Senior Team Leader Supply Chain ANZ

The Senior Team Leader role exists to manage and supervise the team responsible for the delivery of services related to Supply Chain within the Lead to Stock and Order to Cash area.

The Senior Team Leader will manage a team of Supply Chain Experts that have primary responsibility for providing analytical support to the Castrol Demand Management process; covering activities across Demand Planning and Forecasting, Demand Execution and Demand Control; managing the production planning processes for items manufactured by BP plants or Third parties, ensuring we have the right products, at the right time and in the right place to meet customer demand and inventory targets across the performance unit.

The team is also responsible for primary and secondary export distribution, including order entry, availability check and allocation as well as delivery planning and scheduling with the warehouse, freight forwarders and preparation of the necessary export and billing documentation for the customers.

The Senior Chain Team Leader is also the focal/ critical issue point for our 4PL and 3PL logistics partners, production plants, Sales and Demand working together with them on improvements and holding them accountable for providing the most effective solutions.

Functional

KEY

ACCOUNTABILITIES

Lead And Review Operational Performance For The Team Regularly Against The Defined Objectives (Service Level Agreements, Processes, Policies) And Plan Corrective Actions Accordingly To Ensure The Organizations Timely Delivery Of

Demand Management services to Castrol
Production and 3rd Party Planning services
Planning Master data and NPI analytics processes
Export activities, primary and secondary distribution

Lead and/or support external/internal audits, identify and control risk and drive incident investigations.

Ensure adherence and compliance with the Code of Conduct, BP Policies and ISO standards across the Demand Management organization.

Provide relevant support and collaborate with internal and external partners (Third parties) and customers as the need arises to resolve issues and queries, manage the operational relationship with the Supply Chain function

Demand Management

Coordinate consolidated response to regional Demand activities including prioritization of Customer Demand, focal point for the Regional Demand Organization.
Production planning & Deployment

Requisition planning:
Creates a robust and feasible packed goods deployment plan of what needs to be shipped from the source plant location across the distribution network to ensure that stock availability is improved, and stock obsolescence is minimized
Works closely with the rest of the regional planning team to ensure stock is available across the distribution network to meet customer service target levels within agreed inventory budget levels
Creates an achievable production plan for the next 24 months
Works with the S&OP Manager to develop robust plant Rough Cut Capacity Plans (RCCP) for all filling lines and key blenders to resolve capacity imbalances in the medium to long term horizon.
Works closely with the NPI & Product Lifecycle Manager to ensure that product plans are reflected in the production plans and are driven to agreed timelines and deliverables e.g. managing then phase in and phase out of stocks
Working with Master Data Administrators and Plant Schedulers to ensure production planning master data is accurate and reflects reality with regular reviews are in place to drive improvements.
Works with the plant MRP teams to ensure the correct stocking policy is embraced for bulk intermediate oils and the right levels of safety stocks are being planned.
Facilitates the monthly Plant Supply Reviews for the plants in their Cluster.

Export Management

Ensure adherence and compliance to the relevant customs clearance regulations and related tax regulations

Ensure adherence and compliance with ADR regulations (Dangerous Goods regulations)

Ensure adherence and compliance with Excise goods regulations and related taxation

Regularly run analysis on Loss Funnel commitments around drop sizes and transport costs, ensure best transport options are picked, in line with our budgetary…