Senior Supply Chain Manager

What this Job Entails: 

The Senior Supply Chain Manager at Astreya is a strategic leadership role pivotal in driving end-to-end supply chain operations for our largest strategic account. This role demands more than just operational oversight; it requires a visionary leader capable of shaping supply chain strategy, owning client relationships, and structuring global teams for maximum efficiency.

You will take full ownership of the ecosystem: from Order Management and 3PL coordination to high-level demand planning, ensuring that our logistics and inventory strategies align perfectly with the client’s fast-paced infrastructure requirements.

Your Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Strategic Leadership & Organizational Structure

• Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a global team of supply chain planners, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and high performance. The team works across all time zones, and requires a flexible approach to managing a diverse team based remotely. 

• Order Orchestration: Take full responsibility for the Order Orchestration function. You will oversee the coordination of remote deployments and returns, managing Third-Party Logistics (3PL) partners to ensure seamless execution and adherence to SLAs.

• Advanced Inventory Strategy: Delve into intricate inventory challenges, crafting solutions to address stock imbalances, demand surges, and inventory turnover.

2. Client Partnership & Business Intelligence

• Vendor Management: Cultivate robust relationships with vendors, ensuring deliveries are on-time and in-full, and ensuring vendors meet or exceed their contractual obligations. 

• Cross-functional collaboration: Act as a functional leader, guiding teams and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure cohesive supply chain & logistics efforts and optimized performance.

• Strategic Management: Develop and execute long-term supply chain strategies that align with company goals, focusing on efficiency, cost reduction, and process optimization.

• Executive Business Reviews: Lead the narrative during Weekly, Monthly & Quarterly Business Reviews (WBR/MBR). Present data-driven insights, performance trends, and strategic improvements directly to top management and client stakeholders.

3. Operational Execution & Logistics

• Demand Planning: Collaborate with various departments to forecast demand accurately, ensuring supply plans align with customer needs and business goals.

• Inventory Control & Strategy: Manage complex inventory challenges, addressing stock imbalances, demand surges, and turnover. Ensure optimal stock levels are maintained to reduce excess and waste.

• Comprehensive Reporting: Deliver in-depth reports and insights to top management during weekly, monthly & quarterly reviews, highlighting supply chain performance, challenges, blockers and areas for growth.

• Customer Service Excellence: Champion the delivery of top-tier customer service throughout the supply chain. Ensure that all processes, from procurement to final delivery, are customer-centric and aim to exceed client expectations. 

• Cost Management: Oversee budgeting and cost management efforts, aiming to minimize expenses without compromising quality or efficiency.

• Risk Management: Proactively identify potential supply chain disruptions, developing and implementing risk mitigation strategies.

• Regulatory & Policy Compliance: Ensure compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and ethical standards, and provide regular reports on supply chain performance and metrics.

• Process Optimization: Continuously assess and improve supply chain processes, implementing best practices and innov