Supply Chain Manager

Vacancy Name Supply Chain Manager Vacancy No

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Department Supply Chain Location Zeeland Employment  Type Full-Time Company Overview Aurorium is the materials innovation partner that helps global manufacturers harness the power of possibility to make the world a better place. Their specialty ingredients and high-performance materials enhance quality of life, support health and wellness, and enable customers to deliver value-added solutions.

Key industries served include healthcare, personal & home care, mobility, infrastructure, and paper & packaging. A Responsible Care company, Aurorium follows the highest regulatory standards across all manufacturing facilities. The company's global integrated supply chain offers the customer product consistency, easy access, supply security, and reasonable turnaround on delivery. Aurorium is committed to operating at the highest levels of manufacturing consistency, quality control, and safety.

Description The Supply Chain Manager (SCM) for is responsible for optimizing supply chain efficiency and effectiveness to meet customer demands in a changing environment. The position will execute strategic international and domestic supply chain strategies that focus on customer centric delivery on time with controlled inventory. It will oversee plant production planning to ensure due dates are met while optimizing resources and will lead the demand planning, production order variance (POV) warehousing, materials ordering, inventory management.

The Supply Chain Manager is the key interface with Aurorium commercial and customers supplied by the site.

Job Details

Role Specific Responsibilities:

• Leadssite supply chain processes for production planning, shipping/receiving and materials ordering

• Leadsthe monthly Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning processes for Zeeland ensuring supply risks are escalated and actioned appropriately at the earliest opportunity

• Identifies concerns, and opportunities from the site SIOP process through to the Global SIOP monthly review andlead and drive efforts to develop the long-rangestrategicplan for site

• Leadsthe master production scheduling (MPS) process, partnering with Operation, Maintenance and Engineering Managers to develop plans enabling all functions to perform activities and meet customer requirements while optimizing resources

• Workswith thesiteteamand Corporate Supply Chain to ensure capacity plans arein syncwith longer term customer demand plans provided by SIOP

• Ensures production plans are enabled by managing raw material and packaging requirements and dealing with shortages to minimize impact on plant and customer

• Prepares and present KPI inputin toSMR, weekly commercial meetings and weekly absorption tracker

• Ensures Bill of Materials provided by Process Engineers are accurately documented on SAP

• Drives Inventory reduction for raw materials, inter-mediates,and finished goods to meet site objectives

• Leadsthe ABC cycle count program, investigating discrepancies to drive improvements

• Creates action plans to control
  
  SLOB(Slow Moving, Obsolete) inventory to achieve site targets

• Collaborates with purchasing and other departments with continuity plans for raw materials andidentifyand develop cost savings and efficiency improvement projects

• Workswith commercialization team ensuring internal and external communication on delivery performance, contribute with communication and support quality,project sand cost recovery actions

• Undertakes other duties as may be required by Vertellus Management as necessary

• Complies with company Health, Safety and Environmental policies, procedures, and arrangements
• Reports all Health, Safety and Environmental accidents, incidents and near misses promptly
• Acts in a safe and responsible manner at all times

• Active participation in continuous improvement activities
• Participates in problem-solving
• Takes responsibility and ownership for own learning and development in the spirit of continuous improvement of both self and the business
• Assists in the training, mentoring, and assessment of other team members
• Exercises autonomy and judgement subject to overall direction or guidance