Total 2 job vacancies by Avery Dennison

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.

ABOUT LEAD

APAC Graduate Program-Leadership Experience and Accelerated Development (LEAD)

The LEAD program is an accelerated growth career program that takes two years on average and emphasizes your experience in leadership and career development. The program has a comprehensive framework, depending on your chosen field, that covers on-the-job training through sub-functional and cross-functional rotations, stretch assignments and learning and training.

When you embark on your journey with us, you will participate in two-week onboarding programs to learn about the company and all important areas of the organization. You will also be guided by various managers at different stages of the program and coached by a mentor who is usually a leader of the organization.

Upon successful completion of the program, you will be assessed on your overall performance and, if performing well, will be offered a job placement. You will also be paired with a program associate who will serve as a buddy to provide mutual support throughout the journey.

ABOUT YOUR ROLE : 

As a LEAD Associate - SUPPLY CHAIN,

• Begin with rotations through core Supply Chain sub-functions, including Planning, Logistics and Order Fulfilment.

• Following the initial Supply Chain rotations, you will have the opportunity to rotate into cross-functional areas such as Operations, Marketing and Sales. This provides a holistic view, equipping you with business knowledge essential for excelling in Supply Chain.

• Each rotation will vary in length, typically lasting between 2 to 8 months, depending on the scope of the assigned projects and tasks.

• In each rotation, a dedicated manager, in addition to your line manager, will be assigned to provide direct guidance.

• A senior mentor, often a member of the leadership team, will be assigned to support your career development and help you navigate the organization.

• Develop technical, functional, and leadership skills within the Supply Chain.

WHAT WE OFFER AFTER THE PROGRAM:

The LEAD program is designed exclusively to develop future leaders who will drive Avery Dennison's business and market growth at all levels. Exceptional performance during the initial 6-month review period and before program completion could lead to an accelerated permanent position, equivalent to 3–4 years of professional experience.