Supply Chain Excellence Manager

Your Tasks

• Identify and implement best practices to drive process improvements, elevate service levels, and enhance inventory turnover in alignment with strategic goals.
• Develop supply chain dashboards per Beiersdorf's global standards and ABP-linked KPIs.
• Analyze workflows to eliminate non-value-added activities and streamline operations.
• Collaborate with the Supply Chain Director on KPI reviews, dashboards, budget management, cost control, and IT automation projects.
• Design and deploy key demand and supply planning processes aligned with business goals.
• Train and mentor the planning community on effective process and tool usage.
• Lead S&OE rollout in India with blueprint creation and workflow mapping.
• Drive change management with commercial and operations teams to support continuous improvement.
• Serve as an APO business expert ensuring operational excellence.
• Design and optimize a primary delivery transportation network to minimize total delivered cost.
• Lead SAP-WMS implementation with RLMs and LSPs to achieve logistics KPIs.
• Build strong, cost-effective vendor partnerships by transportation lane.
• Ensure >98% compliance in timely transit and vehicle placement.
• Establish warehouse excellence using value stream mapping and lean management.
• Initiate cost-saving projects to maintain quality supply and drive innovation.
• Define safety and quality standards for warehouses with the Regional Logistics team.
• Develop SOPs to maintain inventory accuracy and resolve location-wise issues.
• Build RLM capabilities for effective regional demand planning execution.
• Develop metrics to evaluate planning tools like MRP and CRP.
• Conduct logistics cost-benefit analyses to optimize service levels by channel (GT, MT, E-com, CSD/CPC).
  

Your Profile

For This Pivotal Role, You Should Bring

• A rich background with at least 4-5 years of solid post-MBA experience in supply chain arena, ideally experienced in a significant FMCG or FMCD organization.
• A comprehensive understanding of the Indian logistics environment encompassing warehousing, transportation, planning complexities, and exposure to contemporary supply chain IT tools and solutions.
• Demonstrated experience and capability in leading major supply chain IT initiatives that have successfully translated into operational efficiencies and optimization of resources.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills matched with a proactive mindset to drive process improvements across supply chain operations.
  

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