Head of Plant Supply Chain

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When you join an organisation, the question many ask is what will life be like? The question we ask you is, what difference will you make? No matter your role within Sanofi Australia and New Zealand, you are able to make a difference. 

Sanofi Consumer Healthcare is a best in class consumer health business with a large portfolio of vitamin, mineral, supplement, over the counter and personal care brands including Telfast, Mersynofen, Betadine, Bisolvon, Dulcolax, Nature’s Own, Cenovis, Ostelin and many more. Our products can be found in thousands of pharmacies, supermarkets and other outlets across the country. As one of Australia’s largest vitamin makers and distributors, we are proud that our team is at the forefront of high quality in-house manufacturing and innovative new product development.

We are seeking a commercially focused Supply Chain Head to join our Brisbane based Manufacturing & Packaging site.  Our state-of-the-art facility operates with a high degree of complexity and a continual focus on improvement in efficiency and quality. 

Responsibilities include:

• Management of a highly effective production plan that reflects business requirements on a daily, weekly, monthly and annual basis
• Timely procurement of materials required to support this plan
• Management of the warehouse including the accuracy and level of stock on site
• Performance and development of the Production planning and warehouse teams
• The design and continual improvement of production planning and procurement systems, including the refinement of the ERP system to improve planning effectiveness
• Establishment and management of production schedules and tracking of performance
• Identification of issues and obstacles to improvement of plan stability, inventory levels, batch sizes, manufacturing costs, capacity utilisation, customer service levels, Plant Cycle time (PCT), supplier performance and involvement in the improvement of these outcomes
• The optimisation of inventory levels and administration of the cyclic stocktaking program to ensure maintained high levels of stock accuracy and minimisation of Slow Moving / Obsolete Stock (SLOB)
• Management of the departmental budget
• Ensuring compliance of company and regulatory policies, procedures and objectives within the planning department

Key criteria for this role include:

• 5-10 years’ experience in Supply Chain Management from an FMCG or Pharmaceutical environment
• Experience in contributing to the development of a customer focused planning department including ongoing cross functional relationships
• A strong proven safety approach and focus  
• Exceptional leadership capability with a focus on growing and developing your team
• Excellent relationship, influencing and customer service skills
• A Business, logistics or related qualification   
• Advanced knowledge in SAP and Microsoft office including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong Technical problem solving and analysis skills and a proven ability to manage project budgets and schedules
• The ability to prioritise and adapt to a changing environment

As a leading global healthcare company Sanofi considers all candidates equally. We believe in the value of diversity and inclusion and work hard to create workplaces where every person’s voice is heard.

Interested?  Then please apply online via the following link.