Unit Manager- Supply Chain

Unit Manager – Supply Chain

Location: HFH Factory, Pune

About the Company

Alfa Laval contributes to a more sustainable future through engineering innovation. Our global team designs and implements refining, recycling and purifying processes for customers in water purification, clean energy, food production, waste processing, pharmaceutical development and more. Our core competencies are in heat transfer, separation, and fluid handling, with world-class technologies, systems, equipment and services that help customers stay ahead.

About the Role

You will be responsible for the integrated management of planning, conversion, flow and distribution of production materials from raw material state to finished product state. This includes Traffic and Transportation, Production Control, Materials Handling, Materials Planning, Capacity Planning and stores keeping, with Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost as priorities.

You will develop and coordinate the unit, securing that it meets short to mid-term goals and customer expectations while actively working with operational local and global interfaces.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the performance and output of the unit
• Maintain agreed takt time within the supply chain, measurable on DOTp, DOTi & OFLT
• Set and follow up targets for the unit, broken down from factory level within Supply Chain
• Drive development of people and quality of processes – secure ALPS / Lean Six Sigma and other Operations initiatives in the unit
• Run the ALPS Board as per standard, 5S, kaizen, Projects
• Secure Standardized work via SOPs
• Perform audits according to ALPS guidelines
• Support costing update for the unit
• Support and initiate internal development activities together with support functions and projects
• Support Problem Solving & Improvement activities
• Understand and deal with real problems of the unit by being present in the department
• Attend monthly and Quarterly Global Supply Review Meetings
• Responsible for fixing lead time and updating Lead time at GDTL site after approval
• Lead Local S&OP meeting from Operations perspective
• Design Factory capacity and Supply chain process aligned with Forecast including Safety Stocks
• Align overall targets and KPIs to department goals and KPIs
• Develop leadership skill within team and towards stakeholders
• Maintain and develop ESI for own team
• Secure feasible and standard communication plan within team
• Support development of tools to increase flexibility, productivity, order handling, cost calculation
• Analyze process deviations and facilitate root cause analysis and solutions via sourcing, order handling, planning and stores teams
• Ensure good cooperation between other unit managers
• Analyze how forecasted sales volumes affect workshop workload, finished goods stock levels and raw material and components
• Analyze ALPS delivery SB problems on weekly basis and make action plans
• Maintenance of relevant basic data parameters
• Drive / facilitate project work within the department
• Develop and approve Master Production Plan per market requirements and sales channel interface
• Monitor and communicate current workload and capacity situation in workshop
• Secure frozen production schedule minimum next 6 days
• Coordinate shipment efforts with Freight forwarders
• CO2 Tracking and evaluation
• Secure highest level of safety in Stores & Logistics
• Create total overview of department load
• Hands-on experience in D365 roll-out
• Break down Unit's overall targets into targets for each Team / Function
• Follow up targets and take corrective actions in case of deviations
• Make ALPS audits within the Unit and take corrective actions in case of deviations
• Execute organizational changes in agreement with FM
• Delegate tasks in the organization
• Set salaries within given frame and demonstrate performance culture

Required Qualifications & Experience

• BE Mechanical or Production or equivalent
• Management degree and experience
• Leadership and management skills
• 10 - 15 years of experience from Supply Chain planning
• Production / manufacturing company experience
• Experience from improvement tools, e.g. 5S, Six Sigma, Kaizen, Project work experience
• Strong knowledge of Supply Chain, Planning, Logistics, dispatch & Warehouse functions, processes, methodologies and tools (around 10+ years)
• Walk the Talk
• Product knowledge
• Process knowledge
• In-depth Knowledge of SOP
• Process knowledge: Assembly processes, Lean workflow, aligning department activities

Key Relationships

• Buyers
• Stores
• Logistics
• TMs (Production)
• Sales
• Unit Managers and Other Team Managers
• Engineering & Quality
• Internal customers within Operations

Authority & Responsibilities

• Financial authority to execute within the budget of Logistics
• Break down Unit's overall targets into targets for each Team / Function
• Follow up targets and take corrective actions in case of deviations
• Make ALPS audits within the Unit and take corrective actions in case of deviations
• Execute organizational changes in agreement with FM
• Delegate tasks in the organization
• Set salaries within given frame and follow / pay demonstrate for performance culture

Why Join Us

• Interesting and challenging position in an open and friendly environment
• Help each other to develop and create value for customers
• Exciting place to build a global network with different nationalities
• Your work will have true impact on Alfa Laval's future success
• Learning new things every day
• We care about diversity, inclusion and equity in our recruitment processes
• Behavioral assessments (Pymetrics) applied to help identify candidate fit
• Every day offers opportunities to make positive impact on colleagues, partners, customers and society
• Pioneering solutions for energy, food, water and shipping
• Innovative, open spirit rooted in 140-year-old start-up culture
• Build your career while shaping a more resourceful, less wasteful world

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