This role has overall responsibility for managing the supply chain across the Asia Pacific region.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Own and drive a disciplined, region-wide Sales & Operations Planning process, ensuring alignment across demand, supply, inventory, and capacity planning.

Identify, prioritize, and lead continuous improvement initiatives across forecasting accuracy, production scheduling, inventory optimization, and supplier supply planning.

Lead the exceptions management process, proactively identifying risks, gaps, and constraints, and enabling timely, fact-based trade-off decisions with key stakeholders.

Structure, facilitate, and lead regional S&OP governance and review meetings, ensuring strong process discipline, accountability, and compliance.

Establish, monitor and track key operational performance indicators (KPIs) including inventory health, service levels, forecast accuracy, and supply reliability.

Drive actions to identify, reduce, and eliminate excess and obsolete (E&O) inventory, improving working capital efficiency.

Champion and model Gates’ core values, continuous improvement mindset, and operational excellence culture across the region.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS:
Partner with the commercial organization to develop robust processes, systems, and tools that enable accurate product family and SKU-level demand forecasting.

Collaborate with plant/site operations teams to translate demand forecasts into executable production plans, capacity plans, and inventory targets.

Work closely with the sourcing and procurement teams to ensure supply planning, supplier capacity, and inventory strategies remain aligned with customer demand.

Partner with global and regional S&OP leaders to align strategy, governance standards, best practices, and exceptions management.

Collaborate with IT and digital teams to define, develop, and implement the regional S&OP systems roadmap, analytics, and tool strategy.

MEASURES OF PERFORMANCE:
Regional KPIs (Delivery, Inventory and Logistics cost, Lean maturity)

Delivery of improved S&OP projects and processed with priority

Best Practice/Idea Replication

Benchmark Comparisons (Internal & External) for World Class Performance

Achievement of regional operational KPIs, including delivery performance, inventory turns, logistics cost, service levels, and Lean maturity progression.

Successful delivery of priority S&OP transformation and continuous improvement initiatives, with measurable business impact.

Replication and scaling of best practices, innovations, and process improvements across sites and regions.

Performance against internal and external world-class benchmarks, ensuring continuous competitiveness and operational excellence.

Improvement in forecast accuracy, inventory optimization, and supply responsiveness.

QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, or related discipline, with a minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in operations, engineering, or supply chain leadership, including direct ownership of S&OP.

Master’s degree preferred.

Experience in automotive or complex manufacturing systems is highly desirable.

Strong hands-on experience in Lean Manufacturing, continuous improvement, and operational excellence methodologies.

REQUIRED SKILLS:
Demonstrated project and program management expertise, including cross-functional coordination, communication, execution, governance, and post-implementation review.

Deep knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, statistical analysis, and structured problem-solving methodologies.

Strong analytical and systems-thinking capabilities, with the ability to translate data into actionable business decisions.

Highly results-oriented, with a track record of driving measurable business improvements and scalable process solutions.

Proven ability to influence, coach, and align stakeholders across multiple organizational levels, functions, and geographies.

Excellent executive-level communication, presentation, and facilitation skills, both verbal and written.

Strong change leadership skills with the ability to drive adoption of new processes, systems, and behaviors.

WORKING LOCATION:
Jurong East, Industrial Business Park

WHO ARE WE?

Gates Corporation is the world’s leading manufacturer of power transmission belts and a premier global manufacturer of fluid power products. Our highly engineered products are critical components used in diverse industrial and automotive applications where the cost of failure is very high relative to the cost of our products.

We sell our products globally under the Gates brand, which is recognized by distributors, original equipment manufacturers, and installers as the premium brand for quality and technological innovation, a reputation which we have built for over a century since our founding in 1911.

Our products and services serve customers in the following end market segments:

Energy, Exploration & Extraction (Oil & Gas)

Infrastructure & Agriculture (Mobile Equipment)

Transportation (Fleet & Heavy-Duty)

Automotive (Passenger Cars & Light Trucks)

Process & Specialty (Manufacturing)

As an engineering leader with a strong foundation in research and development, Gates is committed to advancing the science of motion performance by developing safe, forward-thinking products, services, systems, and solutions, as well as fostering long-term customer and employee relationships. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Gates employs over 14,000 people across 106 locations in 30 countries.

Help us dream, create, innovate, build, and broaden possibilities. Never has our work been so critical to progress, change, and a thriving economy. You can be a part of the story. And we can help you find what moves you.

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