National Supply Chain Manager

**Job Description**:
Our Pact Packaging division is pioneering a whole of product life cycle approach to sustainable packaging. Partnering with global brands to local dairy producers, we integrate supply chain efficiencies and sustainable practices into everything we design and manufacture.

**About this opportunity**

Our Large Format Industrial Packaging business specialises in the manufacture and supply of rigid plastic and metal packaging servicing for the consumer and industrial sectors.

As National Supply Chain Manager, for our Large Format Industrial Packaging, a part of our steel division, you will be responsible for formulating and implementing a Supply Chain strategy that optimises manufacturing capacity, inventory, labour and distribution costs that delivers a sustained ‘best-cost’ for our customers while supporting growth. Specifically, you will

**Your key responsibilities include**:

- Review customer demand and manufacturing footprint and formulate a network design (warehouse, transport lanes) that balances product availability and inventory levels
- Work with the sales teams to clarify and document service levels
- Work with the Planners & Operations Managers to interpret and understand customer forecast requirements and develop fulfilment models and inventory holdings for the factories to work to, monitor conformance and adjust accordingly within cashflow KPI’s
- Further develop and implement a centralised supply planning, raw material sourcing and distribution model including processes, role design and system selection & implementation
- Evaluate long-term demand based on the growth strategy against forecast demand, supply LTTD and make recommendations on additional/surplus capacity and/or outsourcing
- Drive reductions in excess or obsolete inventory in structured disciplined process
- Drive optimum transport contract structures for the LFIP business through the Group Procurement function and LFIP Reuse shared customers and transport lanes
- The role is also responsible for mentoring Supply Chain talent (Planning, Warehouse) in the operational teams

If you are passionate about driving results, then this is a great opportunity for transformational change and furthering your career pathway with an industry leader.

**To be successful in this role, you will have**:

- Visible belief and demonstrated leadership in driving a Zero Harm culture
- Purchasing experience
- Materials requirement planning experience
- SAP Knowledge
- Advanced excel
- Working background in manufacturing or heavy industrial environment
- “Hands On” approach with willingness to deliver outcomes
- Proven people leadership across all levels, with a collaborative and enabling approach.
- Outcome focus with the ability to balance production, safety, and resources

Additional Information
**About us**

Our vision is to lead the circular economy through packaging, reuse and recycling solutions. It’s a future-driven group commitment, designed to create lasting value.

We’re the largest plastics recycler in Australia and New Zealand and one of the region’s biggest user of recycled materials. We have 6,000+ team members, operate 110 manufacturing facilities across 15 countries, and our customers include some of the world’s largest brands that consumers know and trust.

As a global leader in circular and sustainable packaging solutions, we’ve committed to lead the circular economy through a $500 million investment plan.

For us, it’s about finding new and better ways of doing things. Ways to grow business, to give back to the environment and to enrich people’s lives every day.

Our promise is to create a better and more prosperous world all round.

That’s our future Pact. Let’s lead the way together.