3P Senior Joint Manager

Job Title

3P Senior Joint Manager

Department

Operations

Reports to

Head of Planning & Logistics

Requirements

Prior experience in 3rd Party manufacturer in FMCG Industry preferably in the GCC

Education Essential

Additional

Graduation Degree. (Candidates with Engineering back ground will be preferred)

SAP experience and also Microsoft Excel

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Scope

To manage Multi location Contract Manufacturing partners on a daily basis

Responsibility Area

Functions

Production Plans

• To prepare the data for the annual budget in terms of last year vs budget vs projections and present to the Manager
• To review the actual vs budgeted cost on a quarterly basis in order to take corrective actions if any so as to meet management objectives
• To identify and close 3P manufacturer in different countries when trade barriers are introduced by Government
• To ensure that the 3rd party is functional from set up to smooth functioning with respect to legal / quality standards / Packaging requirements.
• To finalize on 3rd party Agreement with proper SLAs and commercial requirements.
• To constantly monitor project timelines through Gantt chart and escalate critical path to ensure meeting project deadlines.
• To coordinate smooth transition projects due to change in regulations relaunches NPDs at 3rd party end.
• To ensure the right quality product is produced as per the quality standard set by the quality department.
• To interact with various stakeholders – marketing finance quality R&D and warehouse.

Follow up

• Follow up with all contract manufacturers to ensure Finished goods availability as per dispatch schedule
• Resolution/escalation of problems and issues faced by contract manufacturers related to company while working as per plan.

Report Generation

• Generates different kinds of reports related to production output at 3rd party manufacturer end and provide to the Planning department for S&OP.
• To review the cost data prepared by Finance for the Quarterly review meetings and present key reasons for variances.

Coordination

• Coordination with internal departments to facilitate product availability

KPIs

• Weekly dispatch adherence as per plan
• Price reduction of key ingredients so as to reduce the landed cost
• Reports and data presentation to the manager at proper intervals.