Manager Supply Chain LZA

• Be a single point of contact for all functional and administrative for LZA Supply Chain. Provide strategic leadership to implement standard processes, legal, ethics and compliance requirements.
• Drive employee engagements, training, career growth and succession planning for supply chain team.
• Plan the budget and be a cost center manager to optimize costs for Supply chain
• Create and implement standard operating processes for the enhancing process efficiency in order management system.

• Monitor, control and enhance distributor performance management system
• Monitor and maintain KPI for Tolling partners

• Engage with various business managers across LZA entity to get good understanding of specific customer requirements and creation of competitive service advantage for LZA.
• Increase customer engagement for enhancing LZA services and providing unique value-added service to customers.
• Engage with commercial team to explore service enhancement as well as new business development opportunities.
• With a global view, leading the organization to the best end-to-end processes practices by identifying areas for improvement (business inefficiencies, process governance issues, process gaps, maintain training materials, etc.)
• Collaborate with regional and functional leaders across the organization to explore process improvement opportunities.
• Identify and lead or collaborate on efforts to increase efficiency, including process improvement efforts, and automation and digitalization of various processes in close collaboration with the regional and functional leaders.
• Improve service levels in sample delivery as well as complaint management
• Create a realistic Annual/ monthly production plan based on sales forecast keeping into consideration manufacturing capacity and operational constraints
• Set Raw material and Finished goods stocking targets to help supply reliability improvement as well as working capital optimization.
• Execute MRP and develop a production schedule based on customer orders and short-term capacity.
• Engagement with team members from Commercial, manufacturing, Customer service and suppliers to Communicate changes, Propose solutions in case of availability issues, delays or production issues
• Raw material inventory replenishment using SAP's MRP: raise - update purchase orders.
• Review and maintain SAP master data integrity related to planning and inventory control; propose changes to master data to structurally improve planning efficiency.
• Achieve inventory control through close monitoring of DSI
• Lead overall cost control and planning efficiency.
• Partner with external toller for planning of raw material requirement as well as finished goods delivery

• Formal learning and work experience in leading handling/ Supply chain activities including Demand/supply planning, customer service, Import/export compliance, logistics management etc.
• Knowledge and experience of working on E-Commerce platform.
• This role is expected to contribute on individual level as well as lead the team on projects.

• Graduate Degree in Engineering from reputed University / Institution
• MBA Degree in Operations/Supply chain from reputed university

• Minimum 15 years of experience in leading and managing supply chain functions
• Experience in handling team of professionals.
• Proficiency in SAP S4 HANA

• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to engage and influence global teams
• Ability to handle team of supply chain professionals

• Collaborates (Locally & Globally) Build Relationships
• Seeks new and better approaches to work (Analytical abilities)
• Result Orientation (Planning)
• Drives Innovation

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