Supply Chain Team Lead with English
Join our client as a Supply Chain Senior Team Leader in Cluj-Napoca! Lead, innovate, and enhance global supply chain processes while driving team growth and development.
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)
- Department
- Supply Chain
- Locations
- Cluj-Napoca
- Remote status
- Hybrid
About Sales Consulting
As a leading provider of Human Resources consulting services in Transylvania, we deliver regional coverage and specialized expertise across four core areas: recruitment and selection, personnel leasing, assessment centers and HR consultancy. With a strong and consistent presence on the Romanian market, we continue to consolidate our position through a strategic commitment to continuous improvement and alignment with evolving business needs.
Our success is founded on the professionalism of our services, the multidisciplinary capabilities of our consulting team, and the long-standing partnerships we maintain with clients who rely on our support in navigating complex HR challenges.
We collaborate with organizations across a broad range of industries, including IT&C, automotive, outsourcing, pharmaceutical, banking, FMCG and others, building sustainable, long-term relationships that contribute to their organizational growth.
Guided by the principles of client orientation, teamwork, flexibility, excellence, dedication, and responsibility, we remain focused on delivering measurable value and consistently high-quality services to our partners.