How You Will Contribute Factory Operations:

• Supervise and provide guidance to Operations Executive for planning, organizing, directing and running optimum day-to-day operations to execute daily production plan with reduced change over time.
• Removing waste and constraints from the production processes to improve efficiencies/effectiveness and enhance productivity by encouraging and promoting a continuous improvement environment.
• Engineer and reverse engineer internal processes with attention to detail.
• OPEX and CAPEX planning and feasibility.

Demand Planning:

• Develop a demand plan based on business trends and demand patterns.
• Incorporate special scenarios of SKUs that would need specific attention and actively adjust demand forecast logic according to demand shifts.

Procurement:

• Plan, procure and implement comprehensive sourcing of direct materials (raw and packaging) for timely and cost-effective availability to meet the production requirements.
• Help and lead Operations Executive to carryout month-wise costing of raw and packing material for all SKUs to prepare budgets.
• Lead the team for the induction of at least 3 local vendors for raw & packaging material.
• Evaluate price increase demand of various suppliers on the basis of component costing or competitive prices; carryout cost analysis on the basis of cost drivers, negotiate, prepare proposal and obtain approval.
• Keep track of international price trends and technologies for major direct raw materials.
• Optimizing procurement of inventory by improving vendor relationships, performance, and lead times and implementing continuous improvement in procurement techniques.
• Create procurement strategies and procedures for importable materials.

Warehouse Management:

• Develop warehouse operations systems by determining product handling and storage requirements, inventory management, outbound processes, and delivery.
• Supervise the Inventory Management Executive to create purchase requisition before hitting the safety levels.
• Planning, capacity provision and the safe execution of the logistics processes.
• Lead the execution and audit of the physical stock counts.

Fulfillment Management:

• Ensuring that customer orders are accurately fulfilled by the Fulfillment Executive and make sure no order is pending without a justification.
• Set up and roll-out of process compliance for fulfillment operations to drive efficiency.
• Building and managing key strategic relationships with logistics providers (PostEx, Trax, Rider, Call Courier & TCS).
• Identify and resolve gaps in processes, optimizing lead times, cost efficiencies, and potential scale pitfalls.
• Partner with a customer service representative to understand consumer pain points and work on initiatives to improve customer experience.

Customer Service & Logistics:

• Create a daily dispatch plan and ensure its execution.
• Ensure that the Operation Executive taking regular follow-up on distributor's orders management, payments and queries.
• Building and managing key strategic relationships with key account distributors (Minhaj, Sigma & Islamia) and direct accounts to resolve their issues.
• Provide supervision to Operation Executive on 3PL coordination.
• Implementation of improvements in the logistics processes (storage, inbound, outbound).
• Lead scheduled monthly meetings with 3PL to review KPIs and resolve issues that may arise.

This Position Is Well-suited For You If You Have:

• A big-picture thinker and confident in taking strategic decisions.
• Have strong communication, negotiation and influencing skills.
• A self-starter comfortable in fast-paced, highly complex supply chain environments.
• Possesses exceptional attention to detail and the ability to zoom out and place challenges/opportunities into a greater business context.
• Driving product obsession and improvement through team is key to this role. Nutrilov targets an affluent consumer with a health food proposition so it’s critical we build a product-driven culture.
• Nutrilov is in a growth stage so candidate should have the strength to continue and accelerate our growth journey with quick problem-solving solutions around capacity and team enhancement as and when required.

Education:

Bachelors or Masters degree

Experience:

6-8 years of experience of running operations at FMCG.

Our Recruitment Philosophy

You bring the skills and a customer-first mindset, and we'll give you the platform, culture, and purpose needed to do the best stint of life. Together we embark on a mission to develop the better-for-‘YOU’ category in Pakistan. Due to the dearth of better nutritional options in consumer food items in Pakistan, which is both a great challenge and a great opportunity, we need resilient, headstrong, and versatile individuals, willing to work hard every step of the way. Should be open to new challenges and growing with the organization along the way.