External Manufacturing Consultant

External Manufacturing Consultant

Job Description

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role.

Neither are we.

Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference.

Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU. 

This role is a critical position to enable and advance the NA supply chain strategic use of External Manufacturing for the wipes category.

The individual builds strategic relationships with key suppliers of finished goods and ensures ongoing cost, quality, service, and sustainability goals are met.  The role also leads and manages highly complex strategic programs from an end-to-end supply chain perspective (planning, procurement, 3rd party manufacturing, distribution & logistics, regulatory and quality) through existing and new external manufacturing partners.  The role works closely with the R&E, Procurement & business partners to provide project support and guidance for the new product projects and product improvement programs. 

Customers:
NA business partners, procurement, planning, R&E, Quality, Regulatory and Finance, and externally with our supplier-partners.

In this role, you will:

Masterfully deploy all aspects of the External Contract Manufacturing (ECM) playbook and supply management such as but not limited to:

Interpret the needs of the business units


* Review and understand the business unit’s strategic plans considering supply implications through regular participation in cross functional product projects.


* Be an engaged business partner through regular reviews of regional and global innovation plans within categories of accountability


* Sourcing strategy


* Collaborate with procurement to support tenders and define sourcing strategies in alignment to business’ needs


* Support “make vs buy” assessment, by providing expertise on supplier’s capabilities, capacity

New product plan development along with R&E


* Detailed timeline &milestones

Stakeholder management


* Senior leader influence


* Concise verbal and written reviews

Cross functional team leadership


* Accountability meetings to drive desired outcomes

Risk management


* Identification & mitigation

Asset management


* CFI compliance asset placement & tool write-off management  

Commercialization management in coordination with Planning and Marketing


* Inventory pre-builds, transition inventory


* Write off avoidance

Supplier and product qualification in coordination with Quality/Regulatory


* Social and quality compliance, IQ/OQ/PQ

Supplier Management


* Cost management programs


* Supplier performance management


* Capacity management including equipmen...