[리테일/SCM] Supply Chain Lead

An international beverage company is looking for a Supply Chain Lead. The selected applicant will be responsible for driving end-to-end supply chain performance across demand planning, customer service, logistics and operational excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Act as the single, responsive point of contact for Supply Chain for the Korean Leadership Team and commercial organisation
• Partner with the Korea Managing Director to anticipate business constraints, understand customer and channel needs, and translate market priorities into Supply Chain actions
• Influence cross-functional decisions beyond Supply Chain by bringing fact-based trade-off recommendations on service, cost, inventory, availability and demand quality
• Communicate Supply Chain priorities, risks, opportunities and project impacts clearly to market stakeholders, ensuring strong alignment and follow-through
• Lead the local S&OP / Demand Planning process, enabling consensus meetings, challenging assumptions and tracking risks and opportunities
• Improve the maturity of the existing S&OP process in Korea and ensure standardisation with the company's One Plan model
• Own forecast quality at market level, including bias, forecast value-add, data integrity and appropriate aggregation for regional and local decision-making
• Drive one-plan discipline and readiness for IBP / digital planning capabilities, ensuring local teams adopt standard planning cycles and ways of working
• Be responsible for domestic customer service and logistics operations in Korea, including order-to-delivery performance, service recovery, delivery reliability and distribution performance
• Own cost-to-serve visibility and improvement plans, identifying logistics levers and productivity opportunities while protecting service and growth
• Challenge the Commercial Team on ways of working with customers to reduce complexity, optimise operations and generate productivity
• Manage and develop strategic relationships with third-party logistics providers, transportation partners, warehouses and key external service providers
• Partner with the commercial organisation on key customer/wholesaler relationships, collaborative planning, service alignment and issue resolution
• Connect demand, supply, inventory, materials, customer service and logistics into a coherent end-to-end market view
• Identify business and operational opportunities, define action plans and drive execution to enhance service delivery, availability and working capital outcomes
• Build robust performance management routines based on clear KPIs for service, forecast accuracy, cost, inventory and operational productivity
• Lead local Supply Chain transformation initiatives and continuous improvement projects, including logistics network optimisation, customer service transformation and route-to-market related change
• Coordinate local functional Supply Chain efforts and foster collaboration across Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Customer Service, Logistics, Finance and Commercial teams
• Engage regional and global Supply Chain counterparts proactively to address local business needs, escalating trade-offs and priorities with clear recommendations
• Develop team capability and succession pipelines across demand planning, customer service and logistics roles where direct or functional leadership is in scope

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or above in engineering, logistics, supply chain management, business, or a related discipline
• More than 10 years of Supply Chain experience (Korea exposure in S&OP, Demand Planning, Customer Service, Logistics or Commercial Planning is ideal)
• Proven experience in FMCG or F&B industry
• Experience operating in a matrix organisation and influencing senior commercial stakeholders without relying only on formal authority
• People management or functional leadership experience, including capability building and performance management, is strongly recommended
• Experience leading continuous improvement projects in logistics, customer service, planning, network optimisation or route-to-market change
• Fluent level Korean and English

Preferred Requirements:

• Strong digital and data literacy; SAP S/4HANA, SAP Cloud, SAP IBP or advanced planning system exposure
• Other Asian language and cross-cultural APAC experience

About the Company:

A leading global beverage company headquartered, specialising in the production and distribution of premium spirits, wines, and aperitifs. With a portfolio of iconic brands, the company operates in multiple international markets, focusing on innovation, quality, and brand excellence.

Keywords:

공급망, 물류, FMCG, 글로벌

Job Ref: UG4I3H