Supply Planning Leader

Senior Manager – Technology Transformation

Senior Bid Manager

Finance Analyst

Inside Sales Engineer

Supplier Development Process Engineer

Head of Card Operations

Finance Analyst III (Plant Operations)

Supervisor Supply Chain

Product Manager

Role Description: <ul><li>Supply Planning Leader is accountable for end-to-end supply planning across an assigned product portfolio and multiple distribution centers.</li><li>The role ensures timely, cost-effective product availability while balancing customer service, inventory health, working capital, capacity, and logistics performance. This leader converts demand into feasible supply plans, manages risks and constraints, and drives cross-functional execution and continuous improvement in a global, matrix environment.</li></ul> Responsibilities: <ul><li>Develop and execute supply plans aligned with customer demand, inventory targets, business priorities, capacity, material availability, supplier constraints, and transportation lead times.</li><li>Ensure finished-goods availability and timely replenishment across distribution centers, regional warehouses, and source plants by driving MRP recommendations and monitoring plan adherence.</li><li>Lead weekly and monthly supply reviews and actively support S&amp;OP and S&amp;OE by providing supply status, reviewing demand outlook, recommending trade-offs, and driving approved actions.</li><li>Optimize safety stock, MRP policies, inventory deployment, stock coverage, turns, availability, and working capital while maintaining healthy inventory levels.</li><li>Manage phase-in and phase-out planning for the assigned portfolio.</li><li>Identify demand-supply gaps, capacity bottlenecks, material constraints, revenue risks, and service opportunities; lead root-cause analysis, recovery plans, prioritization, and allocation decisions.</li><li>Support customer-service targets, including Fill Rate, STR, OTIF, and PP Confirmation, by aligning commitments with realistic supply capabilities.</li><li>Partner with Demand Planning, Procurement, Manufacturing, Logistics, Customer Service, Product Management, and Sales on material availability, inventory strategy, supply risks, and executive reviews.</li><li>Prepare monthly and annual inventory and freight projections and improve sourcing and transportation economics, including ocean buying from source.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Operations, Business, or a related field.</li><li>10+ years of experience in supply planning, materials planning, inventory management, manufacturing, distribution, OEM, automotive, industrial, or aftermarket environments.</li><li>At least 4 years of team-leadership experience, with demonstrated stakeholder management, influencing, communication, and problem-solving capability.</li><li>Experience working effectively in fast-paced, global, matrix, and ambiguous environments.</li><li>Strong knowledge of supply and demand planning, forecasting, inventory optimization, capacity and constraint management, distribution networks, transportation, warehousing, and S&amp;OP/S&amp;OE.</li><li>Proficiency in SAP MRP and inventory planning, SAP IBP, and advanced Microsoft Excel; strong Microsoft PowerPoint and analytics capability.</li></ul>

Role Description: <ul><li>The role holder identifies and defines opportunities, builds the business case for each initiative, and leads delivery through internal technology functions and delivery partners. Initiatives are held to their intended outcomes, adoption and benefits, not go-live alone. This is a hands-on role. </li><li>The role holder personally designs, builds and deploys data, analytics, automation and AI solutions, and coordinates multidisciplinary teams.</li></ul> Responsibilities: <ul><li>Provide analysis and recommendations to help develop DHI’s technology, data and digital transformation agenda, for review by the Executive Director – Portfolio Operations and Intelligence.</li><li>Develop and maintain roadmaps for assigned initiatives, sequencing activity by value, dependency, risk and readiness.</li><li>Lead discovery and solution design with DHI departments, running workshops that define the opportunity, scope and intended outcome of each initiative.</li><li>Identify opportunities to improve revenue, productivity, customer experience, operational performance and decision-making through data, analytics, automation and AI.</li><li>Define value hypotheses, success metrics, adoption targets and value realisation frameworks for each initiative.</li><li>Design, develop, deploy and maintain data and analytical solutions, dashboards, automation solutions and AI-enabled products.</li><li>Build and maintain ETL/ELT processes and data transformation workflows.</li><li>Own the lifecycle of data, analytics, automation and AI products, from concept through deployment and adoption.</li><li>Define product vision, user requirements, roadmaps, backlogs and delivery priorities, based on the end-to-end needs of alternative asset management users, including investment professionals, portfolio managers, senior leadership and governance functions. Translate business challenges into technical requirements, user stories and solution designs.</li><li>Lead end-to-end delivery of assigned transformation initiatives, managing scope, schedule, cost and quality.</li><li>Ensure initiatives meet cybersecurity, data protection, privacy and AI governance requirements.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>6 – 8 years of experience in technology transformation, data product development, applied AI, technology consulting or data-enabled transformation.</li><li>Demonstrated experience personally taking a problem through to a production-grade product.</li><li>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, AI, Mathematics, Statistics, Business or another relevant quantitative discipline.</li><li>Advanced degree, such as an MBA, preferred.</li><li>Technology, data and digital transformation planning and roadmap development</li><li>Data platforms such as Databricks, Azure AI Foundry, Spark, Hive or Palantir Foundry</li></ul>

Role Description: <ul><li>The Senior Bid Manager will establish and develop a new deal and bid management capability, acting as the central coordinator for complex Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and tenders across EMEA and North America, with support for APAC as required.</li><li>Based in the UK, the role will work closely with Sales, Pricing, Legal, Service Delivery, and other teams across the business to coordinate the end-to-end bid process and ensure the development of high-quality, commercially sound, and deliverable proposals.</li><li>This is an exciting opportunity to shape a new capability and play a key role in how the business approaches and delivers complex deals globally. The Senior Bid</li><li>Manager will bring structure and organisation to a developing function, establishing effective processes, tools, and ways of working while remaining adaptable as the business evolves.</li><li>This is a highly hands-on role requiring a proactive self-starter who can work autonomously while thinking strategically. An AI-first mindset is essential to identify smarter, more efficient ways of working and continuously improve the deal and bid management process.</li></ul> Responsibilities: RFP Orchestration and Qualification <ul><li>Own the RFP intake register and qualification process, assessing scope, probability of winning, and resource capacity.</li><li>Propose resource allocation to senior commercial leadership.</li><li>Develop and manage end-to-end bid plans, including meeting schedules, stage gates, task delegation, and deadline management across all workstreams.</li><li>Organise mandatory RFP strategy kick-off meetings and prepare decision-making packs for each stage gate.</li></ul> Contract and SLA Alignment <ul><li>Build and maintain a global standard contract clause library and deviation register.</li><li>Establish the standard contractual baseline for each RFP and consolidate regional amendments into a single position for negotiation.</li><li>Coordinate Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with Service Delivery teams, ensuring internal approval of operational feasibility before commitments are made to customers.</li><li>Manage contractual terms and SLAs as part of an integrated negotiation process.</li><li>Coordinate with Legal teams on standard contractual terms.</li><li>Refer significant contractual or SLA deviations to Pricing for financial impact assessment.</li><li>Track contract approvals and signatures through to completion.</li></ul> Proposal Excellence <ul><li>Develop compelling solution narratives and executive summaries tailored to the evaluation criteria and target audience.</li><li>Lead internal bid reviews and quality assurance processes.</li><li>Build and maintain a library of standard proposal content, templates, and reusable materials.</li><li>Evaluate and implement AI-powered bid management tools, such as Loopio or similar platforms, to improve proposal quality, consistency, and turnaround times.</li><li>Manage customer portal submissions, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and on-time delivery across relevant time zones.</li></ul> Continuous Improvement <ul><li>Facilitate structured win/loss reviews following each RFP to identify lessons and improvement opportunities.</li><li>Maintain and continuously improve bid processes, standard templates, reusable proposal content, and contractual clause libraries between live bids.</li><li>Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, consistency, and commercial effectiveness through automation and AI-enabled tools.</li></ul> Requirements: Relevant Skills and Experience <ul><li>12+ years of relevant pre-sales, bid management, or related commercial experience, with an AI-first mindset.</li><li>Essential experience in aviation, ground handling, or air cargo handling; knowledge of the Standard Ground Handling Agreement (SGHA) is a strong advantage.</li><li>Proven experience managing complex, multi-workstream bids and tenders against strict external deadlines.</li><li>Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to coordinate teams across regions, functions, and seniority levels without direct authority.</li><li>Strong contract management knowledge and sound commercial judgement.</li><li>Ability to work effectively in ambiguous, evolving environments and establish structure in a developing function.</li><li>Practical experience with bid management and AI tools, such as Loopio or equivalent platforms.</li><li>A proactive, hands-on approach with the ability to take ownership and deliver independently.</li><li>Excellent written communication, proposal development, presentation, and executive-level communication skills.</li></ul> Core Values <ul><li>Safety: Maintaining the highest standards of safety and operational responsibility.</li><li>Customer Focus: Delivering value and creating positive customer experiences.</li><li>Respect: Listening to, understanding, and respecting colleagues and stakeholders.</li><li>Excellence: Pursuing high standards in every aspect of delivery.</li><li>Teamwork: Collaborating effectively and building on the strengths of others.</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Responsible for all aspects of Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets</li><li>Review transactions and documentation to ensure compliance with statutory and Group requirements.</li><li>Assist in cost monitoring and controls. Provide analytical support with insights on actual expenses and variances against budget</li><li>Work in a team to perform day-to-day accounting functions, month-end, quarter-end and year-end closing. These may include reconciliations, general ledger entries, Group and Statutory reporting.</li><li>Ensure timely and accurate completion of management accounts, notes to the accounts, cash flow projection and statutory and tax submission.</li><li>Provide support for the planning and budgeting exercise</li><li>Assist in system and process enhancements.</li><li>Liaise with external internal auditors, tax agent, company secretary, regulatory authorities, relationship manager and other parties to ensure compliance with all matters relating to audit, tax, statutory and Group requirements.</li><li>Perform any ad-hoc tasks and responsibilities which the superior may assign from time to time</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Minimum 5 years of working experience in Finance, Accounting or Audit functions</li><li>Have a Bachelor Degree in Accounting or Finance or a professional accounting qualification (e.g ACCA/ CPA Australia/ CIMA)</li><li>Have working experience in a shared service centre / Global Business Service centre experience will be an advantage</li><li>Working knowledge and experience in SAP system is a must</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Identify and pursue new sales opportunities across PH market.&nbsp;</li><li>Build and maintain strong relationships with existing and potential customers, adapting communication styles to regional preferences.</li><li>Support external sales engineers by generating leads and qualifying prospects.</li><li>Generate quotation and revert to customers for standard products, tubing, hoses and parts.</li><li>Follow up with customer quotations.</li><li>Take orders for repeat business and ensure timely follow-up with clients.</li><li>Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align sales strategies with regional market trends.</li><li>Maintain accurate records of customer interactions and sales activities in CRM systems.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Good English communication skills.&nbsp;</li><li>2 to 5 years of experience in inside sales (cold calling / lead generation).</li><li>Background in maintaining accurate records of customer interactions and sales activities.</li><li>Cold calling, lead generation.</li></ul>

Responsibilities: Cross function collaboration: <ul><li>Coordinate Procurement, SQE, PDE, MPDE, Engineering Assess and document manufacturing capability, process maturity, and QMS compliance during PCBA new supplier qualification/Development.</li><li>Engage upstream and downstream raw material partners to improve delivery capability, capacity alignment, and supplier responsiveness.</li><li>Organize and lead regular cross-functional reviews with PDE, MPDE, and suppliers to address delivery risks, manufacturing readiness, and improvement actions.</li><li>Track and drive closure of cross-functional and supplier action items, escalating gaps as needed.</li></ul> NPI stage: <ul><li>Provide early manufacturing and engineer support for PCBA commodities from a sourcing and supply chain perspective to support supplier selection decisions (critical).</li><li>Conflict Management: Coordinate and facilitate DFM (Design for Manufacturing) discussions with suppliers, and Engineering to ensure manufacturing requirements are clearly understood and accepted (no design decision ownership).</li><li>Assess and document manufacturing capability, process maturity, and QMS compliance during PCBA new supplier qualification.</li><li>Act as a coordination interface between Procurement and Engineering, ensuring alignment on quality, commercial, and technical expectations without assuming design ownership.</li></ul> Approved Supplier Management: <ul><li>Drive yield, process stability, and delivery performance improvements at supplier sites.</li><li>Collaborate with suppliers and key supply chain nodes to improve lead time and delivery reliability, supporting company sample and production needs.</li><li>Partner with CM and Procurement to support SRM programs for strategic PCBA suppliers, with close tracking of action plan execution.</li><li>Facilitate cross-functional supplier improvement workshops (e.g. CoPQ reduction, lead time optimization) as a neutral coordinator, ensuring clear ownership and accountability.</li><li>Monitor progress and escalate unresolved issues where action items are not closed as committed.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in Electrical / Automation/ Mechanical or any Engineering related majors.</li><li>At least 7 years of MPDE experience within PCBA (Industry relevant), connector and cable assembly Quality Management portion. Procurement, supply chain experience OR Total years of experience 10+ years in various industries including PCBA.</li><li>Knowledge on specific product and process as required (Connectors, Cable and Cable Assemblies, PCBA Tolerances and Cost Drivers)&nbsp;</li><li>In-depth knowledge of electronic manufacturing processes such as PCBA assembly (SMT/THT), box build, testing, and packaging</li><li>Understanding of supplier capabilities, capacity planning, and EMS operating models</li><li>Familiarity with DFM/DFA (Design for Assembly), component sourcing, and BOM management</li><li>Awareness of quality systems, certifications (ISO 9001,IATF 16949 and IPC- Association Connecting Electronics Industries), and related compliance standards</li><li>Ability to work with EMS partners on cost, yield, lead time, and continuous improvement</li><li>Experience supporting NPI, supplier qualification, and scale-up to mass production</li><li>Expert level with the tools related to supplier APQP process, include but not limited to PPAP, FMEA, CP, MSA, SPC, R@R and 8D methodology is a Plus.</li><li>Thorough knowledge of Problem-Solving tools (5-Why, Ishikawa/Fishbone diagrams, Fault Tree</li><li>Analysis)</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Lead the COPC team</li><li>Lead and responsible for day-to-daye operations to ensure SLAs and all deliverables are met</li><li>Streamline processes to reduce operating cost and turnaround time without compromising quality and risk.&nbsp;</li><li>Conduct internal reviews / tests to ensure compliance</li><li>Assist with data analysis, report findings, recommend corrective actions and preventive actions for review.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Proactively manage and resolve customers’ and business units’ feedback and queries promptly</li><li>Drive operations related projects &amp; process improvements</li><li>Lead and coach staff to a high standard of performance, productivity and service quality</li><li>Ensure that the Bank’s policies, guidelines, operations control and compliance requirements are strictly adhered to;</li><li>Ensure that operation procedures are kept up to-date;</li><li>Identify opportunities to improve productivity, efficiency and service quality in the team and within the division while assuming the role as a mentor to coach staff to ensure high standard of performance, productivity and service quality</li><li>Candidate must come from banking industry and done / doing cards operations. This is to manage total HC of 70 (incl TL &amp; Dep TL).</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelor’s degree</li><li>At least 10 years of retail banking operations, especially in Credit/Debit Cards Operations&nbsp;</li><li>At least 10 years of team management experience with a minimum size of 20</li><li>Able to multi-task and cope with change and diversity in a fast-paced environment</li><li>Experience in change management projects, including successful RPA and automation implementations.</li><li>Strong organizational and management skills with strong leadership qualities</li><li>Strong analytical and problem-solving skills</li><li>Strong interpersonal and communication skills with excellent verbal/written communication and interpersonal skills</li><li>Ability to think objectively and think outside the box when analyzing issues</li><li>Ability to work under pressure</li></ul>

Responsibilities: Planning and Budgeting&nbsp;: <ul><li>Assist on annual budget preparation.&nbsp;</li><li>Assist on monthly forecast preparation.&nbsp;</li><li>Track weekly forecast variance. In order to provide accurate and timely reports.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li></ul> Inventory Risk tracking/Analysis&nbsp;: <ul><li>Inventory reserve preparation&nbsp;</li><li>High light inventory risks and opportunities monthly&nbsp;</li><li>Monitor inventory physical count.&nbsp;</li><li>In order to comply with corporate policies and risk control&nbsp;&nbsp;</li></ul> Costing&nbsp;accounting&nbsp;: <ul><li>Data prepare(Mater master/Routine/Std cost);&nbsp;</li><li>Month ending JE booking&nbsp;</li><li>PPV program and analysis&nbsp;</li><li>Mat. usage analyzing&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Production scrap report preparing&nbsp;&nbsp;</li></ul> FA accounting&nbsp;: <ul><li>Familiar with Capital Assets policy and comply with the policy(Include local policy)；&nbsp;</li><li>Prepare FA management report(Acquisitions, disposal, transfer etc.) and leading fixed&nbsp;</li><li>assets physical count&nbsp;</li><li>Issuing Asset Tags to assets responsible department&nbsp;</li><li>Intercompany Transfers of Fixed Assets data preparing and follow to financial posting&nbsp;</li><li>Follow Open PO&amp;IO&amp;CIP tracking report by month&nbsp;</li><li>CER review and budget control with report and management.&nbsp;</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>At least bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting/taxation or related.&nbsp;</li><li>Over 7-10 years working experience in Finance, costing managerial position is preferred&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Good knowledge and experience in costing of manufacturing.&nbsp;Understand how to manage&nbsp;</li><li>and improve Mfg. variance.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Good knowledge and experience in SAP.&nbsp;</li><li>Fluent English Mandarin, both written and oral (Added Advantage)</li><li>Strong will to learn and develop the skills.&nbsp;</li></ul>

Role Description: <ul><li>Lead and supervise end-to-end supply chain planning for New Product Introduction (NPI) and New Product Development (NPD) projects at the Shirwal plant.</li><li>The role converts project requirements into executable material, production, capacity, inventory, packaging and logistics plans from early project gates through prototype, validation, pilot build, PPAP/PSW, SOP and ramp-up.</li><li>The position ensures launch readiness, timely risk escalation, disciplined SAP planning and structured handover to the regular MRP planning team after SOP.</li></ul> Responsibilities: <ul><li>Team Leadership &amp; Governance: Lead the NPI planning team, assign project ownership, review priorities and represent supply chain in plant and project launch reviews.</li><li>NPI Planning &amp; Launch Readiness: Own supply chain deliverables from early project gates through prototype, validation, pilot, PPAP, SOP and ramp-up, ensuring material and capacity readiness.</li><li>SAP, Master Data &amp; Material Planning: Ensure timely setup of parts, BOMs, routings, sourcing and MRP parameters. Convert project demand into executable material plans and manage shortages and MRP exceptions.</li><li>Supplier &amp; Cross-Functional Coordination: Coordinate with Procurement, Suppliers, Engineering, Quality, Operations, Logistics and Project Management to secure materials, tooling, packaging, capacity and shipment readiness.</li><li>Risk, Cost &amp; Change Management: Maintain launch risk visibility and control engineering-change, inventory, premium-freight, capacity and obsolescence exposure through timely recovery actions and escalation.</li><li>Performance Improvement &amp; Handover: Standardize NPI planning dashboards and routines, improve data quality and automation, and complete a controlled handover to the series MRP controller after SOP. KEY DELIVERABLES / SUCCESS MEASURES</li><li>On-time completion of NPI supply chain deliverables and gate commitments.&nbsp;</li><li>Material availability and build readiness for prototype, validation, pilot, PPAP and SOP events.</li><li>Accurate BOM, sourcing and MRP master-data readiness before planning execution.</li><li>Clear visibility of shortages, capacity constraints, inventory exposure, freight risk and recovery dates.</li><li>On-time PPAP/PSW support, SOP achievement and stable ramp-up without avoidable customer disruption.</li><li>Controlled inventory, premium freight and obsolescence exposure through early risk management.</li><li>Timely and complete handover from NPI planning to regular series planning after SOP.</li></ul> Requirements: Technical Skills <ul><li>SAP planning and procurement processes (MRP, stock/requirements analysis, material master, PR/PO and inventory visibility) - mandatory.</li><li>Advanced Microsoft Excel, including analytical models, PivotTables, lookups, dashboard preparation.</li><li>Power BI or an equivalent reporting and visualization tool.</li><li>Working knowledge of BOMs, routings, capacity planning, production scheduling, inventory planning, supplier lead times and logistics.</li><li>Good understanding of automotive NPI/NPD phases, PPAP/PSW readiness.</li><li>Bachelors degree, preferably in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations or a related discipline.</li><li>MBA or equivalent postgraduate qualification is preferred.</li><li>Strong analytical, problem-solving and data-management capability.</li><li>Clear communication, stakeholder management and cross-functional partnership skills.</li><li>Working knowledge of automotive manufacturing, launch planning and project-gate governance.</li><li>3 to 7 years of relevant experience in supply chain, material planning, production planning or NPI/NPD planning within a manufacturing environment.</li><li>Experience managing material and capacity readiness for new product launches from prototype through SOP and ramp-up.</li><li>Hands-on experience with SAP MRP, planning master data, shortage management and supplier follow-up.</li><li>Experience coordinating across Project Management, Engineering, Quality, Operations, Procurement and Logistics.</li><li>People leadership or team-coordination experience, with evidence of disciplined follow-up and escalation.</li></ul>

Responsibilities : <ul><li>Engage executive and corporate users to understand needs, decision workflows and pain points.</li><li>Translate requirements into clear product definitions, user stories and acceptance criteria.</li><li>Run structured discovery and experimentation to validate value and feasibility before build commitments are made.</li><li>Identify opportunities to extend assigned products from task-level support to broader workflow automation, and contribute these to the product roadmap.&nbsp;</li><li>Own the end-to-end delivery of assigned AI products, including Rocket, from definition through to launch.</li><li>Ensure quality, usability and readiness criteria are met before release to a senior user base.&nbsp;</li><li>Own assigned products after launch, driving iterative improvement based on usage data and user feedback.</li><li>Define, track and report product KPIs covering adoption, usage, accuracy, satisfaction and time saved.</li><li>Register and maintain AI use cases for assigned products within the agreed portfolio management process.&nbsp;</li><li>Act as the day-to-day product interface for executive and corporate stakeholders.&nbsp;</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>3 – 6 years of experience in digital or AI product management, product ownership or equivalent delivery roles.&nbsp;</li><li>Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field such as information technology, business, finance, engineering or mathematics.&nbsp;</li><li>Hands-on experience in product management across discovery, delivery and lifecycle.&nbsp;</li><li>Exposure to AI, automation or data-driven products.&nbsp;</li></ul>

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