Supply Chain Manager

Supply Chain Department Description

-Efficiently and Effectively Manage the company’s resources related to supply chain, demand planning, warehousing, and logistics.

-Ensure compliance to regulatory requirements, supply chain standards and cGMP requirement and good distribution practices.

Supply Chain Manager Job Objectives

To meet the Supply Chain department goals, the Supply Chain Manager should meet the following objectives:

1. Ensure warehouse management, logistics and distribution is carried compliant with industry standards and good warehousing practices.

2. Ensure customer demand is fulfilled through the supply chain function and follow up on plans to ensure sales orders are completed as requested.

3. Effective and efficient management of resources related to supply chain functions.

4. Develop good work relationships with other functional groups within the company

5. Support organizational goals and objectives

Roles and Responsibilities

1. Manage and direct the activities of the finished goods, raw materials and packaging materials warehouses to ensure proper implementation of best practices in warehousing and to ensure compliance to regulatory requirements.

2. Manage and direct logistics activities supporting distribution and delivery of finished goods and logistics related to all outgoing products from the company.

3. Participate in defining the plans related to supply in coordination with the procurement department, the warehouses, and logistics to ensure that materials requested for production are fulfilled.

4. Develop, maintain and direct the company’s processes and procedures governing key supply chain requirements such as Order (right product and right quantity), quality (right condition and specs), Delivery (right location and time), Cost (right price).

5. Manage the stock of the stores and ensure proper implementation of proper warehousing management. Ensure compliant to cGMP requirements.

6. Implement stock management for incoming materials of raw materials, packaging materials and other consumables to ensure consumption rate is addressed in relation to stock level and to ensure that the stock level is optimal.

7. Ensure that logistics planning and shipping planning is performed to fulfill the sales orders.

8. Review stock level and communicate required deficiencies to manufacturing planning to ensure that that insufficient stock is addressed in the production plans.

9. Review stock level and communicate with sales and marketing overstock and insufficient stock to address the issue.

10. Ensure service level agreements / contracts are developed with clearance companies, shipping companies and all logistics support companies based on negotiated terms related to quality, capacity, responsiveness, and cost.

11. Review ERP system data and issue reports to reflect process KPIs and performance related to supply chain activities and functions.

12. Support inspections conducted at the company and taking responsibility for inspection findings by formulating documented responses and completing inspection finding remediation activities.

13. Comply with the company’s code of conduct and safety requirements

Department Manager Roles and Responsibilities

1. Establish department annual goals and objectives in alignment with the company’s annual plan and strategy

2. Plan, direct and manage department budget and resources according to established department goals and objectives

3. Monitor and report department performance based on established reporting intervals and based on established performance measures, metrics and KPI’s

4. Develop and enhance workforce competencies and skills

5. Facilitate an employee-oriented company culture that emphasizes quality, continuous improvement, key employee retention and development, and high performance

6. Ensure department workforce performance reviews are completed and processed in compliance with Human Resources established processes, policies and standards

7. Maintain a safe work environment

Requirements

Education, experience, and skills required

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Business and/or Management, Operations, Logistics, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or Supply Chain Management (or equivalent)

Experience:

15 years minimum as procurement or supply chain management experience

Skills required:

- Ability to negotiate contracts as well as commercial terms and service level agreements (essential) with supply chain stake holders.

- Supply chain experience, working with cross functional teams in a fast-paced environment

- Strong communication, relationship management, and analytical and problem solving skills

- Preferable candidate to have experience in a pharmaceutical, Food or life sciences sector

- Excellent language skills in Arabic and English (reading, writing and speaking)

- Certification and accreditation is a plus

- Excellent computer skills such as MS Office and Outlook