Supply Chain Lead / Manager
Lyka Pet Food, Australia
Job Description
Lyka is an Australian founded pet wellness company that’s shaking up an outdated industry and paving the way for happier, healthier pets. Sadly, statistics have shown us that approximately eighty percent of pets are suffering from dental disease, with one in every three being diagnosed with cancer, and forty-one percent overweight. As humans we are acutely aware of the positive impact fresh wholefoods can have on our health and wellbeing, however the same hasn’t always been said for our furry friends. We're on a mission to change that, starting with nutritionally balanced, wholefood meals delivered direct to doors around Australia. As the world’s most sustainable pet wellness company, we’re putting pets and our planet first.
Today, we are proud to share we’ve served and fed over 10 million meals to puppers and their parents across Australia, and this is just the beginning. Our vision is to create multiple nutritional products, adding disease prevention meals and supplements, and take Lyka into new markets.
Currently, we have a team of 140 pet-obsessed people on our team who share our vision. These carefully selected people are dedicated to building the next generation of technology and products to help empower pet parents to take control over their pet’s wellbeing. To date, we have raised over $40m in funding from our venture fund investments and pet industry insiders, who believe in our mission and ability to drive change in an outdated industry, providing nutrition that nourishes puppers from the inside out.
Are you ready to shake things up and give pets the life they deserve? Come join your people.
The Team and The Role
Lyka’s Manufacturing amp; Supply Chain team is growing and is on the hunt for an exceptional Supply Chain Lead. This is an integral role in growing, establishing, and embedding supply chain best practice.
You will be part of our high performing and driven Manufacturing amp; Supply Chain (Mamp;SC), leadership team, so will have a direct impact on setting to striving towards our strategic vision, and as such, this role also encompasses providing subject matter expertise and decision making into progressing the overall Lyka strategy as the business rapidly grows.
If you work well under pressure and want an opportunity that will test and reward you in equal measure, this role is for you.
Key Role Responsibilities
- Identifying and mitigate safety and quality risks to our great team and the consumer e.g. Chain of Responsibility, HACCP
- Take accountability of the national supply chain network, optimising it as our footprint of facilities and warehouses continues to grow
- Take accountability of international shipping, currently for importation of equipment and materials, but later focused on exportation as that part of Lyka’s strategic plan is executed
- Represent Lyka in 3PL and courier relationships, engaging on strategic projects, service level management, and daily problem solving
- Take accountability for leading and coordinating external warehousing and storage
- Take accountability for managing of shipping zones and of geographical expansion opportunities
- Take accountability for continuous improvement across the network, improving service levels and cost as part of Lyka’s Operational Excellence Roadmap
- Lead supply chain aspects of internal projects, e.g., launching new products or new facilities
Requirements
- Degree qualified in a supply chain, logistics or business-related discipline
- Minimum of 3-year experience within the food, pharmaceutical manufacturing industry preferred although other FMCG supply chain industry experience will be considered
- Minimum of 3-year experience in an supply chain leadership role
- The ability to engage others and demonstrate a hands-on approach is a must
- Although not essential, experience in working in an environment which has recognised safety and quality standards preferred e.g., ISO45001, ISO22000, BRC, AS5812, FSSC, HACCP
- A self-motivated individual with hands on experience in engaging shop floor teams in embedding engineering best practice methodologies
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills, capable of dealing with large databases and perform complex analysis
- Advanced Excel skills; ability to use SQL and business intelligence tools (e.g. Tableau) is particularly advantageous
- Strong influencing skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong collaboration across multiple teams amp; stakeholders
Benefits
- Work in a fast-growing start-up, experiencing what goes behind the scenes to sustain hyper-growth for a start-up with a physical product!
- Growth and Development Lyka is growing extremely quickly, whi