Senior Supply Chain Management (SCM) Manager, APAC

This role has overall responsibility for managing the supply chain across the Asia Pacific region.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Own and drive a disciplined, region-wide Sales & Operations Planning process, ensuring alignment across demand, supply, inventory, and capacity planning.

• Identify, prioritize, and lead continuous improvement initiatives across forecasting accuracy, production scheduling, inventory optimization, and supplier supply planning.

• Lead the exceptions management process, proactively identifying risks, gaps, and constraints, and enabling timely, fact-based trade-off decisions with key stakeholders.

• Structure, facilitate, and lead regional S&OP governance and review meetings, ensuring strong process discipline, accountability, and compliance.

• Establish, monitor and track key operational performance indicators (KPIs) including inventory health, service levels, forecast accuracy, and supply reliability.

• Drive actions to identify, reduce, and eliminate excess and obsolete (E&O) inventory, improving working capital efficiency.

• Champion and model Gates core values, continuous improvement mindset, and operational excellence culture across the region.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS:

• Partner with the commercial organization to develop robust processes, systems, and tools that enable accurate product family and SKU-level demand forecasting.

• Collaborate with plant/site operations teams to translate demand forecasts into executable production plans, capacity plans, and inventory targets.

• Work closely with the sourcing and procurement teams to ensure supply planning, supplier capacity, and inventory strategies remain aligned with customer demand.

• Partner with global and regional S&OP leaders to align strategy, governance standards, best practices, and exceptions management.

• Collaborate with IT and digital teams to define, develop, and implement the regional S&OP systems roadmap, analytics, and tool strategy.

MEASURES OF PERFORMANCE:

• Regional KPIs (Delivery, Inventory and Logistics cost, Lean maturity)

• Delivery of improved S&OP projects and processed with priority

• Best Practice/Idea Replication

• Benchmark Comparisons (Internal & External) for World Class Performance

• Achievement of regional operational KPIs, including delivery performance, inventory turns, logistics cost, service levels, and Lean maturity progression.

• Successful delivery of priority S&OP transformation and continuous improvement initiatives, with measurable business impact.

• Replication and scaling of best practices, innovations, and process improvements across sites and regions.

• Performance against internal and external world-class benchmarks, ensuring continuous competitiveness and operational excellence.

• Improvement in forecast accuracy, inventory optimization, and supply responsiveness.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, or related discipline, with a minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in operations, engineering, or supply chain leadership, including direct ownership of S&OP.

• Master's degree preferred.

• Experience in automotive or complex manufacturing systems is highly desirable.

• Strong hands-on experience in Lean Manufacturing, continuous improvement, and operational excellence methodologies.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Demonstrated project and program management expertise, including cross-functional coordination, communication, execution, governance, and post-implementation review.

• Deep knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, statistical analysis, and structured problem-solving methodologies.

• Strong analytical and systems-thinking capabilities, with the ability to translate data into actionable business decisions.

• Highly results-oriented, with a track record of driving measurable business improvements and scalable process solutions.

• Proven ability to influence, coach, and align stakeholders across multiple organizational levels, functions, and geographies.

• Excellent executive-level communication, presentation, and facilitation skills, both verbal and written.

• Strong change leadership skills with the ability to drive adoption of new processes, systems, and behaviors.

WORKING LOCATION:

Jurong East, Industrial Business Park