Supply Chain Team Lead

VAT Group AG; Kampung Sekolah Simpang Ampat; On-site; MYR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international technology firm is seeking a Supply Chain Team Lead in Penang, Malaysia. In this role, you will be responsible for driving all supply chain activities, ensuring on-time delivery, and managing cost efficiency across product lines. Ideal candidates have at least 8 years of experience in supply chain management, excellent communication skills, and a collaborative mindset. We pride ourselves on offering career development opportunities and fostering a diverse workplace.

Benefits

Career development programs

Training opportunities

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of experience in industrial operations and supply chain.
• Technical education and advanced studies in procurement.
• Strong project and cross-functional management skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage supply chain and operations for product lines.
• Lead a team focused on customer order planning.
• Coordinate with various departments to improve delivery and quality.

Skills

Cross-functional management

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Results-oriented team player

Problem-solving

Education

University degree in Engineering or Business

Technical education in supply chain management

Job description

Innovation, Efficiency and Ambition: this is what VAT has stood for over 50 years.

With this passion, VAT has grown to become the leading international developer, manufacturer and supplier of high-performance high-end vacuum valves and vacuum sealing technology, employing over 2000 people worldwide. The headquarters are located in Haag (Switzerland), the production centers in Switzerland, Malaysia, Romania and Taiwan.

The Supply Chain Team Lead will fulfil a central key role in our company. He/she will be responsible for fully owning and driving all supply chain activities for the assigned product series. This includes ensuring on-time delivery to customers, meeting customer lead time requirements, and eliminating order backlog to maintain smooth operations. The role also involves managing cost of goods sold (COGS) to achieve a healthy contribution margin, while continuously improving efficiency, coordination, and supply performance across the end-to-end process.

Responsibilities

• Manage supply chain and operations of product lines in the VAT network - Malaysia and may connect globally with global team with Switzerland and Romania.
• Lead (functional and disciplinary) a team of end-to-end customer order planning team for your dedicated Product Line.
• Represent the centrally managed operations unit and be responsible for the entire product life cycle.
• Coordinate the interface between operations, strategic purchasing, materials management, supply chain planning and order fulfillment in order to continuously improve and manage on time delivery, product quality and overall product costs of our product lines.
• Work closely with the product managers to identify market trends at an early stage and derive the right measures from them.
• Single point of contact on matters related to order fulfillment, for both mass pro and NPI, with stakeholders from Program Management, Design Engineering, Category Management, Purchasing, Key Account Management, Productions, Finance and Logistics.
• Responsible and accountable for important KPIs e.g.: Customer OTDr & OTDc, Backlogs reduction, Leadtime reduction, COGS reduction, Ramp readiness etc.
• Responsible for minimizing SMI as a result of component EOL, design change by internal or external request.
• Coordinate with Business Unit, Program Managers and Global Account/Key Account Managers on customers forecast verification.
• Work together with IE team and Category Management to prepare sufficient capacity internally and externally for any demand ramp, as well as cycle time improvement.
• Work closely with internal team and Category Management to propose programs/ ideas to shorten material supply lead time as well as minimizing inventory holding, eg : frame contract negotiations, VMI projects, JIT, etc.
• Ensure close collaboration with HQ PLSCM team to encourage knowledge exchange, planning process standardization, as well as RACI standardization.

Qualifications

• University degree in Engineering, International Management and/or Economics, or Business Administration
• Technical education and advanced education in procurement and supply chain management
• Minimum 8 years of experience in developing industrial operations as well as tactical and strategic end to end supply chain
• Project and strong cross functional management skills with stakeholder management focus.
• Can- do attitude and very good communication skills in English
• Results and customer orientated team player
• Collaboration with internal departments including leading global projects and meetings
• Active participation in the improvement of supply chain processes and management of cross-divisional projects

VAT is an equal opportunity employer. We see ourselves as a responsible and far-sighted employer that offers not only jobs, but also career and personal development opportunities through various training programs. We recognize the value of employee diversity and provide equal employment opportunity for all qualified application that contributes to innovation, improves customer orientation and employee satisfaction. One-step in this direction is to ensure that people are recognized and fairly compensated for their contributions to the company. In 2021, VAT received the Fair-ON-Pay+ certificate as an acknowledgement for our commitment in ensuring equal pay for equal work between men and women.