Job Purpose:
Main Responsibilities
Work hand-in-hand with Strategic Sourcing team on leading the development of sourcing strategy and supply chain strategy for key strategic Food and Non-Food categories for both short to long term competitive advantages.
• Work on deriving short-medium term sourcing strategies include identifying make/buy decision, fixed/float contract commercial strategy, period and frequency of sourcing decision, which enable competitive advantage to the business through cost optimization, supply sustainability, and supply flexibility. Any decision making would require structural business case justification.
• Lead implementation with successful change management on strategic supply model and strategic supply chain solution through working in collaboration with both internal parties and external partners from Brand, Planning, Sourcing, Raw Material Suppliers, Processing Suppliers, to Logistics for both medium- and long-term supply sustainability.
• Supervise and coach team on daily problem solving to ensure the root cause analysis and strategic solutioning have been thought through to prevent all interruption to the business, and all further issue repetition; including but not limited to
o Sourcing, contract review, price negotiation, sale
o Product launch
o Supply fulfilment for both domestic and import
o End-to-end supply chain execution from external to all customers
o Product quality and safety
o Changing demand from the business
o Stock management; and write-off prevention
• Supervise, explore and manage Supply Chain Operation Excellence. Work as the change driver for Supply Chain target.
• Develop and propose the improvement and strategic advice to AVP Commercial. Deliverables focus in the area of supply operational risk mitigation, total cost of ownership optimization, supply chain responsiveness, and operational efficiency.
• Lead, manage, and fulfil brand/ executive requirement, as well as deliver targeted COG and relevant supply chain KPI for all brands through supply chain strategies & initiatives.
• Act as a project manager on managing the successful initiative implementation delivering the desired business outcome timely.
• Work hand-in-hand with Supply Development team to develop long-term supplier development program in both local and global markets to ensure clear direction and plan on strengthening identified business partners relationship to best leverage the growth in entire eco system.
• Lead supplier performance strategy through owning the supplier close-loop performance evaluation process. Conduct an effective supplier performance improvement policy with the suppliers. Encourage the transparent and collaborative working relationship through fact-base communication and structural stakeholder engagement.
• Identify business needs on supply eco-system collaboration/integration, and subsequently spot opportunities from upstream to downstream value chain to enable the identified eco-system integration strategy. And, to drive its implementation with both internal and external business partners.
• Deliver the cost saving and cost avoidance KPIs for the business units through the above capabilities. Follow-up on savings achievement and report variances monthly using available tools and channels.
• Stay on top on global/ local demand supply and price outlook of relevant commodity / raw material cost components, and any risks which will enable a proactive strategic planning.
• Always proactively spot opportunities for supply chain optimization across BUs (Minor Foods / Minor Hotels / Minor Factories / External Suppliers) including volume consolidation, global commercial agreement, global/regional supplier management, product / raw material specification standardization or optimization, supply chain process standardization. And manage its identified strategic supply chain initiatives.
• Lead by example on hyper collaboration, key stakeholder management with cross functions at all levels to overcome any roadblocks for the team and ensure business common goal across the origination to always ensure the best outcome for the business.
• Own the business data analysis, business case development, and executive summary preparation to support any Executive decision making required by AVP Commercial.
• Develop and maintain good relationship with industries, trades and Government authorities for good understanding and create proper infrastructure to support Supply Chain Management & Commercial.
• Responsible for people and talent development in the department. Lead by example on both hard and soft skill development. Soft skills include but not limited to Industry analysis, cost break down analysis, supplier SWOT analysis, strategic supply chain planning, and systematic problem solving, project management. Soft skills include but not limited to all competencies required in Minor Dairy Limited framework.
Other Duties:
• Adhere to the company’s employee rules & regulations.
• Attend and contribute to all training sessions, meetings and activities as required.
• Always exercises responsible behaviour, positively representing MDL.
• Maintains strong, professional relationship with relevant business partners.
• Ensure high standards of personal presentation and grooming.
• Keep the office and working areas clean and tidy.
• Carry out any other reasonable duties and responsibilities as assigned.
System Quality :
Quality system, GMP, HACCP, HALAL, ISO 9000, ISO 22000, FSSC 22000, TIS/OHSAS 18001, ISO14001, ISO 50001, 5S.
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