Deputy Manager- Supply Planning

What you’ll do:

Essential responsibilities:

1. People Management:

a) Has prior team management experience in the Materials Management domain plus managing Excellent communication, customer service, and interpersonal skills necessary to converse with diverse group of stakeholders including senior management, operations and Supply Chain Management personnel

Proven Track record in driving Continuous Improvement projects.

Influencing Skills and Critical Thinking

b) Should lead team by an example, Guide, drive, motivate & engage team to deliver on all key functional expectations such as Supplier OTD, VMI Min-max performance, Logistics cost reductions & DOH improvements

c) Should forge relations at all levels, collaborate internally with different teams, externally with suppliers/customers & work in the matrix reporting structures.

d) Understands and appreciates diversity of approaches and opposing perspectives on issues and adapting one’s approach to changing requirements & situations.

e) Shall own end to end responsibility of the team including Performance assessment, Team Career growth, assessing their skill set and mapping the training needs, Finance budget and forecast, Attrition mitigation etc

2.Customer Engagement and Satisfaction: – Drive customer engagement and satisfaction by meeting customer expectations and needs, build customer facing KPIs, voice of customer thru periodic meetings and ensuring timely resolution to customer queries/feedback etc. To plan, schedule and manage the defined business services, delivering to agreed timescales, budget, quality criteria and commitments

3.Continuous Improvement: To demonstrate a practical approach to continuous improvement of the processes which directly manage the delivery of our services & Champions Continuous Improvement projects to improve productivity of the team.

Qualifications:

Graduate in Engineering or any other Equivalent

13 to 15 years of relevant experience into Materials Planning, Inventory Optimization Control.

Excellent communication, customer service, and interpersonal skills necessary to converse with diverse group of stakeholders including senior management, operations and Supply Chain Management personnel

Proven Track record in driving Continuous Improvement projects.

Influencing Skills and Critical Thinking