Senior Supply Chain Specialist

3 days ago

Waterford, Waterford, Ireland beBeeSupplyChain Full time €72,000 - €96,000

Job Overview

The Supply Chain Manager will develop and implement a supply chain that supports commercial objectives and delivers a best-in-class service to customers.

Key Responsibilities

  • Production Planning: driving on-time delivery of finished goods, managing inventory, and optimizing all shipping/customer services activities.
  • Manage Plant Supply Chain activities with a focus on achieving the targeted OTIF for customer deliveries or deliveries to other plants as requested by internal/external customers.
  • Balance financial targets, production targets, and customer service requirements.
  • Manage ordering of raw materials to ensure timely supply to production departments for in-time production as scheduled.
  • Continuously monitor major KPIs (OTIF, Schedule Adherence, Inventory DOS, Late List, Lead Time), analyze deviations, and implement improvement actions.
  • Lead and develop the Planning and Warehousing teams.
  • Manage appropriate inventory levels for raw materials, semi-finished, and finished goods.
  • Build an agile Supply Chain approach with flexible shift models, processes for higher flexibility, and related actions.
  • Ensure production planning is carried out in SAP.
  • Regularly review SCM Master Data Settings in SAP and MES.
  • Collaborate with Production and Quality to maintain high customer service levels.
  • Support target setting and forecasting for plant output, cost absorption, inventory, and shipment planning.
  • Conduct capacity planning and modelling to identify pinch points and take corrective actions.
  • Develop a local S&OP process to guide site operations.
  • Coordinate with other West plants to identify and realize synergies; contribute to budget creation and control for the area of responsibility.
  • Create reports and analyses for Plant Management or Corporate Functions to support Budget, Review, and Planning Meetings.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Business Engineering, SCM, or relevant field.
  • Master's degree preferred.
  • At least 7 years of experience in a relevant Supply Chain function.
  • Experience in leading Supply Chain teams.
  • Experience with Lean Manufacturing concepts and approaches, with focus on production planning.
  • Excellent analytical and conceptual skills.
  • Design and application knowledge of SAP supply chain tools, with emphasis on SAP ERP.
  • Supply Chain optimization along the Product Life-Cycle.
  • Target-driven and result-oriented.
  • Experience in a cGMP environment.
  • Strong IT competence.
  • Good verbal and written communication skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to work with all levels within the organization, suppliers, customers, and external contractors.
  • Team player.

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