BU Supply Chain Manager - Coffee, Petcare & Specialties

Location: Burgos, ES, CP 09001 Bristol, GB Lisbon, PT Lugo, IT Lodz, PL Prague, CZ
Department: Operations/Production/Manufacturing
Full-time or Part-time: Full-Time
Job Type: Employee
Shift: Remote

Accelerate the possible by joining a winning Amcor team that’s transforming the packaging industry and improving lives around the world.

At Amcor, we unpack possibility through our innovative and responsible packaging to provide solutions that benefit our customers, our people and our planet. More than 10,000 consumers worldwide encounter our products every second and rely on us for safe access to food, medicine and other goods. We value their trust by making safety our guiding principle. It’s our core value and integral to how we do business.

Beyond this core principle, our shared values and behaviors unite us as we work together to elevate customers, shape lives and protect the future. We champion our customers and help them succeed. We play to win – adapting quickly in an everchanging world – and make smart choices to safeguard our business, our communities and the people we serve for generations to come. And we invest in our world-class team, empowering our colleagues to unpack their potential, because we believe when our people grow, so does our business.

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Position Job Title: BU Supply Chain Manager

Function: Operations, Supply Chain
Location: Flexible Location Within Europe
Line Manager’s Job Title: BU Operations Director EMEA
Work contract Legal Entity: Contract will be issued accordingly with legal requirements and legal entity of the hiring country
Contract Length: Permanent

Job Purpose

Responsibility of this role is to steer and accelerate the drive towards best in class supply chain (SC) practices within assigned Business Unit, roll-out the supply chain strategy and the roadmap for the assigned Business Unit, with the involvement and the participation of the relevant stakeholders (Local Supply Chain managers, Procurement, Sales, etc.)

Grow an agile and operationally hands-on matrix organization, to further strengthen cross-functional work streams in order to sustain year on year PBIT and Working Capital enhancement.

Develop a pipeline of major opportunity projects which can deliver step change benefits, manage them accordingly and drive implementation across Functions and Sites.

Maximize Supply Chain’s support to “cost out” business contribution and broader support to assigned Business Unit’s profitable growth agendas. Specifically, provide support to roll out of step change platforms across factories.

Job Dimensions & Scope

Process: Following and implementing with the plants the Supply Chain performance. Short term planning, outperformance vs. Budgeted Total Cost Out
Key performance indicators: DIFOT’s, PBIT impact, working capital

Principal Accountabilities

1) Strengthen functional capability

Network: Support the assigned Operations Director, partner with the plants management team, and adequate functional communities across assigned BU in order to strengthen functional expertise and drive business contribution on Working Capital (inventory management optimization) and PBIT (directly through costs reductions and other efficiency gains, indirectly by strengthening customer service).
Best practices: Ensure timely sharing and application of SC best practices within assigned BU.
Processes: Support the assigned Operations Director, partner with the plants management team, to roll out streamlined and improved processes. Ensure homogeneity of approaches when business needs and issues are common.
Exposure: Grow understanding of Supply Chain matters across organization at all levels, and connect with AFEME business priorities. Educate, coach and inspire the senior managers in the organization such that they become role models to the rest of the organization

2) Grow business contribution

Execution & monitoring: Be accountable for the adequate and consistent Supply Chain KPIs and monitor capability across assigned Business Unit for commonly pursued objectives.
Key transversal projects: Identify big ticket items within assigned Business Unit and steer adequate projects transversally and cross-functionally as required.
Simplification: Contribute to and/or initiate Simplification projects. Optimizing manufacturing processes and streamlining SKUs portfolio.
Step change platform roll out: Support development of Step Change platforms and facilitate their roll out across plants and BUs, beyond initial pilot sites.

3) Specifics Activities

Strategy Implementation:
Translate the overall strategic plan into concrete operational plans and follow-up on implementation through concrete Roadmaps.
Responsible for the correct implementation of the strategy to ensure consistency and intervene where necessary to redirect resources towards objectives.
Accountable for the Supply Chain performance and track and report KPI’s.
S&OP with month after month clear deliverables on sales and operations planning.
Results Achievement:
Support Operations Director of the assigned Business Unit, and with Plant GMs, Supply Chain Managers and Sales, to ensure required professionals are in the right place with the appropriate support to accomplish and contribute to delivering the operating plan and business commitments.
The development of the capabilities of the supply chain team members within the BU.
Reporting
Ensure the tracking of the operational excellence KPIs and develop systems that provide regular information for decision-making.
Minimize reporting effort while maximizing quality of information to allow effective understanding of root cause issues and development of action plans.
Follow up and report on achievement versus previous year and agreed targets.

Major Challenges & Complexities

External Relationships : Customers, Suppliers, external benchmarks

Internal Relationships

Vice President Operations
Vice President Business Unit
Business Unit Operations Director
Group Procurement Directors
Plant Supply Managers
Plant teams Management
Sales
R&D and Marketing

Qualifications/Requirements

Knowledge and Experience

Multi-site Supply Chain Management
People & change management
Engineering, CI & manufacturing excellence
OHSE internal & external rules & regulations

Education and Certifications

Degree in engineering, business or related field
Additional certification as either a Lean / Six Sigma Black Belt or Master Black Belt is desired

Job Specific Requirements

Strong decision making and managerial skills
Good business judgment/commercial acumen
Tenacity and energy in leading change towards an effective work environment.
Ability to communicate effectively in English to direct and motivate teams and stakeholders at all levels of the organization
Strong analytical skills and process focus
Ability to anticipate, negotiate & manage conflicts, problems, changing situations & deadlines
Able to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic and virtual environment
Very result driven, entrepreneurial, keen to learn and open minded

Please submit your CV in English.

About Amcor
Amcor is the global leader in developing and producing responsible consumer packaging and dispensing solutions across a variety of materials for nutrition, health, beauty and wellness categories. Our global product innovation and sustainability expertise enables us to solve packaging challenges around the world every day, producing a range of flexible packaging, rigid packaging, cartons and closures that are more sustainable, functional and appealing for our customers and their consumers. We are guided by our purpose of elevating customers, shaping lives and protecting the future. Supported by a commitment to safety, over 75,000 people generate $23 billion in annualized sales from operations that span over 400 locations in more than 40 countries.
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