Supply Order Manager

Sandoz; Telangana; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandoz is seeking a Supply Chain Specialist to manage relationships with external suppliers and customers, ensuring high service levels and regulatory compliance. This role involves coordinating between functions to optimize timing, quality, and cost in the supply chain.

Applicants should have 2–3 years of experience in a similar role, a relevant degree, and strong SAP/ERP proficiency. The position entails on-site work in Telangana, India, with a focus on delivering reliable product flows and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in SCM, Business Admin or Industrial Engineering with related training.
• 2–3 years of experience in a supply chain role in health care, consumer goods, chemical or process industries.
• Strong understanding of supply chain processes including customer service and vendor management; advanced SAP user.
• Proficient in ERP implementation methodologies; good MS Office and Visio skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage relationships with external suppliers and customers to ensure high service levels.
• Oversee supply operations including delayed orders and inbound system bookings.
• Transmit purchase orders to external suppliers and perform order confirmations.
• Coordinate change management for suppliers and conduct regular open order reviews.
• Ensure GMP and regulatory compliance across processes and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Supply chain knowledge

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in SCM/Business Admin/Industrial Engineering

Vocational education in commercial professions

Tools

SAP

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Visio

Job description

Ensure smooth transactional execution between external suppliers and the respective intercompany and third-party customers. Act as competent counterpart between assigned external suppliers and various functions to guarantee high customer service level. Achieve operational excellence in terms of quality, cost, and compliance.

Your Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Develop and manage the relationship with External Suppliers and to customers for all supply related matters to guarantee high customers service levels. Driving as part of the interdisciplinary team tactical decisions, with responsibility to build a bridge between different functions such as LCM, AQ, Quality, SCM, SRM and final system
• Supply Operations Management activities including control of delayed orders, goods receive date. Monitor and maintain correct system transactions related to order management processes according to defined business cases based on planning & master data parameters including the up-to-date status of the order at any point in time.
• Ensure timely and smooth transmission of purchase orders to external suppliersPerform order confirmation and inbound system booking according to business case
• Ensure adherence of change management (change requests) for assigned suppliersConduct regular open order review with assigned external suppliers
• Perform Toll Reconciliation with external suppliers and ensure correct bill of materialsPrepare and ensure availability of all relevant documentations and approvals needed to guarantee steadily product flow (e.g. Narcotic license, Packing list, COA, COO, Invoice)
• Provide guidance to external suppliers for returns, write-off’s, credit/debit notes according to the established SOPs and guidelines.
• Perform system bookings for returns and issue credit notes in a timely manner taking into consideration month-end, quarter-end and year-end financial timelines.
• Define and decide on priorities for physical deliveries in collaboration with Distribution Experts
• Drive and execute pruning/deactivation of SKUs based on input from Supply Chain Manager and country
• Drive and maintain close relation and involve other functions (Life Cyle Management, QA, Supply Chain, Finance, Artwork, Logistics) to ensure regulatory and quality compliant product supply
• Support and implement new set-ups according to business need (e.g., distribution switches)
• Ensure correct system set-up and linkage to partner systems and support regular update on supply parameters e.g. creation of correct vendorParticipate in the coordination of engineering changes, product line extensions, or new product launches to ensure orderly and timely transitions of production flow
• Ensure compliance with GMP and regulatory requirements (including record management) and continuous improvement of quality relevant processes within area of responsibility
• Advanced knowledge of SAP
• Well structured, strong conceptual thinking and process-orientation
• Good process documentation and presentation skills
• Must be a confident personality with a can-do attitude who is willing to expose issues and work collaboratively across functions to put in place systemic solutions that address root cause and de-liver on expected timelines
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and critical thinking skills
• Strong orientation towards actions, solutions and results
• Open communicator, strong influencing skills and team player. Customer (=user) orientation and ability to coach people
• In projects, able to set clear direction and align team and others on common objectives

What you’ll bring to the role:

Essential Requirements:

Higher education (bachelor’s degree) in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration or Industrial Engineering, at least vocational education in commercial professions complemented by additional training in business administration resp. supply chain management

• At least 2-3 years of experience in Supply Chain role in Health Care, Consumer Goods, Chemical or another process industry
• Comprehensive understanding of Supply Chain processes incl. customer service and vendor management, Advanced SAP user knowledge
• Good understanding of ERP implementation methodology
• Computer literacy: Office applications (Excel, Power Point, WinWord) and Visio

Why Sandoz?

Sandoz is the global leader in Biosimilar and Generic medicines, a segment of the healthcare industry that delivers 80% of the world’s medicines at 30% of the cost, touching the lives of more than 1 billion people across 100+ countries! While we are proud of our achievements, we have an ambition to do more, so that everyone can achieve the basic human right of access to good healthcare.

With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help even more people gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.

Our momentum is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills, experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful careers, where diversity of thought is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!

Join us, help us make healthcare fairer and faster.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

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