Supply Chain Director, China

Why Valvoline Global Operations?

Valvoline Global is a worldwide leader in automotive and industrial solutions, creating future-ready products and best-in-class services for partners around the globe. Established in 1866, we introduced the world’s first branded motor oil, claiming our position as The Original Motor Oil. As an affiliate of Aramco, one of the world's largest integrated energy and chemicals companies, we continue to invest strategically and expand globally, driving unparalleled product innovation and sustainable business solutions.

Our corporate values of care, integrity, passion, unified, and excellence shape everything we do. Living out our values is what makes our company, our employees, our partners, our customers, and the communities we serve great.

When you join Valvoline Global, you join a culture that is committed to: treating all people with care, operating with integrity, striving for excellence in everything we do, showing passion about delivering on our commitments, and being unified in all our enterprise endeavors.

Job Summary: 

The Supply Chain Director will be responsible for leading manufacturing, procurement, planning, logistics, customer service and quality for the China market. The role will provide guidance to the team on day-to-day operational decisions as well as drive the strategy and long-range plan to scale the supply chain and team to support rapid business growth in the Asia market.  The Supply Chain Director will lead, coach, and develop the supply chain team to deliver exceptional results and build the capabilities of a best-in-class supply chain organization.

Key responsibilities:

Basic Functions (20%)

• Provides leadership, guidance, and direction to production manufacturing, procurement, planning, logistics, customer service and quality for the China market.
• Partner with the Business Leadership team to develop strategy and execution plan to deliver established financial targets.
• Developing strategic Plans supported by Capital Expenditure and Operational Expense budgets.
• Leads efforts to reduce costs and improve cash flow and asset management throughout the supply chain using lean flow principals.
• Provide for a safe working environment by the implementation of and active support to the local safety programs.
• Ensure maximum compliance with internal and external polices and regulations.
• Develop and drive supply chain talent management processes including the development of talent pipeline for the function.

Plant and 3rd party contract manufacturing (20%)

• Responsible for the organization, planning, compliance, coordination, and execution of the manufacturing operations at our China plants as well as 3rd party plants..
• Lead and coordinate the required internal resources to develop and execute the near and long-term strategy to maximize plant operation efficiency and proactively plan for changing conditions.
• Responsible for a safe, quality consistent, cost effective, and compliant product manufacturing to support business goals

Procurement and cost improvement (15%)

• Lead the development and implementation of procurement strategies.
• Build strategic supplier relationship that deliver cost savings, supply reliability and quality standards of direct and indirect procurement.
• Support the procurement team with the development of category strategies, execution of RFP / RFQ’s, contract strategy and negotiations.

Planning and inventory management (15%)

• Provide guidance around demand, supply, inventory and capacity planning decisions.
• Drive continuous improvement in processes and tools to deliver improved customer service levels and optimal inventory levels.
• Improve the S&OP and demand planning capability to maximize the assert value.

Customer satisfaction improvement (15%)

• Drive continuous improvement in processes and tools to deliver best in class customer service to Valvoline customers.
• Proactively communicate and effectively work through service issues to support the sales team in developing strong customer relationships.
• Responsible for developing and building strong third-party logistics partnerships and operational performance to meet growing business needs, while unlocking opportunities for the improvement and efficiency.

Leadership and people management (15%)

• Create a culture that achieves employee engagement, efficiency, effectiveness, accountability, customer service, productive work relations and sound communications.
• Actively support leadership development programs through participation and ensuring participation of managers under scope of responsibility.

Requirements: 

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree as minimum with a technical or supply chain orientation.

Experience:

• At least 10 years of relevant work experience in leading a supply chain and manufacturing function within an organization.
• Business, planning exposure and/or experience is an asset.

Knowledge专业知识要求:

• System knowledge in MS Office Tools, SAP, Salesforce
• ISO system for both Quality and Safety

Skills:

• Managing Plant and Supply Chain operations                    
• EHS skills                 
• Leadership and people management skills          
• Communication skills                          
• Analytical skill                        
• Strategic thinking    
• Change management.

Language:

• Verbal and written communication skills in Chinese and English.

Attributes and behaviors:

• Proven track record of taking ownership and driving results (Action Oriented)
• Team oriented
• Good listener & good conflict Management
• Good problem-solving skills
• Integrity and honest
• Good Decision Quality

Valvoline Global provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Are you good at what you do? Join us.

The Company has put a process in place to make its recruitment process accessible to any and all users. Reasonable accommodations will be provided, upon request, to applicants with disabilities in order to facilitate equal opportunity throughout the recruitment and selection process. Please contact Human Resources at 1-800-Valvoline or email 1-800Valvoline@valvoline.com to make a request for reasonable accommodation during any aspect of the recruitment and selection process. The contact information is for accommodation requests only; do not use this contact information to inquire about the status of applications.

 Requisition ID: 863