Location: United Arab Emirates (U.A.E)
Job Category: Other
Ref #: OTH–0109
PostedOn: 4/2/2009

Job Description:
– Responsible for developing an annual supply chain plan, including mix of outsourcing, external and internal capacities for manufacturing, warehousing and delivery in consonance with the annual business plan.
– Based on Sales Forecasts, plan total inventories, production, finished goods, warehousing and transit inventories to ensure optimization and efficiencies in working capital deployed.
– Be responsible for building sophistication in the demand forecasting process with the objective between forecast and actual sales.
– Ensure that the Inventory Plan adequately reflects SKU (Stock Keeping Unit) level production and corresponding SKU–wise Service Level in the market.
– Ensure just–in–time availability of raw and packing material to service the production plan through timely call–ups of raw materials, packing materials as determined and negotiated by Central Purchase.
– Ensure tendering and contracting for other raw materials, packing materials not covered in the Central Purchasing System.
– Ensure proper material accounting between purchase receipts, warehouse, production and finished goods, including the invoicing operation. Ensure null variance between book stock and physical stock.
– Determine the requirement of warehouse and delivery van capacities. Ensure optimal supply of these capacities.
– Ensure optimal route planning and the productivity of the trucks and manpower.
– Determine optimal manning, shift design and deployment in the warehouses including flexibility and mobility of the labor between various parts of the warehouses.
– Ensure adequate pipeline of talent and skills for succession by designing and activating a work force career path and plan in collaboration with Unit HR.

Experience: 5 – 10 Years

Education: Bachelors Degree

Responsibilities:
They are seeking the services of a Supply Chain Manager
– For a dynamic, highly successful company in the Food Industry, based in Sharjah UAE, they are looking for a flexible, experienced Supply Chain Manager.

Company profile:

The company is a United Arab Emirates (U.A.E) based business house, which manufactures and markets a well–integrated range of mass–market consumer products.
Their business segments are: Food and Beverage, Personal Care and Cleaning, Packaging & Industrial Products, Logistics, Insurance, Advertising & Real Estate.
They also manufacture related derivatives and intermediates associated with these business segments.
Since its inception in 1975, their history has been one of consistent and successful growth. This period has seen their transformation from a trading company to a highly successful, responsive and dynamic group of companies, which invest in building winning brands that continuously seek to create value for the consumer.

Skills:

– Minimum of five years experience in supply chain management
– Ability to communicate effectively at all level
– Cultural awareness
– The job demands a flexible attitude
– They are looking for a person who ideally has worked in the Food Industry before and who has worked in a European environment.
– The salary package is to be negotiated. Depends on experience and education. Relocation is part of the package.

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