Manager - Trading

The Minor Food is one of Asia's largest casual dining and quick-service restaurant companies. We are aggressively accelerating the business growth in both domestic and global market.

Our number of restaurants exceeding 1,600 in 21 countries under The Pizza Company, Swensen's, Sizzler, Dairy Queen, Burger King, Basil Thai Kitchen, The Coffee Club, Ribs and Rumps, Riverside, Penang Street, and Poulet.

To ensure the availability and reliability of its key raw materials, Minor Food has two manufacturing plants which produce high quality, specialized cheeses and ice cream for Thai and international markets. Minor Dairy Limited and Minor Cheese Limited were founded in 1991 with manufacturing facilities in Nakornratchasima province.

• Minor Dairy Limited
  MDL produces a variety of premium ice cream products and toppings for food brands under Minor Food such as Swensen's, Dairy Queen and Burger King, as well as supplying the same quality ingredients to leading customers outside the group. MDL produces a wide range of cheeses and cheese blends including mozzarella, cheddar, string cheese, Parmesan, mascarpone, cream cheese and sour cream.
  
  MDL is not only a key supplier to various restaurant operations of its parent, Minor Food, but is also a major supplier to companies in the Thai and regional food services sector.

Job Purpose:

• Responsible for leading and managing sourcing strategy and on-going sourcing operations for Minor Dairy and all business units through successful strategic planning and execution by way of working with Sourcing team. The primary objective is to deliver sustainable supply model and sourcing operation that enable the business KPI achievement and its long-term growth objectives, through seamlessly integrated supply chain foundation from Brand, Planning, Sourcing, Suppliers, and Logistics.
  
  This requires an intense and broad range of knowledge of both local & international supply chain capabilities and the ability to structurally analyse and influence all business partners to meet corporate objectives on products, quality, and price and service levels.

Main Responsibilities

Work hand-in-hand with Strategic Sourcing team on leading the development of sourcing strategy and supply chain strategy for key strategic Food and Non-Food categories for both short to long term competitive advantages.

• Work on deriving short-medium term sourcing strategies include identifying make/buy decision, fixed/float contract commercial strategy, period and frequency of sourcing decision, which enable competitive advantage to the business through cost optimization, supply sustainability, and supply flexibility. Any decision making would require structural business case justification.

• Lead implementation with successful change management on strategic supply model and strategic supply chain solution through working in collaboration with both internal parties and external partners from Brand, Planning, Sourcing, Raw Material Suppliers, Processing Suppliers, to Logistics for both medium- and long-term supply sustainability.

• Supervise and coach team on daily problem solving to ensure the root cause analysis and strategic solutioning have been thought through to prevent all interruption to the business, and all further issue repetition; including but not limited to

o Supply fulfilment for both domestic and import

o End‑to‑end supply chain execution from external to all customers

o Product quality and safety

o Changing demand from the business

o Stock management; and write‑off prevention

• Supervise, explore and manage Supply Chain Operation Excellence. Work as the change driver for Supply Chain target.

• Develop and propose the improvement and strategic advice to AVP Commercial. Deliverables focus in the area of supply operational risk mitigation, total cost of ownership optimization, supply chain responsiveness, and operational efficiency.

• Lead, manage, and fulfil brand/ executive requirement, as well as deliver targeted COG and relevant supply chain KPI for all brands through supply chain strategies & initiatives.

• Act as a project manager on managing the successful initiative implementation delivering…