Req ID: 120794Remote Position: NoRegion: AsiaCountry: MalaysiaState/Province: KedahCity: Kulim**General Overview**:**Functional Area**: SCM - Supply Chain Management**Career Stream**: SCM - Supply Chain Management**Role**: Director 1**Job Title**: SCM Director 1**Job Code**: DR1-SCM**Band**: Level 12**Direct/Indirect Indicator**: Indirect**Summary**:This job is the first Director level. Provides direct and indirect supervision to subordinate managers and employees performing highly specialized roles in a major function or division/department within medium to large sites. This includes long-term planning, objective setting, policy formation, interpretation and management while providing latitude and discretion to subordinates. Accountable for projects or programs on a multi-national or global basis. Work requires investigating and resolving a wide variety of highly unusual conditions that carry long-term implications. Requires developing new strategies, policies, practices, methods, programs or techniques and utilizing them to analyze and interpret difficult problems or situations and/or establishing new strategic direction that is site or multi-site specific. Participates with other senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives. Has overall responsibility for planning, budgeting, implementing and maintaining costs, methods and employees in a functional area. Makes final decisions on administrative and operational matters in area of responsibility to ensure achievement of objectives. Erroneous decisions will have a serious impact on the overall success of functional, division, or company operations. Directs and controls the activities of a broad functional area through several department managers. Assigns objectives, reviews performance and approves employee compensation, coaches for improved performance. Regularly interacts with executives and/or major customers. Interactions normally involve controversial situations, customer negotiations, or influencing and persuading other senior level managers. May represent the organization in public speaking venues and/or community events.**Detailed Description**:Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:- Maintains responsibility for all SCM activities for a small or medium site or a segment of the SCM functions at a large site.- Provides leadership and direction to multiple departments on structuring processes, layouts, and resources.- Maintains external contacts to understand best of breed processes to improve costs and logistics offerings.- Implements structure to meet future customer and process requirements.- Provides direction on major projects, such as warehouse software upgrade, Advanced Planning System tool or enhancements.- Provides direction to managers on objective setting, measurements, human resource activities and company procedures.- Has regular interaction, coaching and feedback with direct reports and also, their employees in some situations.- Provides leadership role for broader SCM team including hiring, promotions, and HR practices.- Participates in many cross-functional activities such as formal benchmarking studies; interface with external auditors, and driving actions/ improvement across the organization.- Reviews ISO compliance and SCM business controls. Identifies and implements cost reduction activities.- Communicates with customers relating to, demand, commitments, non-performing inventory and future process changes /improvements.- May have responsibility for working with other Celestica sites, SCM, business development, corporate finance and global account teams to drive inventory management results globally.- Leads tactical and long-term initiatives including process improvements, action plans, training and education and implement capital financing initiatives related to improving cash cycle.**Knowledge/Skills/Competencies**:- Extensive knowledge of an electronic manufacturing environment, materials and processes.- In-depth knowledge and understanding of supply chain management, distribution methods, and global transportation services and inventory management.- Ability to understand the complete supply chain and resolve issues in any area.- Strong knowledge in all areas of import / export, regulatory and logistics management.- Excellent analytical, negotiation and problem resolution skills.- Strong communication and presentation skills.- Able to resolve complex issues & problems internally and externally.- Significant skills required in multi-tasking and time management.- Ability to effectively lead, manage, train and motivate a diverse group of managers and employees.- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers.- Extensive external contacts with consultants, association and other companies for benchmarking and networking.- Able to work effectively cross- functionally and with other
