Senior Supply Chain Excellence and S&OP Executive

ABOUT YOUR ROLE: As a Senior Supply Chain Excellence & S&OP Executive, you will focus on synchronizing demand, supply, and capacity to ensure business agility. You will not only manage the rhythm of our S&OP cycles but also influence the digitalization and end-to-end (E2E) efficiency transformation across the ASEAN region as well as managing the supply to the region. The ideal candidate is a blend of a master planner, a data scientist, and a change agent. YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE: 1. Supply Chain Excellence & E2E Efficiency Holistic Process Transformation: Identify structural bottlenecks across the E2E value chain (suppliers to final mile). Drive cost-out and efficiency initiatives using a diverse process improvement toolkits. Performance Architecture: Maintain a regional KPI framework focused on "North Star" metrics: Forecast Accuracy, Cost to Serve, Capacity Utilization, OTIF, and Inventory Turns. Digitalization & Automation: Partner closely with the Regional Supply Chain teams to automate manual workflows, ensuring seamless tool adoption and shifting the organization toward automated, data-led supply chain. Inventory & Working Capital Optimization: Manage Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization (MEIO) to balance regional stock positioning. Dynamically manage safety stock and lead-time parameters to maximize service levels while minimizing tied-up capital. Network Resilience & Agility: Initiate and maintain "Best Practice" operating models across ASEAN to enhance regional responsiveness. Leverage digital visibility and data-driven insights to mitigate disruptions, improve agility, and optimize the total Cost-to-Serve across the end-to-end network. 2. Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) Orchestrate the S&OP Process: facilitate monthly regional S&OP meetings and the alignment between Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Operations. Balance Ecosystems: Balance demand forecasts with supply capabilities and manufacturing capacity. Scenario Planning: Develop "What-If" scenarios to mitigate risks and capitalize on market opportunities within the volatile ASEAN landscape. 3. Rough Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP) & Resource Validation Demand Validation: Verify RCCP outputs against S&OP demand, ensuring high-accuracy inputs for forecast volumes, UEE, run rates, and planning coefficients. Capacity Modeling: Analyze plant/DC constraints and production calendars to generate short-to-long-term capacity projections and identify bottlenecks. Scenario Planning: Present Base/Upside/Downside scenarios to S&OP, recommending strategic actions like load shifting, campaign planning, and capacity flexing. Operational Governance: Facilitate RCCP alignment meetings and track Actual vs. Plan performance to optimize utilization, inventory levels, and cost. Digital Visibility: Maintain and enhance RCCP dashboards to provide real-time visibility into capacity loading and future risks. 4. Supply Management Process and master data: Uphold and oversee the governance of the purchase and supply process & master data across ASEAN Purchase and inventory management execution: Optimize the end-to-end execution of purchase and inventory replenishment cycles, ensuring optimal stock levels while maintaining service level Distribution strategy: Execute comprehensive distribution strategies to ensure the achievement of a resilient and optimized distribution network 5. Other Responsibilities Strategic Initiatives: Drive departmental goals by participating in projects in standardization, digitalization, and process optimization to continuously elevate regional supply chain efficiency. Agile Business Support: Execute high-priority tasks and specialized projects as assigned by manager to address evolving business needs and organizational objectives. Experience: Minimum of 5 years of related experience in S&OP, Production Planning, or Supply Chain Excellence functions. Analytical Rigor: Advanced proficiency in data modeling and supply chain analytics tools. Strategic Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills; ability to distill complex supply chain data into actionable insights for C-suite executives while maintaining strong influence with local operational teams. Project Management: Demonstrated expertise in leading large-scale transformation projects; proficient in managing timelines, cross-functional resources, and change management to deliver digitalization or process optimization goals. Leadership: Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to drive consensus across diverse regional functions (Sales, Finance, and Manufacturing). Education: Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, or Business. An MBA or professional certification (e.g., APICS CSCP/CPIM, PMP) is highly preferred. AVERY DENNISON IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER.