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GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGER

1. // Vervuld
2. GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGER

// Vervuld, Management, Supply Chain

Geplaatst 3 jaar geleden

General information

Orffa develops, customizes, sources and offers feed additives and feed additive concepts for the animal nutrition market. In short: we create, select and deliver.

As the feed additive specialist, we have dedicated teams engineering feed solutions with value added products and concepts for all stakeholders in the animal production chain. Our feed solutions range from simple individual products to complex solutions that aim to overcome and solve the challenges faced by the animal production industry.

We offer both in-house developed and branded concepts and products as well as distribution products. We deliver the ideal mix of technical products and basic feed additives. Europe is our home base, and EU quality prevails. Orffa is a knowledge and product platform. We engineer solutions. Consequently, the constant monitoring of market needs, novel technical developments and new production sites is of paramount importance to constantly raise our standards and image. Our teams of technical and commercial engineers, as well as our innovation teams, are committed to meeting customer needs. Our sourcing team is also constantly active at the global level to assure an influx of new products and concepts and to find the right partners for our outsourced production.

We focus on innovation and development, on regulatory affairs and quality control, on logistics, sourcing and service, and on marketing and sales. We outsource R&D, warehousing, logistics and production to close partners who are specialists in their domains. Orffa's experts control, organize and manage. They are in close contact with our partners on a daily basis and assume final responsibility. Intellectual property is safeguarded by exclusive contracts and patents.

Long-term partnerships are the key to our successful implementation of this model. This is Orffa's way of continuously improving processes without losing the focus on our core competence, which is to engineer feed solutions. It is how we constantly reinvent and challenge ourselves as a market leader and ensure that we keep meeting the increasingly demanding requirements of the feed industry.

Koetsier Executive Search is for Orffa in search of a Global Supply Chain Manager.

Job description

Job Title

Global Supply Chain Manager

Position within the Company

The Global Supply Chain Manager will report directly to the Chief Operational Officers.

Location

(NL)

Duties and Responsibilities

The Global Supply Chain Manager will be responsible for:

• Accountable for the Customer Operations department, overseeing the lifecycle of the products, shipping documentation and insurance claims;
• Driving continuous improvement in all activities, ensuring operational excellence;
• Streamlining the production process by optimizing the Sales & Operations Planning and forecasting and therefore working closely with the Regional Managers, the Commercial Managers and the two Chief Operating Officers;
• Geographic fine-tuning of inbound and outbound logistics (including inventory management);
• An efficient and smooth labelling and packaging process;
• Initiating and implementing process improvements and new logistic concepts;
• Improving logistic service in terms of people, quality, costs, communication and automation in a constantly evolving environment;
• Continuous focus on cost;
• Pro-actively identifying (recurring) problems, formulating and initiating solutions and improvement proposals;
• Establishing and developing relations with senior management, internal stakeholders and external partners.

General information

The Global Supply Chain Manager contributes to and supports the development of Orffa globally with efficient, creative and innovative logistic processes and is accountable for the optimization and constant improvement of customer service, logistic administration and toll production/contract manufacturing. Therefore, the Global Supply Chain Manager needs to maintain a close interaction with all internal stakeholders. Leading the Logistics Team of in total 10-12 FTE.

The person

Education

Bachelor's degree in e.g. Business Administration, Operations and/or Supply Chain/Logistic Management.

Knowledge and Experience

At least 5-7 years of experience as a Supply Chain Manager/Logistic Manager within the international Food, Feed, Chemical and/or FMCG industry. You are an experienced leader/people manager with international (shipping) experience and logistic processes. and You are fluent in English (orally and written).

Characteristics

In relation to personal qualities to be fulfilled by the candidate, we are strictly limiting to those qualities which are essential for a successful result:

• result oriented
• analytical
• communicator and motivator
• self-starting/hands-on
• energetic
• innovative
• persuasive
• leader and organiser
• creativity
• problem solving
• cross functional team player
• pro-active
• sense of humour