Vacancy title:
Supply Chain Lead
Jobs at:
Medtronic LABSDeadline of this Job:
26 October 2021
Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed
JOB DETAILS:
The incumbent will serve as the point-person for leading the SCM function across Medtronic Labs operations in Africa – currently across Kenya and Ghana, but rapidly expanding to 8+ countries in East and West Africa. Problem solving attitude, analytics, communication and collaboration are all crucial for success in this role.
Key Responsibilities
• Building a deep understanding on the multiple Labs social businesses – field operational model, financial model – to build the right supply chain strategy.
• Supporting field commercial teams with the systems and processes needed to support their rapid growth and help them achieve the revenue and impact targets.
• Supporting the existing supply chain requirements in Kenya and Ghana, and also plan for expansion into Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia and other countries in the coming 2 quarters.
• Analyzing product mix trends with sales and marketing functions, create ordering plans and manage safety stock to ensure product availability while also reducing risk of obsolescence.
• Building trackers and dashboards for management reporting as well as to provide stock updates to field teams on real-time basis.
• Creating supply chain strategies for a highly dynamic product mix to ensure optimal resource utilization.
• Managing product suppliers and drive better relationships, ordering cycles/systems to further improve business margins and profitability.
• Assessing and evaluate the changing regulatory requirements in the countries and flag regulatory updates, if needed.
• Assessing regulatory requirements for new countries being planned for business expansion, and execute on their required regulatory filings (if needed) in partnership with the right agencies/vendors.
• Building a consolidated supply chain management strategy over next 1.5-2 years for multiples countries across Africa.
• Travel: Up to 15%, including international within Africa.
Qualifications
• Minimum 6 years experience in supply chain management. Healthcare and FMCG sector is preferred.
• MBA/equivalent Master's degree.
• Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills.
• Proficient in Excel. Previous experience in analytics and excel modeling.
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 72
Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
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