Description
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Job Function:
Supply Chain PlanningJob Sub Function:
Demand PlanningJob Category:
People LeaderAll Job Posting Locations:
Shanghai, ChinaJob Description:
Position Summary
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The Senior Manager, APAC NV Supply Chain is a regional supply chain leader responsible for end-to-end supply chain strategy and execution for the Neurovascular portfolio across APAC markets. Based in Shanghai, this role drives supply reliability and cost-to-serve optimization for procedure-driven, high-value NV products. The role partners closely with Commercial, Manufacturing, Quality & Regulatory, Procurement, Planning, and Global Supply Chain teams to ensure launch readiness, allocation during constraints, distributor management, and operational excellence while meeting regulatory and patient-safety requirements.
The role’s scope of responsibilities include:
- Lead APAC supply chain strategy for the NV BU: demand-supply alignment, inventory policy, allocation rules, and service level targets across markets.
- Own regional S&OP / IBP execution for NV: coordinate demand inputs, supply commitments, capacity planning and executive escalation for constrained SKUs.
- Manage inventory and working capital across the region: optimize safety stocks, reduce obsolescence and manage consignment/field-stock models where applicable.
- Drive launch readiness and execution: define supply plans, staging, buffer strategies and allocation for new product introductions and market rollouts.
- Lead supply risk management and contingency planning: single-source mitigation, critical supplier engagement, dual-sourcing strategies and expedited logistics plans.
- Oversee distributor & 3PL relationships across APAC: performance KPIs, contractual SLAs, returns/recall processes and cold-chain or special handling where required.
- Partner with Quality & Regulatory on import/export controls, lot traceability, recall preparedness and compliance impact to supply continuity.
- Implement process improvements and digital initiatives to improve planning cadence, transparency and decision-making.
- Manage regional supply chain team members and matrix resources: hiring, capability development, performance management and cross-market governance.
- Represent APAC NV supply chain in global forums — contribute to network design, capacity allocation and supplier selection decisions.
Major Duties & Responsibilities
In order of importance, briefly describe, in sentence form, the essential functions/major responsibilities of this position (principal duties and responsibilities of the position) as it exists today. Describe the job, not the person in the job. Each item listed below should be an essential function/major responsibility of the position, not a day-to-day activity.
Typically, job descriptions should contain no more than seven or eight major responsibilities ranked in order of highest percentage time to least.
Approximate Percentage of Time
Tasks/Duties/Responsibilities
30%
- Regional S&OP / IBP leadership and supply-demand reconciliation
25%
- Inventory, allocation and launch readiness management
20%
- Supplier & distributor performance and risk mitigation
15%
- Team leadership, capability building and governance
10%
- Systems, process improvement and analytics
100%
- Total
Required Qualifications
Consider and identify qualifications potential applicants must possess in order to be considered for the position. Basic Qualifications must be clearly stated, objective and relevant to this particular position.
Required Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, Finance or related field; MBA or advanced degree strongly preferred.
Required Years of Related Experience: Min 7+ years Other N/A
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (Uncompromised requirements for the role):
(Include any required computer skills, certifications, licenses, languages, etc.)
- Supply chain experience with progressive leadership responsibility; experience in MedTech, medical devices, or other regulated, procedure-driven industries required.
- Demonstrated experience managing multi-country planning across APAC including China; experience with distributor models and 3PLs.
- Proven track record leading S&OP / IBP, launch readiness and allocation during constrained supply situations.
- Strong knowledge of regulatory/import-export considerations, lot traceability, recalls and quality-driven supply processes.
- Experience with planning and ERP systems (SAP, SAP IBP, Kinaxis or equivalent) and analytics/visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau).
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills with ability to present trade-offs to senior commercial and manufacturing stakeholders.
- Fluent in English; business proficiency in Mandarin preferred.
- Eligible to live and work in China.
Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
Business Intelligence (BI), Business Savvy, Commercial Awareness, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Demand Forecasting, Demand Planning, Developing Others, Fact-Based Decision Making, Financial Competence, Financial Forecasting, Inclusive Leadership, Inventory Optimization, Leadership, Manufacturing Flow Management, Predictive Modeling, Statistics, Supply Planning, Team Management