Supply Chain Excellence and S&OP Manager, ASEAN

ABOUT YOUR ROLE:

As the Supply Chain Excellence & S&OP Manager, you will be the strategic architect of our regional value chain. This is a high-impact, cross-functional leadership role focused on synchronizing demand, supply, and capacity to ensure business agility. You will not only manage the rhythm of our S&OP cycles but also lead the charge in 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.

You will be based in Bangi / Kajang, Malaysia.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:

1. Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)

• Orchestrate the S&OP Process: Lead monthly regional S&OP meetings, facilitating alignment between Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Operations.

• Balance Ecosystems: Act as the primary point of contact to 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.

2. 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: Lead 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.

3. 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: Design and govern a regional KPI framework focused on "North Star" metrics: Forecast Accuracy, Cost to Serve, Capacity Utilization, OTIF, and Inventory Turns.

• Digitalization & Automation: Lead ASEAN digital roadmap. 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: Lead 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: Standardize "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.

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: Lead and optimize the end-to-end execution of purchase and inventory replenishment cycles, ensuring optimal stock levels while maintaining service level

• Distribution strategy: Formulate and execute comprehensive distribution strategies to ensure the achievement of a resilient and optimized distribution network

• Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary liaison between Sales, Finance, and Operations to align supply strategies with business goals and manage relationships with external vendors to ensure service reliability

5. Other Responsibilities

• Strategic Initiatives: Drive departmental goals by spearheading 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 leadership to address evolving business needs and organizational objectives.

WHAT WE WILL BE LOOKING FOR IN YOU:

• Experience: Minimum of 8–15 years in Supply Chain Management, with at least 4 years specifically leading S&OP, Production Planning, or Supply Chain Excellence initiatives within a regional role or an equivalent complex supply chain setting.

• Production Planning Expertise: Deep understanding of Master Production Scheduling (MPS) and shop-floor constraints; proven ability to bridge the gap between high-level regional demand and detailed factory execution.

• Regional Scope: Proven track record of managing complex, multi-country operations, ideally within ASEAN.

• 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.