Senior Supply Chain Management (SCM) Manager, APAC

gates industrial singapore pte. ltd.; Singapore; Sur place; SGD 180 000 - 240 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Gates Industrial Singapore PTE. LTD. seeks a senior supply chain leader to manage the Asia Pacific S&OP across demand, supply, inventory, and capacity planning.

You will drive region-wide S&OP governance, lead continuous improvement initiatives, and collaborate with commercial, plant operations, sourcing, IT, and regional teams to align strategies and execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, or related discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in operations, engineering, or supply chain leadership with direct ownership of S&OP.
• Experience in automotive or complex manufacturing systems is highly desirable.
• Strong hands-on experience in Lean Manufacturing, continuous improvement, and operational excellence methodologies.

Responsabilités

• Own and drive a disciplined, region-wide S&OP process across demand, supply, inventory, and capacity planning.
• Identify, prioritize, and lead continuous improvement initiatives across forecasting accuracy and production scheduling.
• Lead exceptions management, identifying risks and enabling timely trade-off decisions with stakeholders.
• Structure, facilitate, and lead regional S&OP governance and review meetings.
• Establish, monitor and track KPIs including inventory health, service levels, forecast accuracy, and supply reliability.
• Drive actions to reduce excess and obsolete E&O inventory and improve working capital.
• Champion Gates' values and continuous improvement across the region.

Connaissances

Project management

Lean manufacturing

Six Sigma

Supply chain leadership

Data-driven decision making

Change management

Executive communication

Formation

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering / industrial engineering / supply chain

Outils

S&OP systems

Analytics tools

Description du poste

This role has overall responsibility for managing the supply chain across the Asia Pacific region.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Own and drive a disciplined, region-wide Sales & Operations Planning process, ensuring alignment across demand, supply, inventory, and capacity planning.
• Identify, prioritize, and lead continuous improvement initiatives across forecasting accuracy, production scheduling, inventory optimization, and supplier supply planning.
• Lead the exceptions management process, proactively identifying risks, gaps, and constraints, and enabling timely, fact-based trade-off decisions with key stakeholders.
• Structure, facilitate, and lead regional S&OP governance and review meetings, ensuring strong process discipline, accountability, and compliance.
• Establish, monitor and track key operational performance indicators (KPIs) including inventory health, service levels, forecast accuracy, and supply reliability.
• Drive actions to identify, reduce, and eliminate excess and obsolete E&O inventory, improving working capital efficiency.
• Champion and model Gates' core values, continuous improvement mindset, and operational excellence culture across the region.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS:

• Partner with the commercial organization to develop robust processes, systems, and tools that enable accurate product family and SKU-level demand forecasting.
• Collaborate with plant/site operations teams to translate demand forecasts into executable production plans, capacity plans, and inventory targets.
• Work closely with the sourcing and procurement teams to ensure supply planning, supplier capacity, and inventory strategies remain aligned with customer demand.
• Partner with global and regional S&OP leaders to align strategy, governance standards, best practices, and exceptions management.
• Collaborate with IT and digital teams to define, develop, and implement the regional S&OP systems roadmap, analytics, and tool strategy.

MEASURES OF PERFORMANCE:

• Regional KPIs (Delivery, Inventory and Logistics cost, Lean maturity)
• Delivery of improved S&OP projects and processed with priority
• Best Practice/Idea Replication
• Benchmark Comparisons (Internal & External) for World Class Performance
• Achievement of regional operational KPIs, including delivery performance, inventory turns, logistics cost, service levels, and Lean maturity progression.
• Successful delivery of priority S&OP transformation and continuous improvement initiatives, with measurable business impact.
• Replication and scaling of best practices, innovations, and process improvements across sites and regions.
• Performance against internal and external world-class benchmarks, ensuring continuous competitiveness and operational excellence.
• Improvement in forecast accuracy, inventory optimization, and supply responsiveness.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, or related discipline, with a minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in operations, engineering, or supply chain leadership, including direct ownership of S&OP.
• Master's degree preferred.
• Experience in automotive or complex manufacturing systems is highly desirable.
• Strong hands-on experience in Lean Manufacturing, continuous improvement, and operational excellence methodologies.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Demonstrated project and program management expertise, including cross-functional coordination, communication, execution, governance, and post-implementation review.
• Deep knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, statistical analysis, and structured problem-solving methodologies.
• Strong analytical and systems-thinking capabilities, with the ability to translate data into actionable business decisions.
• Highly results-oriented, with a track record of driving measurable business improvements and scalable process solutions.
• Proven ability to influence, coach, and align stakeholders across multiple organizational levels, functions, and geographies.
• Excellent executive-level communication, presentation, and facilitation skills, both verbal and written.
• Strong change leadership skills with the ability to drive adoption of new processes, systems, and behaviors.

WORKING LOCATION:

Jurong East, Industrial Business Park