Supply Chain Head

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategy Development: Establish and execute the operation strategy to minimize supply chain complexities.
2. Supply Chain Management: Oversee all supply chain activities to ensure accurate and timely delivery of products across all sales channels.
3. Demand Forecasting: Forecast demand and share the requirement with production teams on a quarterly, monthly, and weekly basis.
4. Returns Management: Reduce sales returns, damaged goods, and short-expiry products by monitoring returns, developing depletion plans, and avoiding overstocking at points of sale.
5. Stakeholder Relations: Develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including clients, suppliers, community organizations, and regulatory bodies.
6. Inventory Planning: Create inventory plans, monitor stock and finished goods levels, and manage resource allocation according to the budget.
7. Logistics Supervision: Oversee logistics from the plant to each city warehouse to ensure timely deliveries.
8. Distribution Management: Manage intra-city day-to-day logistics as per the distribution plan, including creating daily dispatch plans, transportation of finished goods to retail stores, and ensuring timely delivery.
9. Warehouse Management: Supervise warehouse operations to ensure statutory compliance and optimize warehouse efficiency.
10. Performance Monitoring: Track and analyze SCM and logistics operations by measuring parameters like transportation costs, damages, TAT (turnaround time), and order fulfillment rates.
11. Process Optimization: Identify process gaps in SCM and logistics operations, proposing solutions to improve efficiency and continuously monitoring SCM metrics.
12. Stakeholder Negotiation: Liaise with and negotiate terms with external stakeholders such as transportation service providers and dealers.

Skill Requirements

1. Skills:

   • Strong commercial and contractual awareness with excellent negotiation skills.
   • Strong communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills with staff, clients, and vendors.
   • Proficiency in MIS tools, including Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, etc.

2. Attitude:

   • Self-motivated and proactive.
   • Sincere with a positive problem-solving approach.

3. Educational Qualification:

   • Graduation in any specialization.
   • Post-Graduation (Not Mandatory): PGDM/MBA in Operations/Supply Chain.

4. Experience:

   • Preferably from an FMCG or retail background.