The Role:
Ever since, we have expanded rapidly across the APAC region in Hong Kong, Macau, China, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, India, and South Korea and continue to have very ambitious growth plans in new markets for 2023 and beyond.
The Customer Supply Chain Manager will work hand-in-hand with internal sales and in-store teams as well as E-commerce partners, driving our operational execution and supply chain service levels. Building up the processes required for best in class operational efficiency, ensuring we have the right stock at the right time and we are exceeding our customers’ expectations in terms of accuracy and speed.
We are looking for someone who is an excellent communicator and relationship builder, who is willing to roll up their sleeves and get stuck into operational detail but can also identify and address long-term challenges in a fast-growing business.
Role Accountabilities:
- Communicate Supply Chain updates in a pro-active, informative, and collaborative manner to manage expectations for new stores, new products, marketing activity, operational delays, out of stocks, etc.
- Manage daily operational concerns and priorities at APAC Warehouses, working collaboratively to fix underlying issues and ensuring SLAs are met
- Manage B2C flows, ensuring all orders are flowing correctly through our systems and being dispatched and delivered to our customers on time and in full.
- Validate daily replenishment stock orders to our stores, ensuring great on-shelf availability through optimised inventory controls and 3PL on-time performance.
- Provide first line support for all retail operations queries including POS expertise, facilities/maintenance issues, stationery and hygiene product orders.
- Provide support to Regional Supply Chain lead and the sales team on the performance of the day-to-day operations and operational concerns.
- Understand operational weaknesses and highlight/implement solutions to improve customer service and delivery efficiencies.
- Validate the order request and manage the order fulfilment for Retailers.
- Prepare CSC service performance dashboard, New Product Launch run-rate, ad-hoc reports and presentations on request.
- Review and setup process flow, and support the system implementation if needed.
Reporting Relationships:
- Reporting into the Regional Supply Chain lead
- Supporting the regional sales functions as the first of point of contact on order management queries.
Key Selection Criteria:
- A strong educational background
- At least 4+ years of experience in supply chain management role including order management.
- Experience working with logistics providers and able to demonstrate experience in driving operational performance improvement.
- Able to demonstrate real examples of taking ownership of projects/improvements right through to the end result.
- Showing outstanding attention to detail, identifying, and addressing anomalies quickly
- Understanding and commercial awareness of the total supply chain including supply and demand planning.
- Experience with an ERP, WMS and POS system is a must, someone IT savvy who is able to bring experience of improved information sharing.
- Strong Team player, an entrepreneurial flair, real commerciality, great relationship building abilities and improving customer relationships.