatives, work independently with minimum supervision
• Ability to communicate effectively with different levels within the organisation both in English and Japanese, spoken and written
• Attention to detail, ability to handle complexity and large volumes of data/information, strong analytical skills
• Flexible and can adapt quickly to changes in business context
• Basic understanding of manufacturing processes, equipment types and line capabilities
• Clear understanding of Japan consumer quality requirements

Salary

10 - 14 million yen

Location

Tokyo