Lscm Manager

**LSCM Manager**:
**POSITION SNAPSHOT**:

- JobReq ID: 53292- Type of work: On site- Type of contract: Open-ended/permanent- Full/Part Time: Full time- Location: Johannesburg, ZA:
**LSCM Manager - BSAF**

**Our Company**:
Tokyo-based Bridgestone Corporation is the world’s largest manufacturer of tyres and other rubber products. We employ over 140,000 people around the world, operate 3 technical centers and 178 manufacturing plants and sell products in more than 150 countries. _"Serving Society with Superior Quality”_ has been our mission since Shojiro Ishibashi founded Bridgestone in 1931 and we look for individuals who share our passion to fulfill this mission.

**Role Summary**:
We are looking for a LSCM Manager to join the BSAF Logistics Supply Chain Management team based in Midrand South Africa. This role is responsible for the planning and management of activities related to material/product logistics, aimed to meet pre-determined quantities, quality and deadlines, and the efficiency of operational flows. Coordinates materials supply, storage, distribution, and order delivery, seeking the optimization of available resources to meet the needs of the Production and Sales areas. Develops studies and determines strategies to enhance the efficiency of the processes.

Given the cross-functional participation involved, you will create and maintain relationships with different stakeholders (eg. Supply Chain, Finance, Manufacturing, Product management, branches, and countries) in the organization.

**Key qualities**: You must have constant quest for innovative improvement, rigor, excellent relational capacities for managing teams and faultless sense of organization.

**Role Requirements**:

- A Business Management, Logistics or Supply Chain Management Degree or similar.
- 8 years or more in a same or similar role within the tyre manufacturing or similar would be advantageous.
- At least 5 years’ experience in a managerial role.
- Experience in working for a global company would be advantageous.
- Experience in leading team in a VUCA environment and maintaining a positive team climate.

**Main responsibilities**:

- **Demand & Supply Planning** - Key Leader/Stakeholder in S&OP Process to find optimal balance on demand and supply including inventory levels to achieve business objectives.
- **Distribution Centre Operations** - EHS-Zero Incident Culture, Capacity Optimisation, Warehouse Operations - Inbound / Outbound Flows, Storage & Inventory Management Strategies, Tools and Processes, 3PL Management.
- **Logistics Planning & Optimization** - Ensure Cost To Serve and Service Levels (OTIF) are met
- **Transportation & Fleet Operations** - Defining optimal transportation route in Transportation Operations, Fleet Management, 3PL’s
- **Supports business execution** of new programs and initiatives eg network redesigns, DX use cases, ERP upgrade / related projects
- **Monitors key sales and operations planning performance** indicators, cost-to-serve performance data, Key KPI’s and coordinates cross-functional work teams to increase effectiveness of supply chain initiatives.
- **Support Collaborative Improvement Projects** to improve CX (customer experience) and DX (digital experience) to drive more value in the supply chain upstream and downstream using various techniques with focus on tools, processes, people on all material, financial and information flows
- **Identify and Manage Risks** in the value chain and appropriate mitigation plans

**Bridgestone Behaviors**:

- Agility - to work in a matrix, complex and fast paced environment.
- Courage - to share ideas, challenge the status quo.
- Ownership - to see the bigger picture and take ownership by thinking and acting beyond the role (self-starter).

**Bridgestone Leadership Essence**:

- **Establishes strategic direction and effectively communicates the vision**: Communicates a clear and inspiring vision for the business; drives competitive and innovative strategies and is able to generate alignment against the strategic direction
- **Demonstrates business acumen to achieve results through others**: Understands, educates and applies the fundamental business concepts by which a company operates in order to deliver results and create a climate that fosters personal commitment to excellence
- **Promotes and enhances company culture**: Champions the organization’s shared values and beliefs
- **Effectively manages across cultures**: Achieves effective collaboration, alignment, and communication across multiple dimensions of cultural diversity
- **BOSS focused - serves the customers having the end users in mind**: Makes BOSS (end users) and their needs a primary focus of one’s actions; develops and sustains productive relationships with BOSS; leverages BOSS intimacy in the development of new products, services and competitive advantage
- **Demonstrates self-awareness and emotional intelligence**:Recognizes one’s personal strengths, weaknesses, opportunitie