Senior Director

4 weeks ago


Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford Nanopore Technologies Full time

Oxford Nanopore Technologies is headquartered at the Oxford Science Park outside Oxford, UK, with satellite offices and a commercial presence in many global locations across the US, APAC and Europe.

Oxford Nanopore employs from multiple subject areas including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team, led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera, has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.

Oxford Nanopore’s sequencing platform is the only technology that offers real-time analysis, in fully scalable formats from pocket to population scale, that can analyse native DNA or RNA and sequence any length of fragment to achieve short to ultra-long read lengths. Our goal is to enable the analysis of any living thing, by anyone, anywhere

We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Director Supply Chain Operations to lead and direct the supply chain operations function, executing against the approved S&OP plan while coordinating across functions to deliver business objectives within the S&OE horizon.

The Details...

The Senior Director of Supply Chain Operations works against an approved S&OP plan by managing/collaborating across the end-to-end value chains, dealing with exceptions, and rebalancing demand and supply within the S&OE horizon aiming to achieve minimal disruptions whilst driving functional and business objectives.

Other responsibilities include:

Lead the effort to implement and advocate S&OE: Spearhead the S&OE initiative and champion it across the organization by being the main point of contact for S&OE related queries or discussions. Together with the wider team prepare for the S&OE meetings: Prepare and share a pre-read for the meeting which contains a list of agenda items and data that can inform decision making. Maintain a comprehensive view of demand, supply and financial aspects of supply chain operations and use it to identify short-term executional issues. Highlight ways that link tactical planning with granular execution (in case of significant deviations) to control operational costs. Additionally, identify and highlight risks and opportunities to inform decision making in the S&OE meeting. Facilitate the S&OE meetings: Facilitate the S&OE meetings in the form of a live working sessions, ensuring that all information is presented and discussed, all collaborators are engaged, decisions are made and agreed upon, and execution plans are documented with owners and completion dates. Follow-up post S&OE meetings: Ensure that decisions from the meetings are communicated to each function/department/team to ensure that execution is taking place. Support S&OP: Take the output of S&OE to S&OP as key issues need to be escalated for decisions. Present the impact of cost, inventory or service identified from demand and supply reconciliation from S&OE in S&OP. Highlight the impact of change made in the production and purchasing plans during the S&OE process. Ensure timely decisions and executions via a closed loop between S&OP and S&OE.

Sustain the S&OE process:

Ensure that the S&OE process is sustained to the intended level of maturity. Onboard newcomers from different functions on the process and engage them on the key expectations. Support in hiring and training demand, supply and distribution planners. Maintain tracking of attendees, action plan log, outcomes and summaries of the meeting. Share and reapply best practices with other business units, functions etc.

Improve the S&OE process:

Report metrics to the senior team to track performance and enable/support decision making. Use analytical tools to understand areas for opportunity, change and improvement. Document current process and work with the senior team on continuous improvement, challenges with the process and options to improve the process. Continuously seek feedback from collaborators on the process, meeting effectiveness, metrics and subsequent activities to identify issues to resolve. Periodically conduct health checks on the process and outcome Coach, develop, support and resource the Supply Chain Operations team.

What We're Looking For...

Naturally, you're someone with a background and successful track record of delivering effective execution within a manufacturing supply chain, ideally utilising Microsoft D365 or a similar large enterprise system along with good ERP / DDMRP experience.

You're a strong leader, coordinator and collaborator with proven experience in managing across teams and expect success and high performance. You have expert knowledge in key elements of supply chain management including, forecasting, replenishment planning, sales and operations planning, inventory planning and optimisation, scheduling, manufacturing, logistics (incl. customer fulfilment) and sourcing and solid experience of the financial impacts of supply chain operations..

In addition, you can undertake big picture thinking and present scenarios to other senior managers as well as influencing and driving change/improvement at all levels. We'll expect you to have a Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Finance, Economics or a related discipline and MCIPS or APICS/ASCM certification would be advantageous. Ideally, you've gained experience in a publicly listed science or engineering-based company, or you've worked in regulated markets in both supply and distribution.

This role will suit an experienced Supply Chain Director who is self-motivated and driven, with a positive, can-do attitude and demeanour who wants to work in a high-tech, cutting-edge environment.

We offer outstanding benefits to include an attractive bonus, generous pension contributions, private healthcare and an excellent starting salary. Based within beautiful, landscaped surroundings with tree-lined walks, water features and a lake, all of which make for a wonderful working environment.

If you are looking to utilise your skills to really make a difference to humankind, then consider joining our team and apply today



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