RRT Lead - Essential Health and Skin Health & Beauty

Agility and rapid response are essential elements to navigate the dynamic and unpredictable nature of the supply chain. 

The Rapid Response Team (RRT) Lead will be responsible to implement responsive strategies, such as flexible sourcing, and quick decision-making, enabling them to swiftly address challenges and capitalize on opportunities in the ever-evolving landscape of material supply. He/she will require close collaboration with cross-functional teams, which may include representation from Material Supply Management, Supply Chain Planning, Sourcing, Logistics, Internal and External manufacturing sites, Research & Development, Marketing, Sales, Engineering, Quality, Regulatory and Finance.  

His/her key responsibilities will include: 

• Leads projects focused on accelerated compliant remediation of issues that have a high probability of causing significant impact to customer service. 

• Leads high impact, high priority remediation activities across the Asia Pacific organization. At times, these teams and projects may be global in scope. 

• Manage and influence multi-functional teams in remediating significant issues or risks to product supply. 

• Apply business & technical skills and good judgment to assess risk quickly & optimally, decisively prioritize and triage issues based on severity and imminence, and eliminate or minimize impact 

• Perform root cause analysis on each supply disruption event, identify lessons learned and propose systemic solutions to avoid recurrence of the issues. 

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or supply chain.  

• 2-5 years’ experience in one or more relevant functions including Planning, Source, Engineering, R&D, Quality Assurance or Supply Chain Operations. 

• Experience managing projects is a must. 

• An independent self-starter with strong oral and written communication skills.  

• Ability to quickly size up information, use logic to evaluate and draw sound conclusions and decisions. Must have a right level of assertiveness and able to know where to go for information.  

• Expert at challenging the status quo. 

• Demonstrated ability to evaluate risk and translate complex situations into simple working solutions. 

• Proven ability to partner and communicate across functional levels, and to influence without authority within a matrix reporting structure 

• Proficient user of MS Office applications