Supply Chain Director

Organisation:

First in class Global Food Company. The company manufactures high-quality ingredients. Supplies manufacturers of food and pharmaceuticals worldwide. With global coverage and further investments coming up, the company has formulated a strong growth strategy for the future.

Location:

The Netherlands

Position description:

Ensures proper functioning and innovation of operations and supply chain processes in line with the strategy. This in order to deliver products according to the requirements of the clients, in a (cost-) efficient way, so that business value is added to the Business Unit (BU).
 

Key Responsibilities:

• Formulates the Supply Chain strategy for the company, consistent with the strategy of the Business Group and BU, which results in midlong term plans for the Supply Chain
• Sets up and implements year plans for the Supply Chain of the BU, including budgets, which gives guidance for the activities of the BU
• Ensures the integration and translation of sales forecasts into adequate production plans and develops and maintains a production organization in order to ensure cost efficient production of the agreed products
• Ensures efficient plan and deliver processes for the BU (SCM, Warehousing, WVA), in order to ensure a cost efficient plan and deliver of the agreed products and the timely delivery of the products to (internal) customers
• Purchase goods and/or services, resulting in the timely availability of goods and/or services under the best possible conditions. Special attention for high qualitative functional ingredients for infant formulas with long lead
• Ensures proper functioning of technical engineering of the Supply Chain in order to ensure hygienic design, food safety and cost efficient production of the agreed products
• Formulates, implements and ensures the execution of quality, food safety and environmental policies for the BU in order to guarantee food safety and quality assurance for the production process and deliver safe high quality products to customers
• Ensures the determination of cost prices based on the alignment of the production planning to the sales forecasts of the client in order to optimize the cost prices so that the BU meet financial targets
• Manage the financial process and Capex / investment programs resulting in the agreed upon investments and financial objectives and insight in financial results of business operations which enable management to steer
• Manage the human resources management process resulting in the desired organizational structure, culture and workforce

Requirements:

• Academic or HBO+ working/thinking level
• Experience in a food (ingredients) environment;
• Supply Chain processes
• Quality assurance and food safety production and technology
• Project management
• Costs and budgets
• Continuous improvement programs
• Able to manage an international supply chain, highly complex, long lead times
• Able to determine and steer business implications of change-management
• Good leadership and communication skills
• Diagnoses and problem solving
• Financial Management skills
• People and Change Management skills
• Crisis management skills

Remuneration:

Excellent remuneration package

Interested?

You can apply to this position by using the link below. For more information please contact:

Kasper Houben
Kantoor: +31 (0) 73 615 47 00
Mobiel: +31 (0) 6 25 07 86 87