Sr Manager - Supply Planning & Inventory Management | São Paulo

What will you do?

• Responsible for the performance of Supply Chain Planning organization for several countries in South America Region.
• Inventory Strategy definition and alignment with stakeholders to enable business strategy, competitiveness, and proper level of inventory levels.
• Regular review of Stocking Policy, Safety Stock and standard modal freight to optimize and balance availability, competitive lead time, costs and CO2 consumption.
• Manages overall inventory performance for territory including Distribution Centers and Plants: Days of Inventory, Net Inventory, Unhealthy Stock, Provisions
• Plan and ensure inventory ramp up / down linked to strategic inventory, industrial transfers commercial event, NPI/EOL projects.
• Masterdata and MRP planning parameters maintenance and data quality check.
• End to End Supply Chain orchestration working closely with Replenishment, Logistics, Suppliers and SIOP leaders to delivery on time in full and customer satisfaction.
• Lead Distribution Requirement Planning process to ensure upstream demand visibility
• Engages in SIOP process providing E2E Supply Review and escalate supply risks
• Measure KPIs performance and root cause analysis to stablish course of actions and continuous improvement culture.
• Lead a team of Regional Supply Planners & Inventory SME reporting to South America Planning Director

What skills and capabilities will make you successful?

• Strong and relevant track record leading planning functions responsible for supply planning & inventory performance
• Ability to navigate across the organization aligning different stakeholder in Marketing, Sales, Finance, Logistics, Suppliers, Manufacturing plants.
• Knowledge and previous engagement with SIOP, Demand Planning and Replenishment process
• Strategic inventory management working with Finance in working capital optimization.
• Previous experience working with multi-country and diverse culture
• Ability to deal with complexity and ambiguity on a very dynamic and matrix organization environment.

What qualifications will make you successful for this role?

• Bachelor's degree
• More than 10 years work experience
• More than 5 years leading people & management skills
• Domain SAP system in material management (MRP)
• Kinaxis knowledge will be a plus.

• English and Spanish fluency

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