Supply Chain Manager - Hong Kong
Vacancy date: 15/09/2006
Department: Buying and Merchandising
Salary range: HK$ 600,000 - 650,000
Job Role
To efficiently and cost effectively control all far east imports into the UK through management of the Supply Chain and Quality Assurance Functions in the Hong Kong Office
Responsibilities
- To create and manage shipment plan, ensuring all timelines are achieved
- Timely information on exception management
- Professional communication with vendors and UK
- Accurately maintain shipping information and process documentation
- Processing of orders placed in UK
- Highlighting and resolve issues as they arise.
- Reporting accurate info to relevant departments (eg. Merchandisers, Imports, Supply Chain)
- Management and development of supply chain and quality assurance staff
- Create a great working environment and facilitate teamworking.
- Work closely with Product Development team and Buyers to highlight and resolve issues.
Accountability
- Efficient running of the Hong Kong Office
- Personnel within supply chain and quality assurance department (circa 5)
- Shipping plan and records
- Product shipping cycle
- Vendors management and communication
- Communication of shipping programme
- System management and updating records
- Reporting
- Continuous Improvement
Measures
- Inventory reduction
- Shipping ETA met
- Documentation and data accuracy
- Personnel within department achieve personal and development targets
- Speed of response
- Staff turnover
UK Links
- Primary liaison with Imports Manager on:
- Container shipping, ETA & Tracking
- Information & Issues
- Liaise with Merchandisers & Replenishment Manager on product scheduling
- Liaise with UK Supply Chain Controller on day to day issues
Key Skills and Experience
- Degree Graduate
- 10 Years Logistics, Supply Chain or similar experience
- Proven people management skills within similar environment
- Leadership and Teamworking Skills
- Experience of setting and managing departmental budgets.
- Business process change experience
- English, Chinese and Mandarin speaker.
Person Specification
- Commercial understanding and able to make decisions.
- Strategic thinker but able to attend to the details
- Self-reliant and resilient with a pro-active approach to problem solving
- Drive, enthusiasm and tenacity to succeed
- Well developed influencing skills – able to present clear and evidence based arguments to justify recommendations.
- Strong communicator with excellent written and verbal skills who can interact with both team and colleagues. Able to listen as well as talk.
- A leader able to motivate team.
- Committed to both personal and team development.