Supply Planning Manager

 

About The Role : 

Leads Procurement teams and oversees the strategic sourcing and procurement processes (Global/Regional/ Country). Required to direct and supervise Procurement Professionals, develop the procurement strategies, manage supplier relationships, negotiate contracts and optimize procurement operations, ensuring optimization of the cost, cash, quality and service. Drives added value through strategic sourcing, engineering value, delivery of innovation and risk management. Capable of collaborating with cross-functional teams ensuring compliance with regulations and driving cost savings.

 

Primary Skills 

Experience in Supply Planning and Vendor Collaboration. Experience in FMCG Sector preferred.

Experience in leading team of Supply Planning experts.

Experience in handling customer communication and acted as single point of contact for issue resoutions

Hands on experience of working on planning tools like APO and ERP execution tools like ECC.

Good understanding of planning methodologies like heuristics, optimization etc

Deep expertize understanding of analyzing planning result output and scenario planning.

Deep understanding of planning master data and its impact on plan quality.

Very good collaboration skills and ability to interact with multi-cultural teams spread across geographies.