Life Unlimited. At Smith+Nephew we design and manufacture technology that takes the limits off living.
Responsible for managing and developing the Supply Chain team in Colombia ensuring adequate resources, technology and processes to maintain or gain a leadership market position in the business we operate. Must design strategies and implement projects to drive efficiencies, support growth and improve service levels. The leader must be able to drive sustainable value creation through operational excellence, operational improvements of the S+N’s supply chain network in the country. The leader must promote a culture of care, collaboration and courage.
This role is part of the Latin America and Canada (LAC) Supply Chain leadership team as well as the Colombia leadership team.

• Support shipments to meet and exceed sales objectives 20%
• Maintain warehouse and distribution costs within budget (20%)
• Meet and exceed LIFR (line in full rate) objectives (20%)
• Ensure inventory and loaner accuracy (20%)
• Optimize inventory levels (20%)
• Work with the regional commercial and operations leadership (in orthopedics, trauma and extremities, sports medicine and wound management) to translate the strategic imperatives into operational projects and initiatives.
• Implement game-changing improvements in operations for the country and share best practices with the LAC region.
• Lead operational transformation projects, managing key leadership relationships to ensure alignment across the organization, ensuring proper planning, execution, visibility, tracking and governance to improve implementation success rates.
• Foster close working relationships with global and regional sales leaders, customers, marketing leaders, and operations to use and align with the transformation strategy.
• Ensure proper use of reporting tools, updates, and visibility into KPIs to ensure fact-based decisions and actions.
• Drive solutions to collect data and competitive intelligence metrics to support stock analysis.
• Lead a local warehouse, more than 5 loaner set management centres, technical services and 3PLs in the country.