Could you be the full-time Supply Chain Senior Team Leader in Cluj-Napoca, Romania we’re looking for?

Your future role

Take on a new challenge and apply your supply chain and leadership expertise in a new cutting-edge field. You’ll report to the Region Supply Chain Manager in Cluj-Napoca and work alongside passionate and fun teammates.

You'll ensure the effective performance for the Global Supply Chain (GSC) function and the achievement of service delivery requirements. Day-to-day, you’ll act as business partner to the Global Functions (Procurement, Supply Chain, Quality, Project Office), Supply Chain Head of Region/Country Leaders, and SSO counterparts, supervising and ensuring effective Supply Chain activities.

You’ll specifically manage individual performance, build teamwork, initiate, and drive continuous improvement within your team, but also take lead for new initiatives and assess staff training needs.

We’ll look to you for:

Talent Champion

• Recruit best-in-class supply chain personnel
• Develop competencies
• Manage individual performance and people development through PMP process
• Provide guidance to the team based on management direction
• Assess staff training needs and encourage compliance with training requirements for each level as part of the employee development program
• Ensure that the team has all the materials, accesses, and resources in place on a day-to-day basis to meet all its service commitments
• Allocate projects and new initiatives to teams

Operational Performance Management

• Accountable for the smooth delivery of global and regional SC processes, in line with agreed Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
• Escalate issues which cannot be resolved by the team to the Operational Manager
• Act as 2nd level of issue escalation
• Lead the effectiveness of the processes through identification of areas for continuous improvement, providing input and information to achieve problem resolution

Management of Business Partner Relationship

• Exercise business partnership by supporting decision making through adding value to the business by proactive delivery of information and knowledge
• Act as Business Partner to Central Business Teams (Procurement, Supply Chain, Quality, Project Office) and align amongst GSS Team Leads
• Participate in regular calls with business partners

Strategic/Change Leadership

• Manage compliance with directives and legal policy
• Ensure consistent application of all relevant SC processes and tools
• Prioritize work in alignment with business goals, strategies, and policies
• Ensure buddy system and succession plans are in place
• Take the lead for new initiatives & projects
• Ensure process & tools development as per business requirements
• Monitor sourcing project quality, cost & time delivery & legal project evolution (FAI, Business Award, Product development)
• Ensure work package sheet commitment respect
• Prepare Business Award

All about you

We value passion and attitude over experience. That’s why we don’t expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we’ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role:

• Engineering Degree, Business Degree or similar complemented by a demonstrated track record
• Proficiency in written and spoken English
• Experience in a relevant position
• Consistent experience in Supply Chain area
• Leadership skills, analytical skills, very good communication and presentation skills, stakeholder management skills, and process-oriented mind-set
• Experience in reporting and data analytics
• ERP Systems (SAP), Office 365 (SharePoint, Excel, Teams, Power APP)