Sr. Supply Chain Manager

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets.

We’re driven by our vision of ‘Food and Companionship Enriching Life’ and our approach to sustainability – the Elanco Healthy Purpose™ – to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment.

We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success.

Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

Primary Function

The Head of Supply Chain including planning, logistic and warehouse teams in Supply Center Chengdu.

This position is responsible and accountable to demand forecast, production planning, material planning, imports & exports, inventory management, warehousing, and logistics across whole China.

He or She needs to work closely with Business and Sales Operations teams to get insight from market, reflects market trend and work on flexible and reliable production planning, including smooth material supply and products to customers, to support the company’s business goal.

Primary Accountabilities/Responsibilities


* Leads planning function to coordinate with key stakeholders (commercial team, Sales Operations, production, Supply Center Kiel, Supply Chain team in Headquarter) to manage forecast, to set up production/RM&PM short term and long-term planning/MRP according to rolling forecast and capacity.

Ensure finish goods and RM/PM inventory, to balance inventory and risk of OOS.


* Leads material planning function to ensure smooth supply, optimize material planning to achieve balance between inventory level and risk of supply shortage, leads planning team to set up production/RM&PM short term and long-term planning/MRP according to rolling forecast and capacity.

To sure the product supply service level could achieve company targets


* Leads logistic function, including imports and exports tasks, also ensure smooth supply to all domestic customers.


* Managing warehousing team, including site warehouse and external warehouse (rent), ensure the safe operation of warehousing activities, and cost optimization of warehouse storage.


* Building and improvement the quality/HSE system in the SC department.

To sure the quality and HSE system could achieve national and Bayer standard.

No critical observation in local and internal audit


* Coach and develop own co-workers to establish a professional team

Minimum Qualification:


* Bachelor or above degree, majored in Business Management, Supply Chain or relating subject.
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