Senior Manager – Supply Chain

Key Responsibilities

Leadership:

• Lead the supply chain team in G-ECO India to achieve defined business targets.
• Coach and develop the team based on the development needs and performance evaluation.
• Improve the supply chain capability, reliability, efficiency, and agility of the team to enable profitable business growth.

Supply Chain Strategy:

• Devise and implement supply chain strategy which is aligned with the G-ECO business strategy and supply chain strategy.
• Translate the relevant business needs to interdependent supply chain activities.

Supply Chain Processes:

• Design and implement the end-to-end supply chain processes (Demand & Supply Planning, Production Scheduling, Purchase-To-Pay, Make-To-Inventory, Order-To-Cash).
  Collaborate closely with the relevant business stakeholders to ensure smooth information flows and logistics flows of all types of materials, and to respond effectively and efficiently to customer needs.
• Move from manual-based operations to system-based and implement the digitalization roadmap. Ensure supply chain related data including master data is properly maintained in SAP.
• Drive for continuous improvement in processes and technology along the supply chain.
• Lead and organize S&OP meeting.

Performance Management:

• Design and implement a customer service performance management system to track the service levels (including delivery capability and delivery reliability, NCM), as well as a supplier performance management system to manage the logistics services (including warehousing, transportation, and imports/exports).
• Monitor supply chain performance via KPIs, identify potential drawbacks, take corrective measures, and drive continuous improvement.
• Establish partnership relationship with selected customers/distributors/suppliers/tollers.

Cost Management:

• Optimize service levels and logistics costs, with full regulatory compliance.
• Develop annual cost budget plan.
• Proactively look for efficiency gains, operational excellence, and cost savings opportunities to contribute to the company’s profitability and a sustainable competitive position for BASF.

Inventory Management:

• Establish and implement inventory control procedures to maintain optimal stock level to fulfil customers’ needs, at optimal warehousing cost and working capital cost.
• Manage dysfunctional and slow-moving stock proactively to minimize working capital cost and avoid inventory scrapping.

Risk Management:

• Identify and assess all potential risks in the supply chain.
• Develop risk mitigation and contingency plans.
• Monitor risks and measures and review overall risk management on a regular basis.

Collaboration:

• Maintain strongly collaborative working relationship with:
• Internal business partners: Key Account Management, Marketing, Production, Customization, QM/QC, Controlling, Procurement, Supply Chain Platform, EHS, Site Management, EC supply chain in other countries/regions, other ODs who are EC’s suppliers, platforms, shared service centres; and
• External business partners: suppliers, tollers, logistics service providers
• Exchange best practices with other supply chain organizations outside India

Qualification & Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Logistics or related fields (required); Master’s degree in Business Management (preferred)
• Minimum 10 years of working experience in supply chain management
• Minimum 5 years of solid leadership experienc
• Sound supply chain knowledge and experience (APICS CPIM certification preferred)
• Excellent organizational and communication skills
• Excellent leadership skills
• Able to communicate in English fluently
• System/tool experience: SAP, Microsoft Office, Dashboard, AI

Benefits

At BASF, we care for our employees and prioritize their well-being in all of it´s dimensions. ​Our Total Compelling Offer aims to provide the best solutions, benefits, and opportunities for our employees to achieve a better version of themselves in every aspect of their lives.

• We offer competitive compensation and opportunities to build on it with additionals, such as merit increases and incentive pay.
• We care for our employees’ health, we support them and their families with benefits that meet their physical, emotional, social, and financial needs. We want them to achieve a harmonized work-life balance, to be able to excel at work and in their personal life.
• We prioritize personal and professional growth, providing a broad range of challenging assignments, training, different career paths, and the opportunity for cross-organizational moves both locally and globally.
• We want our employees to feel comfortable being themselves at work bringing their unique viewpoints, enriching our culture and ensuring a diverse and successful workplace​.