EM Supply Chain Manager - Africa Middle East

Opella is the self-care challenger with the purest and third-largest portfolio in the Over-The-Counter (OTC) & Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) market globally .

Our mission: to bring health in people’s hands by making self-care as simple as it should be for over half a billion consumers worldwide.

At the core of this mission is our 100+ loved brands , our 11,000-strong global team, our 13 best-in-class manufacturing sites and four specialized science and innovation development centers.

Headquartered in France, Opella is the proud maker of many of the world’s most loved brands, including Allegra, Buscopan, Doliprane, Dulcolax, Enterogermina, Essentiale and Mucosolvan.

B Corp certified in multiple markets , we are active players in the journey towards healthier people and planet.

Find out more about our mission to bring health in your hands at www.opella.com.

About The Job

As an EM Supply Chain Manager , you will be responsible for managing end-to-end supply chain operations across external manufacturing partners and internal stakeholders. You will ensure product availability through effective forecasting, inventory management, and supply planning while optimizing costs and service levels across multiple markets.

Acting as the key supply chain contact for subcontractors, you will coordinate production planning, logistics, and performance management, while proactively managing risks such as stock shortages and market constraints. You will also contribute to cross-functional projects including market launches, production transfers, and continuous improvement initiatives, working closely with Procurement, Quality, Finance, Regulatory, and Marketing teams.

Main Responsibilities

Daily supply chain operation with external partners

• Creation of monthly rolling forecast for the next 18 months
• Determination of purchase order on basis of the sales forecast and of the market stock level
• Assist procurement service in the diverse price or contract related negotiation and exchange with external partner
• Supervise the sub-contractor’ performance in the domain of lead-time, reactivity, reliability, and flexibility
• Participation in the plant’s production plan and capacity optimization
• Participate in the inland and oversea transport optimization to reduce the cost
• Put in place different management for each type of sub-contractor (final product, semi product, Full manufacturing, Toll manufacturing, primary material)
• To ensure the close relationship with the sub-contractor in other domain of raw material management, lead-time, expedition, reception
• Focus point of the sub-contractor for all the issues
• Key Supply chain contact for the sub-contractor of concerned scope
• Goods receipt, article creation and modification, system flow management, and other transactions in SAP
• To build strong collaboration network with other supply chain service for both sharing of knowledge, information and synchronizing processes
• Key contact for coordination of actions for inventory management

Daily supply chain operation with internal partners

• Market stock control to assure a correct stock level
• Out of stock and risk alert management with the concerned services (quality, export service, legal, packaging, marketing …)
• Stock allocation decision in case of shortage for the multi-market references
• Logistic and supply chain project management
• Supply management of the APIs, excipients, and packaging items
• Participation to interdisciplinary projects financial, regulatory, legal
• Following up of the payment issue, or divers financial issue with accountancy department and controlling department
• Coordination of the market launch, of production transfer, of market stop
• Negotiation with plant and market, and proposition of logistic solution which meets the best to each part.

Periodic review and report of the activities

• Weekly meeting with the manager for the current activity
• Periodic report on the diverse project on going
• Periodic global TC or meeting with sub-contractors, or other service and department

Project Management

Participate and support in all ad hoc projects assigned by the manager

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