- Managing operational performances for selected suppliers in close relationship with Category Management, Engineering, Services and Quality teams and ensure that all the conditions, internal and external, enabling performances are in place
- Initiating improvement plans for the selected suppliers due to supplier non-performance and / or supplier development and ramp up needs
- Managing, controlling and reporting on suppliers performance against Key Performance Indicators to interested stakeholders. Their main mission is to achieve the SKPIs (Suppliers Key Processes Indicators) objectives, SOTD (Supplier On Time Delivery) ROTD (Supplier On Time Delivery to Requirements) and DPPM (Delivered Parts Per Million) defined by the organization
- Conducting change management at supplier to ensure long term improvement of supplier maturity
- Influencing the supplier on its innovation & strategy orientations vis a vis John Crane
- Coaching the supplier organisation on implementation of best-in-class supply chain & quality processes (ad hoc training, project management...)
- Operationally driving action and improvement plan implementation at suppliers,



in the name of all John Crane entities
- Creating conditions of success to improve the operational development with their selected suppliers
- Supplier OTD
- OTD to Requirements
- Improving Supplier performance classification maximising number of A class suppliers
- Accountable for a pool of suppliers (defined on a periodic basis) for which John Crane requires an improvement in their performance
- Accountable for measuring, monitoring and improving the performance of assigned suppliers to meet the needs of John Crane

Qualifications

- 5 - 10 years of relative experience
- Ability to solve problems using methodologies such as: 8D, PDCA (Plan Do Check Act), Ishikawa, 5 Whys etc.
- Have a working knowledge of Lean Manufacturing principles
- Have fundamental project management skills
- Able to input to and take data from an S&OP; process (Sales and Operations Planning), Production Plans, Manufacturing Resource Planning, workload evaluations etc.
- Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate

📌 Supplier Performance Manager (Pune)
🏢 Smiths Detection
📍 Pune