Senior Supply Chain Manager

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Job Function:

Supply Chain Planning

Job Sub Function:

Demand Planning

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Shanghai, China

Job Description:

Position Summary

 

The Senior Supply Chain Manager is responsible for end‑to‑end supply strategy and execution for the WCH under Surgery China. This role drives supply reliability, cost‑to‑serve optimization and launch readiness for procedure‑driven products. The role partners closely with China commercial, Manufacturing, Quality & Regulatory, Procurement, Planning, and Global Supply Chain teams to ensure product availability, allocation during constraints, and operational excellence while meeting regulatory and patient‑safety requirements.

 

The role’s scope of responsibilities include:

• Lead China supply chain strategy for the WCH portfolio: demand‑supply alignment, inventory policy, allocation rules and service level targets.
• Own Market/regional IBP execution for WCH: coordinate demand inputs from WCH sales, confirm supply commitments, support capacity planning and drive executive escalation for constrained SKUs.
• Manage inventory and working capital: optimize safety stock, reduce obsolescence, and manage consignment/field‑stock models where applicable.
• Drive launch readiness and execution for new product introductions and market rollouts: define supply plans, staging and buffer strategies, and allocation principles.
• Lead supply risk management and contingency planning: single‑source mitigation, dual sourcing, supplier engagement and expedited logistics options.
• Work and partner with cross function team to well manage product lifecycle management
• Partner with Quality & Regulatory and Trade Compliance on import/export controls, lot traceability and recall preparedness that impact supply continuity.
• Implement process improvements and digital initiatives to improve planning cadence, transparency and decision‑making

 

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%

• Demand reconciliation for Surgery WCH under VBP context

20%

• Inventory, allocation and launch readiness management for new and existing surgical SKUs.

20%

• Project management such as LCM initiatives

30%

• Cross‑functional collaboration and communication as representative of E2E SC to enable WCH China business growth

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.)

 

·       Experience: Minimum 7+ years of progressive supply chain experience; experience in MedTech/medical devices, life sciences, or other regulated, procedure‑driven industries required.

·       Demonstrated experience managing multi‑province planning and distribution across China, including working with hospital procurement, distributors and consignment models.

·       Functional expertise: Proven track record leading IBP processes, launch readiness and allocation during constrained supply situations.

·       Regulatory & quality: Strong understanding of China import/export considerations, lot traceability, recalls and quality‑driven supply processes.

·       Systems skills: Experience with planning and ERP systems (e.g., SAP ECC/S4 and IBP, Kinaxis, Oracle or equivalent) and analytics/visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau).

·       Stakeholder skills: Strong commercial partnering and influencing skills with ability to present trade‑offs to WCH sales, distributor and manufacturing stakeholders.

·       Languages: Fluent in Mandarin and English (business proficiency).

·       Travel: Up to 10% domestic travel (hospital and distributor sites, cross‑country meetings).

 

 

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