In your role, you will:

• Lead & manage supplier capacity & capability assessments involving:

• • Planning for supplier assessments: Prepare timelines, finalize logistics, initiate kickoff/ data requests, manage team resources & outline expectations.
  • Conducting capacity assessments: Assessment of overall plant capacity to manufacture the required item within the specified timelines
    • Demand planning: Assessment of supplier’s demand planning process (variables, forecast, frequency etc.), systems/tools used, communication etc. 
    • Sales & Operations planning: Evaluation of Sales & Operations governance process, planning horizon, stakeholders involved, budgeting, tools used etc.
    • Production & inventory planning: Assessment of supplier’s production/ inventory planning parameters, systems used, inventory levels, stakeholder coordination etc.
    • Procurement planning: Assessment of P2P workflows, processes, systems/ tools used etc.
    • Supplier management: Systems/ tools/ processes used for managing/ evaluating tier II/III suppliers.
  • Conducting capability assessments: Lead the team in conducting on-site assessments.
    • Manufacturing process: Evaluation of manufacturing process, throughput, process bottlenecks, asset utilization, productivity & adherence to regulatory standards
    • Systems: Assessment of systems/ processes used by suppliers to maintain/ improve efficiency –production scheduling, execution automation, deviation mgmt. etc.
    • People: Evaluation of supplier workforce competency and skillset
  • Compiling assessment outcomes: Oversee development of assessment deliverables, prepare management reports, finalize assessment scores & communicate findings.
  • Identify gaps and improvement opportunities for supplier’s supply chain processes & governance to improve planning and supplier performance.
  • Prepare and maintain a register of supplier risks, agreed corrective/ improvement actions, and follow-up & track improvement actions as an outcome of the assessment.
  • Collaborate with appropriate team members to track and resolve recurring supplier issues/ risks.

As our ideal candidate,

• You have more than 7 years of Supply chain & Operations experience, inventory planning or Industrial Engineering/Manufacturing
• You hold knowledge of key systems/ tools used in a planning environment – Sales forecasting, ERP, MRP, etc.
• You have excellent relationship management, negotiation & collaboration skills and demonstrated ability to link capability assessment outcomes to business bjectives
• You hold strong technical aptitude, with knowledge of MS Office applications (including SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Word)
• Up to 70 travel requirements