Global Supply Chain Excellence Manager

ABOUT FILTRONA

Filtrona is the only global, independent market leader in the design, testing and manufacturing of specialist filter solutions and related scientific services. With a head office in Singapore, Filtrona has 8 manufacturing facilities across Europe, America, and Asia, together with 2 innovation centres, an accredited laboratory and a Centre of Excellence focused on sustainability. The company has 2,000 employees serving customers across 120 countries.

Our purpose is to support partners to transform and benefit from business growth; we succeed when they succeed. Our mission is to be a responsible, customer-focused innovation leader creating excellence in sustainable solutions for today and tomorrow.

For more information, please visit www.filtrona.com

Role and Responsibilities

The Global Supply Chain Excellence Manager is responsible for developing capability within the Supply Chain functions (Planning, Customer Service, Warehousing, Transportation) and lead strategic initiatives to drive improvement in the areas of service, inventory, and cost. This role is also responsible for standardizing and streamlining the Supply and Demand processes across the global/regional/site teams.

Job Description

• Own the overall tracking and continuous improvement of key supply chain metrics (OTIF, lead time, inventory, cost-savings).
• Develop and review OTIF glidepath with right systemic action plans put in place
• Own overall inventory management process, including inventory glidepath forecasting and driving actions to improve inventory turns, minimize obsolescence, scrap, and aged inventories
• Drive supply chain continuous improvement initiatives, value stream mapping and loss analysis to identify opportunities to reduce cost/cash.
• Implement best practices in Planning, Customer Service, Warehouse and Transportation
• Interface with regional teams to streamline and standardize all supply chain roles with right skills matrix for talent development
• Drive automation of supply chain work processes, including implementation of new software/tools
• Plan and execute Health Checks for all supply chains

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Degree in Supply Chain/Logistics, Engineering or Business
• Minimum 8-10 years working experience in supply chain (including strong understanding of ERP)
• Strong leadership and team management skills
• Excellent understanding of demand forecasting and supply planning concepts and proven ability to execute these
• Proven ability to consistently improve performance in the areas of service level improvement, inventory reduction or cost reduction/saving
• Strong communication skill and business understanding
• Fluent in spoken and written English
• Basic understanding of local export/import regulations and custom brokerage processes
• Strong understanding of ERP systems and supply chain master data requirements
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word and Powerpoint