Senior Supply Chain Excellence and S&OP Manager, ASEAN

ABOUT YOUR ROLE: As the Supply Chain Excellence & S&OP Manager, you will be the strategic architect of our regional value chain. This is a high-impact, cross-functional leadership role focused on synchronizing demand, supply, and capacity to ensure business agility. You will not only manage the rhythm of our S&OP cycles but also lead the charge in digitalization and end-to-end (E2E) efficiency transformation across the ASEAN region as well as managing the supply to the region. The ideal candidate is a blend of a master planner, a data scientist, and a change agent. You will be based in Rayong - Thailand   YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE: 1. Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) • Orchestrate the S&OP Process: Lead monthly regional S&OP meetings, facilitating alignment between Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Operations. • Balance Ecosystems: Act as the primary point of contact to balance demand forecasts with supply capabilities and manufacturing capacity. • Scenario Planning: Develop "What-If" scenarios to mitigate risks and capitalize on market opportunities within the volatile ASEAN landscape. 2. Rough Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP) & Resource Validation • Demand Validation: Verify RCCP outputs against S&OP demand, ensuring high-accuracy inputs for forecast volumes, UEE, run rates, and planning coefficients. • Capacity Modeling: Analyze plant/DC constraints and production calendars to generate short-to-long-term capacity projections and identify bottlenecks. • Scenario Planning: Present Base/Upside/Downside scenarios to S&OP, recommending strategic actions like load shifting, campaign planning, and capacity flexing. • Operational Governance: Lead RCCP alignment meetings and track Actual vs. Plan performance to optimize utilization, inventory levels, and cost. • Digital Visibility: Maintain and enhance RCCP dashboards to provide real-time visibility into capacity loading and future risks. 3. Supply Chain Excellence & E2E Efficiency • Holistic Process Transformation: Identify structural bottlenecks across the E2E value chain (suppliers to final mile). Drive cost-out and efficiency initiatives using a diverse process improvement toolkits. • Performance Architecture: Design and govern a regional KPI framework focused on "North Star" metrics: Forecast Accuracy, Cost to Serve, Capacity Utilization, OTIF, and Inventory Turns.  • Digitalization & Automation: Lead ASEAN digital roadmap. Partner closely with the Regional Supply Chain teams to automate manual workflows, ensuring seamless tool adoption and shifting the organization toward automated, data-led supply chain. • Inventory & Working Capital Optimization: Lead Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization (MEIO) to balance regional stock positioning. Dynamically manage safety stock and lead-time parameters to maximize service levels while minimizing tied-up capital. • Network Resilience & Agility: Standardize "Best Practice" operating models across ASEAN to enhance regional responsiveness. Leverage digital visibility and data-driven insights to mitigate disruptions, improve agility, and optimize the total Cost-to-Serve across the end-to-end network. 4. Supply Management  • Process and master data: Uphold and oversee the governance of the purchase and supply process & master data across ASEAN • Purchase and inventory management execution: Lead and optimize the end-to-end execution of purchase and inventory replenishment cycles, ensuring optimal stock levels while maintaining service level • Distribution strategy: Formulate and execute comprehensive distribution strategies to ensure the achievement of a resilient and optimized distribution network • Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary liaison between Sales, Finance, and Operations to align supply strategies with busin