Senior Manager Supply Chain Excellence

Yanfeng is a leading global automotive supplier, focusing on interior, exterior, seating, cockpit electronics, and passive safety, and is exploring new business actively. Yanfeng has more than 240 locations and approximately 57,000 employees worldwide. The technical team of 4,200 experts is in 10 R&D centers and other regional offices, with complete capabilities including engineering and software development, styling, and test validation.

Focusing on smart cabin and lightweight technology, Yanfeng supports automakers to explore future mobility and provide leading cabin solutions. For more information, please visit

The Senior Manager, Supply Chain Excellence is responsible for driving end-to-end supply chain performance across multiple manufacturing facilities by developing standardized processes, leading continuous improvement initiatives, and implementing strategic solutions that improve delivery, inventory, cost, quality, and operational efficiency. This role provides leadership and guidance to plant Materials and Logistics teams while establishing best practices across planning, inventory management, transportation, warehousing, supplier performance, customer fulfillment, systems, digitalization, and automation.

The Senior Manager serves as a key business partner to Operations, Purchasing, Finance, Quality, Engineering, and Commercial teams to ensure alignment of supply chain strategy with business objectives and customer expectations.

• Lead and support multi-plant Supply Chain and Materials teams to achieve operational, financial, and customer service objectives.
• Develop and deploy enterprise-wide supply chain standards, systems, procedures, and best business practices (BBPs).
• Establish long-term supply chain strategies aligned with annual operating plans and five-year business plans.
• Drive organizational capability development through coaching, training, and mentoring of Materials and Logistics personnel.
• Lead logistics process analysis and establish operating standards, methods, tools, and governance routines across the manufacturing network.
• Coordinate logistics resources across plants and functions to strengthen site performance, standardization, and business support capability.
• Drive regional and cross-site logistics solutions, ensuring scalable standards, resource sharing, and consistent execution.
• Promote Lean logistics principles and structured improvement methods across the organization.
• Define logistics targets, transportation strategies, operating standards, and expense-control requirements that support plant and regional objectives.
• Coordinate internal and external logistics planning, implementation, packaging design, and related operating activities.
• Support standardized material-flow planning and cross-functional launch or improvement projects from concept through implementation.
• Establish and deploy packaging standards and packaging blueprints that improve material protection, handling efficiency, space utilization, and operating consistency.
• Benchmark warehouse and material-flow practices across sites and convert proven methods into reusable standards and training content.

• Oversee production planning, scheduling, inventory control, warehousing, receiving, shipping, and material flow activities across multiple facilities.
• Ensure adequate material availability to support production while optimizing inventory investment and working capital.
• Monitor production schedules and material requirements to mitigate supply risks and production disruptions.
• Lead forecast reviews, budget planning, manpower planning, and capacity assessments.

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