Industry: Retail, Distribution, Automotive, or Consumer Goods
Job Overview
We are seeking a strategic, analytical, and execution-driven Supply Chain Senior Manager to lead end-to-end supply chain operations, including demand planning, procurement, importation, logistics, warehousing, and inventory management.
The role is responsible for ensuring product availability, optimizing supply chain costs, maintaining inventory accuracy, and protecting working capital while establishing efficient, scalable, and sustainable supply chain processes across a multi-site business operation.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and implement the end-to-end supply chain strategy aligned with business objectives and operational requirements.
- Lead demand forecasting, supply planning, procurement, replenishment, and inventory allocation to ensure optimal product availability.
- Oversee local and international sourcing, importation, customs coordination, freight management, and landed-cost optimization.
- Manage warehouse operations, distribution networks, and logistics activities supporting multiple branches and business locations.
- Improve inventory accuracy, stock availability, warehouse productivity, order fulfillment, and logistics efficiency.
- Minimize stock-outs, overstocking, inventory aging, losses, and unnecessary working-capital exposure.
- Lead supplier negotiations, accreditation, contract management, performance evaluation, and alternative sourcing initiatives.
- Drive the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process in collaboration with Sales, Retail Operations, Finance, and other key stakeholders.
- Establish and strengthen supply chain systems, performance dashboards, internal controls, operational processes, and business continuity plans.
- Monitor key performance indicators related to inventory turnover, service levels, procurement costs, supplier performance, warehouse productivity, and logistics efficiency.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement, cost reduction, automation, and supply chain optimization.
- Lead, develop, and manage cross-functional teams covering planning, procurement, logistics, warehousing, importation, and inventory control.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, Logistics, Operations Management, Economics, Finance, or a related field.
- At least 8 years of progressive experience in supply chain management, procurement, logistics, warehousing, demand planning, inventory management, or importation.
- At least 5 years of experience in a senior management, department-head, or equivalent leadership position.
- Proven experience managing end-to-end supply chain operations within a large, multi-site retail, distribution, automotive, motorcycle, or consumer goods organization.
- Strong background in multi-warehouse operations, inventory investment, international importation, customs coordination, freight management, and landed-cost control.
- Demonstrated expertise in supplier negotiations, procurement governance, inventory controls, cost optimization, and working-capital management.
- Experience using ERP, warehouse management, inventory management, or supply chain planning systems.
- Experience supporting a large-scale business with significant inventory investment and complex distribution requirements is highly preferred.
- Proven ability to lead, develop, and manage teams of at least 10–15 employees.
- Willingness to travel to warehouses, ports, suppliers, and operational sites as required.
Ideal Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate is a commercially minded, analytical, and disciplined supply chain leader who can balance product availability, cost efficiency, inventory accuracy, and working-capital protection.
The successful candidate must demonstrate strong leadership, strategic planning, supplier management, and operational execution capabilities, with the ability to build efficient and scalable supply chain operations that support business growth.