Global Supply Chain Director

2 weeks ago

Durban, South Africa Maxwell and Spark Full time

**Maxwell and Spark is looking for a Global Supply Chain Director**

**Who are we?/About us**
**Maxwell+Spark** is a multinational Greentech company with primary offices in Durban, South Africa and Rotterdam, The Netherlands. We offer our industrial users cost-reducing, low carbon alternatives to traditional energy sources.

**Maxwell+Spark** invites passionate, forward-thinking individuals to join us in shaping the future of industrial mobility, and creating cool tech, for a cooler world.

**Opportunity/Job Purpose**
Leading the global production and distribution of Maxwell+Spark products to reliably deliver high quality products within specification and cost, and on time; thereby ensuring highly satisfied customers. Building and improving the supply chain teams, processes and controls to enable Maxwell+Spark to scale rapidly, in line with its growth ambitions.

**What will you do?**
**Role and Responsibilities may include but are not limited to**:
**General Responsibilities**:
**Strategy**:

- Build the company’s supply chain strategy.

**Co-ordination**:

- Ensure that the supply chain department, and its systems, integrate seamlessly with other departments and their people and systems.
- Create coordinated plans for business growth.
- Ensure supply chain divisions integrate seamlessly with one another.
- Control process flow: Assess and optimise existing SOP’s, implement new SOP’s where necessary.
- Ensure staff are correctly trained, particularly on new processes.
- Obtain buy-in for system changes across departments where necessary.

**Analysis and reporting**
- Lead executive team and board reporting on supply chain / operations.
- Establish, evaluate and report on department KPIs.
- Analyse data from shipping and delivering processes to find bottlenecks and other issues.
- Maintain supply chain inventory and records.

**Optimisation**
- Grow and build the supply chain team as the company expands.
- Manage, train and guide employees.
- Find efficient and cost-effective solutions for supply chain processes.
- Resolve issues (e.g. delays in delivery, accidents).
- Develop and implement safety guidelines in all aspects of the supply chain (e.g. use of trucks, forklifts).
- Ensure supply chain processes meet legal requirements and standards.

**Functional areas of responsibility**:
**Production**:

- Management and growth of current production sites in Durban, South Africa and Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
- Identify additional site needs as required and lead the establishment and management thereof.
- Responsible for production efficiency, throughput, delivery to schedule, cost and quality.
- Co-ordination with all departments involved such as Sales, Procurement, Finance and Engineering.
- Establish production systems e.g. floor management systems
- Work with production engineer to optimise production processes and equipment.

**Warehousing**:

- Ensuring effective stock control is maintained across all warehouses and stores, balancing working capital needs against production throughput and growth requirements.
- Optimising space and flow to ensure efficient operations.
- Ensure integrations of warehousing systems with the rest of supply chain.

**Logistics**:

- Monitor logistics to make sure they run smoothly.
- Managing complex and time sensitive shipments.
- Selecting and vetting suppliers.
- Logistics strategies per product and region.

**Quality**:

- Manage quality systems and processes.
- Ensure correct equipment is available.
- Quality throughput.
- Reporting.

**Other**:

- ERP
- Facilities
- IT
- Correct and timeous resourcing

**Requirements**:

- 8+ years experience in a production or supply chain environment.
- Experience in international logistics, both sea freight and air freight will be a plus.
- Experience in a rapidly scaling, entrepreneurial business would be a plus.
- Excellent knowledge of supply chain processes.
- Extensive experience of ERP software (ideally Microsoft Business Central).
- Knowledge of PowerBI would be a plus.
- Strong communication skills.
- Excellent organizational and project management skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Creative problem-solving.
- A strategic and analytical mind.
- Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, or similar field.
- Experience implementing and operating with ISO9001 processes.

**Culture Fit**:

- Ability and passion in implementing new processes that effect various parts of the company in a high growth, entrepreneurial environment.
- A natural focus on delivering simplicity, quality and speed vs elaborate processes.
- Strong ability to communicate to create alignment and buy-in for your vision and execution plans.
- Proactive attitude and the ability to understand and work in a multi-disciplinary environment.

**Offering - Salary and Benefits**:
**Salary and Benefits**:

- Market related remuneration, depending on experience, skills and qualifications.
- Rapid salary increases upon strong performance.
- Medical

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