AdresseLogistics and Procurement are your daily business? If so, take this great opportunity and take over the responsibility for over 60 persons in the Dusseldorf-area.
Responsibilities and tasks
The position holder will report to the Plant Manager and will be responsible for:
- Manage the balance between availability of products and materials versus minimization of stock
- Leadership role for a team of 60 people
- Responsibility for the whole Supply Chain (production planning, material management, procurement, inventory control, warehouse, logistics)
- Ensure production schedules submitted to manufacturing are translated to production line requirements, including consideration of labour, material, and manpower capacities
- Create, deploy, and monitor metrics scorecards to ensure production meets or exceeds throughout and efficiency goals
- Improve and control plan fulfilment and backlog in the plant
- Lead and maintain close collaboration with suppliers that supply the manufacturing site
Ensure contracts and quality of all incoming and outgoing suppliers meet or exceed company standards for service, safety, and specification compliance - Lead strategic and operational purchasing, production planning and responsible for the sales inventory and operations planning process (SIOP)
- Responsibility for supplier management
- Responsibility for planning and controlling production resources, material requirements and material availability to ensure ability to deliver (ATP) and on-time delivery (OTD)
- Communicate with sales & finance, prepare forecast to meet delivery schedules
- Minimize inventory
- Optimize product margins
- Control of the inventory management process: control and optimization of internal stock and external consignment stock
- Continuous improvement of the process according to LEAN methods
- Manage and optimize backlogs
Search profile
Required Know how/experience:
- Master’s/bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Logistics Management
- Knowledge of advanced planning and scheduling
- More than 5 years of proven success in leading a larger team in production planning, supply chain and inventory management
- Experience and track record in managing a complex product variety and a complex supply chain
- Experience in project business
- Experienced in leading with KPIs
- Very good English and German language skills
- High Seniority
- Standing
- Experience with American stakeholders
- Experienced in Six Sigma and LEAN methods
- Experienced in Matrix-Organisations
- International experience
- Very good communication and presentation skills
- Modern leaderships skills: act as a role model
Our offer
- Exciting Operations Leadership role
- High importance of the role, reporting to the Plant Manager of the 2nd biggest plant globally
- Globally in its industry well-known Top Brand
- Market leading position of the company
- Strong financial situation of the company
- Best international career opportunities
- Direct impact to companies success
- Very innovative products
- Very good company culture (freedom to act, respect, trust, reliability, diversity)
- Task with high variety
- Attractive salary package incl. incentives
- Very good infrastructure, best working tools
- Attractive region for work and live (nature, infrastructure, sports, culture, sport events…)
- Good travel connections (airport, railway, metro)
We are looking forward to getting in contact with you!
Please apply very easily via the application button or please send us your CV by email to lars.grassmann@mercuriurval.com with the subject “SCM Manager”.
For further information Mr. Lars Graßmann will be available (phone: +49 160-94864228).
Mercuri Urval GmbH
Peter-Müller-Str. 26
40468 Düsseldorf
www.mercuriurval.com
We guarantee top confidentiality.
About the company
Our client is a TOP Global Player with more than 30.000 employees and a revenue of several billion €. One Division with 11 plants globally, with plants in Germany, China, India and USA, with several thousand employees, is highly profitable and on a growth path.
The German plant in the area Duesseldorf - Cologne is one of the 2 “Lighthouse Plants” globally. The German plant achieves with about 300 employees a revenue of about 90 million € and due to the business plan the target is to double within 3-4 years.
