Head of Supply Chain Management

Hiring for AVP - Material Management (MM) and Warehousing for Supply Chain for leading Indian multinational telecommunication company.

Location: Gurugram

Roles and Responsibilities:

We are looking for "Head of Material Management (MM) and Warehousing for Supply Chain".

We seek a highly motivated, analytical, customer centered, creative professional to join our team to

help ideate, execute and drive programs while partnering with stakeholders.

In this role, You'll Get to:

• This role entails designing, governing, optimizing, and automating warehouse process, policies

and controls with the objective to reduce fulfilment TAT, reduce costs, increase flexibility and business support.

• This role entails entire demand-supply planning and forecast for the entire organization.

• This will involve delivering transformative initiatives through cross functional collaboration while balancing execution requirements and driving rigorous compliances.

• Manage & mentor a team

Deliverables (key responsibilities)

Warehouse Transformation and Governance:

Design warehouse and logistics process, policies, procedures, and compliances to maintain standards ofsafety, productivity in daily operations and high degree of controls.

Design and implement standardization of warehouse quality across LOBs, hygiene, infrastructure, spaceoptimization, safety standards, surveillance. Documenting and reviewing best practices with industry and global benchmarks.

Design of warehouse trainings, guidelines, roles & responsibilities, people continuous assessments for warehouse agencies and internal stakeholders

Governance with 3PL partners - Define standard KPIs, SLAs, governance framework, checklists across vendors and internal stakeholders and ensure rigorous governances on these to maintain consistent scores.

Establish and drive the entire automation for warehousing and logistics processes. Selection/design,driving adoption, baselining results of industry tools.

Roadmap for automating manual tasks, reconciliations, tools such as WMS, TMS

Design of tools and processes for end-to-end serial number / lot number visibility for inventory, assets.

Close engagement and coordination with cross functional teams across business, warehouse operations,technical teams to deliver the above results.

Embedding new functional capabilities in people and processes for continuous improvements

Material Planning – Demand and supply side:

Design and implement standardization of material management process quality across LOBs.

Documenting and reviewing best practices with industry and global benchmarks.

Capital work in process (CWIP) monitoring.

Governance on aged inventory and creating a mitigating plan.

Lead demand planning across LOBs and ensure timely supply delivery and governance.

Drive analysis and methods for anticipating demand, building resilience and flexibility to changes in demand.

Drive automation for smooth functioning of process and efficiencies

Compliances:

Ensuring compliances wrt warehouse operations, packaging, and waste disposal

Ensuring all applicable statutory compliances are adhered.

Ensuring all custom duty compliances are adhered.

Scrap disposal:

Design and drive scrap disposal process from end to end

Implement ESG way of working.

Custom Duty:

Ensure smooth clearance of imported goods.

Ensure correct change in tariff (CTH) calcification.

Assessment of bill of entry

Demonstrate (Key competencies):

• Strong Analytical and Data Interpretation Skills
• Design thinking
• Multi-Tasking Skill
• Navigating change
• Strong Communication skills - Both written and verbal
• Portfolio & Program Mgt skills an added advantage.
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal and networking skills.
• Thought leadership

Educational Level:

PG – MBA in Supply Chain Management / Operations Management (preferred) form tier 1 institute

Working Experience:

• 12-18 yrs. of experience in Material management and demand-supply planning

• Multi geography experience with minimum of 5 warehouse responsibility.

• Understanding of logistics