Supply Chain Manager at Novartis International AG

Job ID: 222014BR
Location: Lagos
Functional Area: Technical Operations
Job Type: Full Time
Employment Type: Regular

Job Description

• Leading the demand and supply management processes and ensuring that they are in line with the agreed business targets.
• Ensure effective inventory management in the local organizations.
• Inventory and write off management of the country/region.
• Ensuring commercial/site team compliance of the invoicing policy.
• Negotiation of supply plan with suppliers.
• Ensuring demand forecasting data generated in finance, marketing and sales with support of the Country Head.
• Ensuring demand analysis and consumption tracking is carried out on behalf of the business.
• Support launches and new products supply set ups
• Pricing negotiations for (TPC, SPR requests) private and tenders pricing
• Provide link between 3rd party customer and sites, payment and LC follow-up
• Support site registration processes in countries
• Support new markets development
• Responsible for measuring forecasting accuracy and feeding trends to marketing.
• Drive improvements in working capital management.
• Facilitate best practice sharing/standardized processes.
• Monitor and improve Global SCM KPI’s for country/region (such as PA, Sales Forecast Accuracy, stock out, write-off).
• Identify, kick-off and support SC projects to improve the regional performance.
• Implementation, support as well as training of new tools within the region (e.g. NRC). Ensure proper tool usage in operational environment.
• Process owner and Expert of dedicated supply chain and forecasting processes to ensure process adherence within supply chain and related functions.

Minimum Requirements

• University degree in Business, Finance, Statistics, Economics, or related degree English 5 - 7 years Experience in Supply Chain Management & Logistics or a related role