Manager, Supply Chain 1

Req ID: 127083
Remote Position: Yes
Region: Asia
Country: Malaysia
State/Province: Kedah
City: Kulim

**General Overview**:
**Functional Area**: SCM - Supply Chain Management
**Career Stream**: SCM - Supply Chain Management
**Role**: Manager 1
**Job Title**: Manager, Supply Chain 1
**Job Code**: MG1-SCM
**Band**: Level 09
**Direct/Indirect Indicator**: Indirect

**Summary**:
**Detailed Description**:
Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

- Manages material shortages to ensure Clear to Builds in collaboration with the Purchasing and SLM Team.
- Acts as a liaison between customer project management and internal departments on the introduction of new product requirements.
- Ensures timely and accurate demand management (If the demand is managed by the Planning Team at your Site).
- Effectively Manage Excess, Surplus and Obsolete inventory.
- Identify the impact of excess and obsolescence and drive necessary actions to mitigate it.
- Ensures bills of material are accurate and collaborate with other teams on any engineering changes.
- Collaborates with different stakeholders to achieve Inventory Entitlement targets and drive results.
- Executes actions to meet the Inventory goals (Inventory cash adjusted and Turns), including performing accurate Inventory Projection.
- Maintains continuous Material Supply to achieve the targeted inventory levels and turns.
- Perform material and capacity analysis before loading MPS. Monitor MPS accuracy, attainment and level load metrics and drive necessary actions to improve them.
- Performs Financial Impact Analysis (FIA) to mitigate inventory risk before loading MPS.
- Work with other departments to review and dispose of non-conforming materials.
- Ensures production schedules to meet the customer requirements to achieve high levels of on time delivery.
- Ensures proper POR including OAR management and timely execution.
- Drives necessary actions to meet revenue goals.
- Manages RMA orders. Works with other departments to meet repair commitments.
- Monitors planning parameters ROP & SS to ensure optimized inventory levels.
- Ensures proper execution of the SIOP Process (including accurate data, timely submission, and execution of Rhythm meetings with the key stakeholders) until approval completion on a monthly basis.
- Maintains responsibility for performance management, development, recognition, coaching and compensation of employees.
- Reassigns personnel as necessary to optimize work. Act as a liaison with customers to ensure forecast commitments are met.
- Collaborates with other departments to improve supply flex programs.
- Submits Investment Inventories for material that is not required for normal manufacturing operations or to support standard level of customer service.
- Follow global procedures and policies and drive practices aligned to them.
- Collaborates with Global and Segment teams to drive Inventory Management Operating System.
- Manages KRIs, Planning metrics and drives necessary actions.
- Review with the team the last time buys for products that are at the end of life. Reviews impact on supply line of the new engineering requirements excess and obsolete
- Manages overall relationship with and performance of suppliers. Reviews supplier performance and makes recommendations on changes or disqualifications. Communicates internally committed delivery schedule for purchased materials required in production. Supervises and maintains communications with supplier’s through SCM Tools
- Monitoring and Drive weekly Purchasing KPI performance trend and execution. Buyer due diligence & escalation with materials are available to meet manufacturing build requirements. Addresses and resolves possible material shortages.
- Acts as a liaison with internal/external customers to ensure logistics commitments are met.
- Maintains high level of on-time delivery, including operational tracking of critical shipments

**Knowledge/Skills/Competencies**:

- Broad knowledge of an electronic manufacturing environment, materials and processes.
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of global supply chain management, distribution methods, and global transportation services and inventory management.
- Excellent analytical, negotiation and problem resolution skills.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy and working under tight deadlines.
- Ability to evaluate, prioritize and problem solve a variety of tasks to ensure their timely and accurate completion.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers. Strong presentation skills.
- Ability to effectively lead, manage, assess, train and motivate a diverse group of employees.
- ERP System Logic Understanding.
- Rapid Response Kinaxis System Knowledge.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel Knowledge.
- Basic Statistical Analysis Knowledge applied to Supply Chain
- Drives continuous improvements of SCM function