Senior Supply Chain Analyst

Location

Secunderabad | India

Job description

About Us

SteriMax is the largest privately-owned injectable company in Canada. Our foundation rests upon the principles of providing high quality products, maintaining a reliable product supply, and supporting the needs of Canadian patients. For more details, please visit our website

Basic Function

Responsible for creating and executing corporate demand and replenishment plans that ensure continuous inventory availability while simultaneously managing inventory holding costs and minimizing product expiry. This role supports the Supply Chain managers with data and analytics reports/metrics, as well as helping to ensure key projects are aligned with the PMO office.

This role will be key to the engagement of both internal and external stakeholders via a Sales and Operational Planning process and reporting of key operational metrics.

This position reports to the Director, Supply Chain , and will take functional guidance from the Supply Chain Managers

Detailed Responsibilities

General

1. Ensure the timely flow of product supply from supplier to end-user in order to meet sales demand and avoid any product outages for Canadian market.
2. Overall supply chain cost optimization including inventory carrying costs, product obsolescence and inbound costs.

3. Build and Maintain Strong relationship with Global Vendors/partners by developing a strong positive rapport with SteriMax vendors, partners and CMOs.

1. Use the principles of 6-Sigma to effectively and efficiently design new processes and align existing ones to optimally support the supply chain operation.
2. Adherence to all regulatory requirements in addition to corporate standards and policies.
3. Build and manage reporting and metric tools.

Supply Chain Analytics

1. Responsible for generating and publishing all departmental weekly and monthly reports.

2. Accountable for developing and communicating prescribed Supply Chain metrics and KPI's.

3. Responsible for identifying and providing feedback for root cause analysis and corrective action for KPI target and other supply chain related issues.

4. Proactively identify cost-savings opportunities to the business and provide financial and operational recommendations by utilizing lean six sigma and the best-in-class optimization technique.

1. Automate reports using reporting development tools
2. Lead project management to support all supply chain improvement initiatives.

Product – Production, Procurement and Forecasting

1. Determine the optimal safety stock requirements by SKU and ensure that those requirements are consistently met across the global supply chain.

2. Develop and lead a corporate Sales & Operational Planning process including Sales, Marketing, QA and finance.

3. Creation of 24-month Demand rolling forecasts - by SKU, for all finished and API product and the creation of a 12-18-month Master PO scheduler - by vendor. Proactive engagement of key internal / external stakeholders will be important to forecast and PO schedule generation.

4. Coordinate, as appropriate, the supply of packaging and API materials to the respective manufacturing site to ensure timely and efficient production of goods.

5. Responsible for all Supply Chain facets relating to product launches.

6. Internal Planning Forecast – Manage and communicate required timelines for the release and packaging activities of products to meet inventory and business requirements.

7. Overall purchase order management scheduling, reporting and process facilitation.

8. Departmental KPI dashboard development and roll-out.

9. Responsible for generating and publishing all departmental weekly and monthly reports.

10. In tandem with the Director, acts as a key contact to major suppliers, partners and CMOs.

Logistics Support

1. Supports the logistics team to ensure efficient and accurate receiving, shipping and warehousing of all items including but not limited to – finished product, packaging and API
2. Ensures that all export, import and local shipments are completed as per business requirements.
3. Responsible for ensuring that inventory received is entered into the accounting system and that adjustments to cost of goods are completed as required.
4. Represents Supply Chain as the Key support designate as required by Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance.

Skills/Competencies

· 3-5 years of proven strategic sourcing and replenishment experience.

· Strong written and oral communication skills

· Proven ability to manage projects and to work collaboratively in a team setting

· Superior working knowledge of Microsoft Excel. Access knowledge would be a definite asset.

· A numbers person who is very attentive to detail.

· Hands-on experience leading the development and Roll-Out of corporate S&OP.

· Minimum 3 years 'hands-on' ERP experience.

· Self- initiative and can operate independently.

· Highly motivated demonstrating a solution-orientated style with a strong understanding of when to ask for guidance/direction and assistance.

· Active listener who can expresses ideas in ways that build commitment and trust.

· Demonstrates positive and enthusiastic attitude and approach to all tasks.

· Team player who can and will comfortably operate at all functional levels internally and externally.

· A dynamic, passionate person who excels at critical thinking and problem solving

Education and Experience

· University Degree Preferred. Minimum College Diploma; preferably in related field.

· Supply Chain certification or working towards to achieving one (e.g., APICS CPIM, CSCP, IBF, etc.)

· Relevant membership in any supply chain related organization would be an asset.

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