Supply Chain Manager

In this role you will provide leadership for the Supply Chain Services team which includes; Material Planners, Analysts, Forecasting and Traffic. This position reports directly to the Managing Director of Operations and will work closely with Operations, Finance and other departments.
Duties:* Develop and deploy the supply chain service expert, based on existing services to existing customers (package and develop products and services based on real operational experience to be resold), on market demand and on insights.
* Provide Supply Chain BD expert support to BD opportunities.* Develop own BD opportunities, in close communication with BD.
* Process/KPI/systems and tools owner for Supply Chain.* Provide internal Supply Chain services to Ops and Product Sales.
* Optimize, develop and maintain Supply Chain and Operational processes.* Support in starting up new branches/projects.
* Support and coordinate customer and supplier problems in cooperation with Ops.* Follow-up and coordinate change management.
* Manage inventory, obsolescence and packaging.* Develop, Optimize and maintain freight strategies and cost by building up long term partnerships.
* Escalate market and organizational needs and opportunities and work on continuous improvement projects to adapt to the changing and challenging environment.* Train, coach and manage the local team as well as remote teams.