Head of Supply Chain India

Job description

People are at the heart of our strategy

A family-owned Group, Roquette offers a  positive  and  attractive  work and career environment, in which everyone can learn,  develop , contribute to the overall company performance and be  recognized  for doing so.

Summary

A family-owned French MNC serving customers globally, Roquette is a global leader in specialty food ingredients and pharmaceutical excipients. The products and solutions developed by the Group deliver proven technological, nutritional and health benefits precisely tailored to the pharma, nutrition, food and selected industry markets. You will have the opportunity to work in a dynamic and growth oriented environment that will help in your career progression. By joining Roquette you can contribute directly to improve and enhance the well-being of millions of people worldwide. Roquette India's 3 manufacturing plants and commercial offices touch several lives on a daily basis.

Our ambition in supply chain is to provide a sustainable competitive advantage for supporting the Group strategy through Excellence in Supply Chain activities and to be the trusted partner of Sales and proactively contribute to make Roquette the preferred supplier of our clients.

Our missions are :
- Implement a Sourcing and Procurement strategy to grant best access to market solutions and lower cost of ownership with an ethic and business minded approach
- Roll out a robust and cost efficient integrated Planning process allowing to maximize the VM and customers service (OTIF) with a constrained capacity footprint
- Upgrade Logistics & Transportation activities to a World Class level and build a real and tangible Logistic competitive advantage (cost effectiveness without compromising the service level with a special attention paid to the demanding Pharma and Food customers)
- Build a culture of Excellence on boarding all Supply Chain fields and all Regions in a deeply changing group : ambitious growth outlook, new organization and new people, GBUs in the driver seat.

Job Description

ACCOUNTABILITIES

The incumbent will drive alignment & implementation of Global/Area Supply Chain strategies, processes & policies at local level while maintaining strong alignment with other functions and area/global teams. This will help gain insights into their needs, as well as general market requirements for effective performance of the function on safety, security, quality, compliance, service at the most effective cost. S/he will double hat as India Supply Chain Head and will have functional responsibility for the pillars of Supply Chain (Logistics, Planning, Purchasing and Packaging).

The incumbent is expected to build a solid and sustainable supply chain organization that can meet the evolving business needs of today and the future.

Key accountabilities:

Efficient and Effective Operations and Strategy

·  Create and drive the annual budget plan and strategy for India supply chain team – objectives, goals, strategies and measures
·  Ensure the implementation of the global and Greater Asia supply chain strategy, processes and policies to optimize supply chain operations
·  Ensure operational in-process metrics targets are met (productivity, OTIF, inventory on hand, cost savings, planning accuracy and quality,) – regularly review the same to ensure alignment with desired business outcomes
·  Develop India SC road map and transition plan to transform supply chain into a trusted adviser and key/strategic pillar to support India growth agenda.
·  Review periodically the SC infrastructure requirement to support the growing business needs and develop business case to secure capital expenditure/funding to invest in supporting the capacity expansion

Continuous Improvement and Transformation

·  Evaluation and implementation of supply chain best practices across planning, procurement and logistics - and create actionable deliverables
·  Logistics and transportation – conduct competitive analysis and benchmarking, exploring new industry leading practices to drive innovation and improvement and deliver best practice logistics model to enhance customer service and optimize the logistic cost to serve
·  Review the existing planning and fulfillment flows and develop a more robust integrated \'plan\' to \'deliver\' flows to achieve higher customer satisfaction, OTIF, MPS/plan adherence while optimizing plant capacity utilization
·  Purchasing – provide support to Head of Raw Material Purchase and Head Industrial purchase in driving purchasing transformation (an integral part of Parivartan – India turnaround initiative)
·  Organizational transformation –in consultation with various Head of India Supply Chain pillars (purchasing, logistics and planning), develop strategy and plan to restructure, transform and evolve the India supply chain organization
·  Maintain strong focus on operational excellence and transformation to enhance productivity levels and cost improvement
·  Partner with global and regional supply chain leadership to drive standardization of processes across all business units and geographies

Stakeholder Relationship Management

·  Must be able to gain respect, trust and influence key India SC pillar leaders (Head Purchasing, Head Logistic, Head Planning) through his actions and demonstrating true leadership
·  Understand the global and matrix organization and inter-linkages between various teams – be able to influence multiple decision makers to achieve the desire outcomes
·  Ensure collaboration at executive levels with business units and functional partners like commercial, sales and marketing, manufacturing, and finance HR and Legal

Talent Management

·  Strategically partner with hiring team to ensure right talent is brought into the team
·  Partner with India SC pillar heads (purchasing, Logistics and planning) and HR business partners to identify key talents and critical roles and then develop talent to enable effective succession planning within team – focus on diversity while building talent
·  Maintain high levels of employee engagement – ensure camaraderie and team spirit Ensure compliance with Roquettes HR practices and policies (Compensation and Benefits, Annual Appraisals, Promotions, People and Org Reviews etc.)

Compliance and Budget

·  Ensure compliance with company financial controls
·  Track and monitor discretionary and non-discretionary spends to meet budget numbers
·  Be accountable to ensure the compliance with regulation (safety rules, quality, food and pharma safety), and the implementation of action plans (quality, customers, customs, insurances, etc)

COMPETENCIES & SOFT SKILLS

Leadership Skills and Strategic Mindset

·  Possess decision making abilities to achieve the organization’s objectives
·  Have impeccable integrity and high personal ethics
·  Strategic yet hands on and have the ability to lead and guide the team
·  Has the energy to work in a dynamic environment, and yet possesses the maturity and good-counsel
·  Well-developed commercial acumen and solution oriented approach

Operational Excellence

·  Have focus on quality and excellence
·  Have disciplined approach

Stakeholder Management

·  Have the ability to manage both internal and external stakeholders
·  Have the ability to collaborate across multiple cross-border groups and be comfortable in a matrix reporting structure

P eople Management

·  Ability to drive change and positively influence others
·  Strong interpersonal and people skills, including a high level of personal impact and an inclusive and approachable style

C ommunication Skills

·  Have strong communications and negotiation skills to manage vendors and suppliers
·  Excellent articulation skills, and ability to influence without authority at times

Must Have:

·  Must have over 18 years of relevant post qualification experience in Supply Chain, of which the most recent 3+ years should have been in leading the entire function in a business / division of a marquee MNC manufacturing organization in the FMCG, nutrition, pharmaceutical, Active Pharma Ingredients (API), chemical industry
·  Should have deep functional expertise and diversified supply chain experience in Procurement, Demand & Supply Planning, S&OP, Inventory Management, Analytics, Logistics, Transportation & Warehousing amongst others demonstrated by positively impacting gross margins and productivity
·  Must have led a transformational role in streamlining and optimizing systems and processes and managing change in an environment where excellence is the norm
·  Should have worked in a dynamic multi-cultural matrix organization, collaborating with multiple stakeholders and other business functions

Roquette provides numerous career opportunities, thanks to the diversity of its jobs and their international dimension.

Joining Roquette means joining dynamic teams ambitious for success.

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