Key Skills

Job Description

Bata is one of the world’s leading footwear manufacturers and retailers, with over 30,000 employees and more than 5,000 stores across 70+ countries. Founded in 1894 by Thomas Bata, the company has built a strong legacy of providing quality footwear at accessible prices while maintaining a people-centric and values-driven approach. With 130 years of innovation and responsible business practices, Bata combines global scale with a decentralized operating model that enables agility, local market responsiveness, and strong customer and community connections worldwide. Job Purpose: Responsible for analyzing, monitoring, and improving end-to-end supply chain performance across demand and supply planning, sourcing, production, logistics, supplier management, and order fulfillment. This role transforms supply chain data into actionable insights to improve delivery performance, identify risks, support business decisions, and drive continuous improvement. Key Responsbilities: Supply Chain Performance & Reporting Monitor end-to-end supply chain performance, including purchase orders, production progress, supplier performance, forecast accuracy, delivery performance, lead time, shipment volume, and logistics performance. Prepare weekly, monthly, quarterly, and ad hoc management reports and dashboards. Identify trends, bottlenecks, delays, performance gaps, and key supply chain risks. Conduct root-cause analysis, quantify business impact, recommend corrective actions, and follow through to resolution. Purchase Order & Delivery Management Monitor purchase orders from issuance through production, shipment, receipt, and final delivery. Track key PO milestones, including requested, original, revised, and actual ex-factory dates, shipment dates, expected arrival, and actual receipt. Identify overdue, delayed, or at-risk orders and coordinate with suppliers and internal teams on recovery actions. Analyze delays by supplier, 3rd party, brand, country of origin, and region. Monitor order amendments, cancellations, shortages, and quantity changes. Supplier, Factory & Capacity Performance Monitor supplier and factory KPIs including on-time ex-factory performance, production lead time, capacity utilization, order confirmation, delivery reliability, and order accuracy. Maintain supplier scorecards and performance dashboards. Analyze supplier capacity against forecasted and confirmed demand and support supplier allocation and sourcing decisions. Identify underperforming suppliers and track improvement actions. Demand, Supply & Logistics Analysis Support demand and supply planning through forecast, order, capacity, and shipment analysis. Monitor forecast accuracy and demand changes and highlight potential shortages or capacity constraints. Support S&OP/IBP processes and balancing of demand and supply across suppliers, factories, and markets. Monitor shipment performance, freight cost, transit time, container utilization, forwarder performance, and delivery delays. Identify shipment consolidation and transportation cost-saving opportunities. Data Management, Analytics & Process Improvement Collect, validate, consolidate, and reconcile supply chain data from multiple sources to ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency. Standardize supplier, country, date, KPI, and reporting information and investigate missing, duplicate, or inconsistent records. Develop and maintain dashboards covering key KPIs such as OTD, OXF, OTIF, delayed orders, supplier performance, forecast accuracy, freight cost, shipment volume, lead time, order fulfillment, and capacity utilization. Automate recurring reports and reduce manual or duplicate data entry. Support development of SOPs, reporting standards, data governance, system improvements, and continuous improvement initiatives. Stakeholder Management Work closely with Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Sourcing, Manufacturing, Logistics, Finance, Merchandising, Product Development, Suppliers, Freight Forwarders, and Country Teams. Ensure supply chain information, risks, and actions are communicated clearly and resolved in a timely manner. Qualifications & Skills: Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business Administration, Data Analytics, or related discipline preferred. Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex datasets and translate findings into actionable recommendations. Advanced Excel skills including PivotTables, PivotCharts, XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, formulas, and data visualization. Experience with Power BI and management dashboard development is preferred. Strong problem-solving, attention to detail, communication, and stakeholder management skills. Ability to work effectively across suppliers, factories, logistics partners, country teams, and senior management.

Core Responsibilities

Analyze and report on end-to-end supply chain performance, including purchase orders, suppliers, production, demand and supply planning, and logistics. Identify risks and performance issues, recommend and track corrective actions, maintain dashboards and data quality, and support continuous improvement with internal teams and external partners.

Requirements

A bachelor's degree in supply chain management, logistics, business administration, data analytics, or a related discipline is preferred. Candidates should have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, advanced Excel proficiency, and effective communication and stakeholder management abilities; Power BI and dashboard development experience are preferred.