Job Summary
Lead supply chain planning for our manufacturing operations. Develop and optimize demand, supply, and production plans with advanced SAP expertise. Drive seamless integration across Contact Manufacturers, Vendors, and Inhouse Manuffacturing Operations ensuring efficiency, cost effectiveness, and high standard levels.
Key Responsibilities
- End-to-End Planning: Create, maintain, and adjust build plan and supply to the Contract Manufacturers to support manufacturing outputs and inventory targets.
- SAP System Leadership: Utilise SAP Supply Chain modules to streamline planning, forecasting, reporting, and cross-functional data flow. Mentor the team in SAP best practices and troubleshooting.
- Process Integration: Coordinate planning activities with manufacturing, procurement, warehouse, and logistics teams to maintain continuous material and product flow.
- Data Analysis: Use SAP-generated data for monitoring key supply chain KPIs—forecast accuracy, inventory turnover, service levels—and deliver actionable insights.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify process gaps; lead projects to improve planning accuracy, digitalisation, and agility. Champion lean principles and automation.
- Manufacturing Collaboration: Work closely with production and operations managers to match supply chain plans with factory capacity and demand changes.
- Risk Management: Assess and mitigate risks in material supply, production schedules, and inventory; develop contingency strategies for market and operational disruptions.
- Reporting: Prepare clear planning reports and SAP dashboards for leadership review and business decisions.
Required Skills & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in business majoring in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, or related field; master’s is a plus, not required.
- Minimum 10 years’ supply chain planning experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Advanced expertise in SAP modules relevant to manufacturing (APO, MM, PP, SD).
- Strong analytical skills; data-driven decision-maker.
- Proven leadership in cross-functional teamwork and process optimisation.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities.
- Lean, Six Sigma, or continuous improvement experience is a plus.
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Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.
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What We Do
At Dyson we are focused on solving the problems that others have ignored; solving them first using our technology and ingenuity. In order to achieve this we need to pioneer technologies that are different and authentic. This is the core of what we do and who we are. We must strive to create the future, every single day by developing new things, different things, things that go against the grain with a diverse and global team of ingenious minds.
Dyson employs over 14,000 people and is present in more than 80 countries. And while we are growing fast we want Dyson to remain a start-up in spirit with the freedom of experimentation and learning, constantly reinventing our products as well as reinventing how we work, how we sell and how we support our owners. At the same time we are working through the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson Award and Dyson Institute to inspire future engineers and pioneering a new approach to engineering education.
Underlining everything we do in this diverse environment is the need to always show respect, supporting each other as one team to overcome whatever challenges we encounter. We drive empowerment, development and equality in an inclusive environment for our people around the world.
The future doesn’t just happen, we look to make it happen, to achieve leaps through pioneering new ideas
