Sr. Manager - Operational Material Management

Job summary:

the role is responsible for leading material planning and resource management, monitoring quality standards, mitigating material shortage risks, guiding strategic policies, managing team talent, incorporating Lean principles, and analyzing data to enhance supply chain efficiency and customer satisfaction.

Your role:

• Leads material planning, heads material resource planning software data setup and maintenance, leads product life cycles, designs supplier-managed and owned inventories, and acts as a central contact and coordination point for global and key x-site suppliers.
• Monitors quality standards, targets, and methodologies for improving material planning processes, and instills a quality-oriented mindset across operations to ensure consistent adherence to high standards throughout all facets of the organization's activities.
• Monitors processes, diligently manages and scrutinizes to pinpoint the underlying causes of problems or inefficiencies and enables targeted interventions to minimize waste and enhance productivity.
• Identifies highly complex material shortage risks across suppliers, leads return orders, designs risk mitigation strategies, ensures efficient operations within n-tier supplier networks, leads x-functional shortage review meeting and manages global shortage issues.
• Identifies and resolves root causes of highly complex availability issues, provides supplier assessments and performance reviews, and develops process improvements aimed at enhancing overall performance.
• Provides strategic guidance and implements medium to long-term policies for the material planning department to optimize operational efficiency and ensure the timely delivery of goods and services.
• Manages talent across the team, while driving employee selection, performance management, compensation management, career development, and ensuring effective operational management.
• Defines and supervises the implementation of new systems and processes, incorporates Lean principles introduces innovative material planning concepts and analyzes data to enhance sales, production, and procurement strategies effectively.
• Detects KPI trends, analyzes internal and external data, identifies improvement opportunities throughout the end-to-end supply chain, generates and implements value-adding solutions with a focus on customer satisfaction.

You're the right fit if:

• Bachelor's, Supply Chain Management, Operations Research, Data Analysis and Statistics, Business Analytics or equivalent.
• Minimum 10 years of experience such as Material Planning, Supply Chain Management or equivalent.
• Good communication skills in Bahasa Indonesia and English. Mandarin speaker & Master Power BI are an advantage.
• Have been a people manager for minimum 5 years (leading a team) with strong problem-solving abilities and an analytical mindset.