Supply Chain Planning

**Vestas is the world leader in wind technology and a main motivation in the development of the wind power industry. Vestas’ core business comprises the development, manufacture, sale, marketing and maintenance of Wind Turbines. Come and join us at Vestas** **Service APAC > Service Operations APAC > Supply Chain** At Vestas, we are constantly optimizing the service supply chain in order to deliver on time to our customers, and at the same time have an optimized supply chain with low inventory and efficient set up. It is an ever developing task in a hard-working environment.The role will be focusing on the improving the demand planning maturity in the medium term and extend to capacity planning ,distribution planning and elevating our execution capability against our plan in the long run. **Responsibilities** - Understand the Service & Tools planning and scheduling, after market, CIM and construction/EIS processes to identify the demand drivers of spare parts, main components and man power capacity (in the long term) - Design, develop and own the process to obtain the demand, supply & inventory in the short and long term from the identified drivers in the S&OP process - Evaluate the current planning capability and methodologies, explore the available data sources, tools inside vestas, and evolving technologies to recommend new approaches to plan demand - Support regional tools operations according to main KPI's within safety, quality, delivery, Inventory and cost. Understands differences in offshore and onshore set up and organizes operations accordingly - Responsible for regional operational long - and short - term planning of Spares & tooling set up - Develop and implement exception based planning to make the demand, supply and inventory management process lean and increase the value addition in each steps - Liaise with IT, external consultants, service planning team, aftermarket sales, project teams and other business stake holders to understand business requirements and handling change - Responsible for ad - hoc development tasks for supply chain development projects **Qualifications** - Post-Graduation in Operations/Supply Chain from a premier Institute - 5- 7 years of Experience in Supply chain planning especially in to demand, supply and inventory planning, S&OP process - Experience in developing statistical forecasting through time series modelling and machine learning techniques - Experience in SAP MM, SD and APO as an end user - Solid understanding and experience of data sources & database and extraction - Demand planning relevant experience in SQL, R/Python, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence - Constant exploration of best practices in supply chain planning and technology landscape **Competencies** - Demonstrates effective communication to all levels of the business - Addressing the status quo - Great stakeholder and change management skills - Demonstrate a high degree of analytics proficiency - Ability to work on ambiguity to provide clarity - Not restricting himself/herself within the roles & responsibilities boundaries and willingness to reach out for getting things done - Cross cultural understanding is needed - Good verbal and written communication skills in English **What We Offer** We offer an exciting job with great opportunities for professional and personal development in an inspiring environment at the world's producer of wind turbines. We highly value initiative, responsibility and the right balance between creativity and quality in all solutions **Additional Information** Your primary workplace will be in Chennai, India **About Vestas** Vestas is the energy industry’s global partner on sustainable energy solutions. We are specialised in designing, manufacturing, installing, and servicing wind turbines, both onshore and offshore. Across the globe, we have installed more wind power than anyone else. We consider ourselves pioneers within the industry, as we continuously aim to design new solutions and technologies to create a more sustainable future for all of us. With more than 145 GW of wind power installed worldwide and 40+ years of experience in wind energy, we have an unmatched track record demonstrating our expertise within the field. With 29,000 employees globally, we are a diverse team united by a common goal: to power the solution - today, tomorrow, and far into the future. Vestas promotes a diverse workforce which embraces all social identities and is free of any discrimination. We commit to create and sustain an environment that acknowledges and harvests different experiences, skills, and perspectives. We also aim to give everyone equal access to opportunity.