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At Filtrona, we are committed to creating sustainable filter solutions for today and tomorrow, driven by innovation, responsibility, and a strong customer focus. We invest in our people, cultivating a vibrant, performance-driven culture that values continuous learning, collaboration, and creativity. By fostering a supportive work environment, we empower our teams to lead with purpose and deliver excellence in everything we do.
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Commercial Analyst
On-site
Contract
About the Role
This role will support the Global Commercial Excellence team on performance indicators, providing value-add analyses such as growth and profit opportunities, customer needs and support development of strategic market plans, go-to-market plans and materials.
- Work with cross functional team including Finance and Customer Support team to provide value add reports incorporating YTD, Plan, Forecast sales data
- Support yearly commercial plan and strategic planning, budgeting and forecasting cycle through sales performance analysis
- Support in data analysis and report on opportunity pipeline, market/ competition situation, characteristics of wins vs losses, etc.
- Lead the continuous development of reporting and analysis process to ensure alignment to business goals
- Understand and identify real customer needs and key buying factors within the segments, evaluate the elements that customers are willing to pay for and developing customer specific and quantified value propositions.
- Works closely with Sales team to (a) Identify addressable market and prioritize opportunities for growth; (b) Develop & support Sales to execute strategy to increase Share of Wallet (SOW); and (c) establish & implement a structured action plan.
What we are looking for
- 3 to 5 years of B2B experience in commercial or marketing role.
- Excellent analytical skills. Demonstrated strong trouble shooting abilities and passion for continuous improvement.
- Problem solver who can define issues and drive issue resolutions.
- Able to work independently and drive alignment across multi-functional teams.
- Bachelor Degree in Business and Marketing. MBA preferred.
Manager, Global Projects
On-site
Full-time
About the Role
The Manager, Global Projects, is responsible for planning, executing, and delivering operational projects that improve efficiency, scalability, quality, and cost-effectiveness across the organization. This role partners closely with Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, IT, and other business units to ensure initiatives are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with operational objectives.
- Lead operational projects focused on process optimization, cost reduction, capacity planning, and performance improvement.
- Define project scope, goals, deliverables, timelines, and success metrics in collaboration with operational stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans, budgets, and resource allocations.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams to execute operational initiatives.
- Monitor project performance using KPIs, dashboards, and reporting tools.
- Identify operational risks, dependencies, and constraints; develop mitigation plans.
- Manage change control processes and ensure smooth implementation of operational changes.
- Facilitate stakeholder meetings, including project kickoffs, status updates, and post-implementation reviews.
- Ensure projects comply with internal policies, quality standards, and regulatory requirements.
- Document processes, workflows, and lessons learned to support continuous improvement.
What we are looking for
- 6 to 8 years of experience in project management, preferably within an operations or process-driven environment.
- Experience managing cross-functional teams and multiple concurrent projects.
- Experience with project management and collaboration tools.
- Experience in supplier evaluation and collaboration.
- Mechanical understanding of parts, assemblies, and manufacturing methods preferred.
- Possess professional working proficiency in Mandarin, as this role requires close collaboration with internal and external stakeholders in China
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or related discipline.
Category Manager (Procurement)
On-site
Full-time
About the Role
This is a key role within the Global Procurement team, reporting to the Global Procurement Director. The Category Manager is responsible for overall management of relevant procurement categories assigned to them (direct and indirect). The role will also support any strategic business initiatives to maximize revenue and profit.
Responsibilities
- Manage a spend of US$100M to UD$200M
- Maintain and strengthen supplier relationships
- Develop and implement specific category planning and management
- Develop and maintain category-specific knowledge, market intelligence that capture best practices
- Leverage market insights and trends to drive strategic decisions/sourcing initiatives in line with business goals and objectives
- Keep up to date with trends and innovations, regulations and new technology that can impact on the business
- Leverage category expertise to support new sales and businesses
- Establish, grow, and leverage network of suppliers
- Work collaboratively with suppliers and internal stakeholders to identify continuous improvement plans
- Assess suitable alternative vendors to de-risk existing supplier base
- Forecast price trends and their impact on future activities, by studying relevant indices
- Compare and evaluate offers from suppliers and be key contact point in category negotiations
- Negotiate contract terms of agreement and pricing
- Collate reports on purchases within each category, including cost analyses
- Lead Procurement Continuous Improvement Projects
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
- Minimum 10 years of procurement or category-related / supplier working experience of which majority is focused on strategic sourcing or category management experience for direct spend
- Experience with strategy development, budgeting and financial management
- Good understanding of the supplier landscape and interpretation of market trends
- Ability to develop and frequently refresh category market intelligence
- Strong desire to drive the category forwards to deliver incremental value for the business
- Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence
Senior Analyst, Supply Chain
On-site
Full-time
We are looking for a Senior Analyst, Supply Chain to join our team.
S/he will be responsible for analyzing, modeling, and optimizing our end-to-end supply chain to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve resilience. The incumbent will leverage data-driven insights to identify opportunities for improvement, lead cross-functional projects, and support the implementation of best-in-class supply chain processes. The ideal candidate is a problem-solver with a deep understanding of supply chain principles and a passion for continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain a suite of KPIs and dashboards to monitor supply chain performance across planning, procurement, manufacturing, and logistics.
- Conduct deep-dive analyses on key metrics (e.g., On-Time-In-Full (OTIF), inventory turnover, manufacturing yield, total delivered cost) to identify root causes of variance and performance gaps.
- Analyze global logistics data to optimize transportation modes, routes, and carrier performance.
- Lead and participate in value stream mapping and process improvement initiatives to eliminate waste and enhance flow within the supply chain.
- Model “what-if” scenarios to evaluate the impact of changes in demand, sourcing strategies, or production planning.
- Support the deployment of Lean/Six Sigma methodologies and tools across the global supply chain network.
- Identify and quantify opportunities for cost savings and service level improvements.
- Act as a key liaison between Supply Planning, Manufacturing, Procurement, and Commercial teams to ensure alignment and data integrity.
- Lead or co-lead projects focused on supply chain digitization, S&OP (Sales & Inventory Operations Planning) process enhancement, and network optimization.
- Prepare and present clear, concise reports and recommendations to senior management to support strategic decision-making.
- Serve as a super-user for key supply chain systems (ERP, e.g., SAP; Advanced Planning Systems; BI tools like Power BI or Tableau).
- Identify opportunities to enhance system capabilities and support the implementation of new supply chain technologies.
What we are looking for
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Analytics, Engineering, Finance, or a related field.
- 5+ years of progressive experience in a supply chain analytics, continuous improvement, or operations research role, preferably within a global manufacturing environment (FMCG, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, or related industries).
- Proven expertise in data analysis and visualization tools (e.g., Advanced Excel, Power BI, Tableau, SQL).
- Strong experience with ERP systems; SAP S/4HANA or APO/IBP experience is highly desirable.
- Demonstrable experience in process improvement methodologies (Lean, Six Sigma Green/Black Belt).
- Excellent project management and communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
Production Planner
On-site
Full-time
Roles and Responsibilities
Responsible for leading the site production planning and supply planning activities, ensuring stable operations, optimal inventory levels, and reliable customer service performance. The role is critical to work with cross functional teams such as supply planning, production, procurement, supply planning, order management, customer support, commercial and so forth to balance demand, capacity, material availability and keep optimize inventory. In summary, supporting the site broader supply chain strategy including working with production to optimize output and meet customer requirements.
The successful incumbent must be able to work independently and experienced in balancing complex demand and supply environment with high requirement for agility.
- Production Planning (primary scope #1) and Supply Planning (primary scope #2)
- Own the end-to-end production planning, work with supply planning to convert demand (including customers/commercial insights) to master plan and then executable and most effective weekly and daily schedule.
- Balance material supply, production capacity to ensure stable operations that meets customers requested delivery (OTIF1 and OTIF2).
- Maintain accurate planning parameters that is committed by production in the determine table/ ERP (eg leadtime, safety stock, MOQ, cycle time, output/min, change part, etc).
- Lead the daily SC DDS routines and be the connector between production DDS issue arise and impact to supply, including supporting supply planner in escalating supply impact and actions needed to factory/plant DDS.
- Work with supply planning in leading the weekly SNOE, anticipating risks, proposed scenario plans and mitigation/recovery options. Escalating risk to supply to IBP processes.
- Escalate CTS failure.
- Inventory Management
- Monitor and manage inventory level for RM, WIP/ baserod and finished goods including aging inventory controls.
- Ensure inventory aligns with global supply chain directions and site targets.
- Where necessary, lead root cause analysis for inventory variances and implement corrective actions including tracking onholds.
- Drive inventory optimization initiatives in collaboration with procurement, supply planning, production and warehouse.
- Material availability & supply assurance
- Work with supply planner and procurement to ensure the material availability for production planning.
- Support material risk assessments and mitigation plans for critical or long-lead time items.
- Work with supply planning, business planning managers and analyst to understand the demand trend including seasonality and abnormality. Translate this to optimize inventory strategy that will be able to support stable supply.
- Collaboration with other functions
- Work hand in hand with production leaders to ensure schedule adherence/ comply to schedule and smooth executions on shopfloor.
- Adjust plans proactively during unexpected events while protecting customer commitment.
- Ensure reliable on-time delivery (OTIF 1 and OTIF 2) through balanced planning and proactive risk management.
- Support customer service with delivery commitment, re-scheduling decisions and root cause analysis of delayed orders.
- Continuous Improvement
- Identify bottlenecks or inefficiencies in planning, scheduling and inventory processes and translate that into actionable improvement plan and initiatives.
- Support digitization of planning tool, parameter governance and system discipline.
Qualification and Experience Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Operations, Engineering or Business.
- 5-8 years’ experience in production or supply planning in a manufacturing environment.
- Experience and understand highly complex and volatile demand-supply environment.
- Strong understanding of MRP/ERP systems, planning logics, capacity planning, and inventory. management.
- Prior exposure to end-to-end supply chain processes.
- Analytical skills using excel, planning tools and data driven decision making.
Preferred Skills
- Demand forecasting exposure
- Material planning coordination
- Cost and inventory optimization
- Strong stakeholder communication
- Ability to balance short-term firefighting and long-term planning disciplines
- Potential to grow into a leadership role
Personal Attributes
- Structured and disciplined, ensures process adherence
- Proactive problem solver with a calm, solutions-oriented mindset
- Strong communicator
- Detailed-oriented but strategic, ie able to see bigger picture and project forward to understand potential risk and actions to mitigate
- High learning agility
- Ambitious and motivated to progress into higher supply chain leadership roles
Key Relationships with Internal and External Stakeholders
Senior Tax Specialist
On-site
Full-time
Role Responsibilities
Ensure full compliance with Thai tax regulations, including accurate and timely filing and payment of all tax obligations (CIT, VAT, WHT, and others) of two local entities, while proactively identifying reconciling items and potential tax issues.
- Collaborate with Revenue Department officers, external tax advisors, transfer pricing consultants, and auditors to ensure compliance with tax and transfer pricing requirements, driving timely resolution of issues and implementation of corrective actions.
- Serve as a tax business partner to management and cross-functional teams, providing expert advice and identifying tax optimization opportunities in business operations or new projects.
- Lead and represent the company during tax audits by the Thailand Revenue Department, ensuring all required documentation and responses are accurate, complete, and submitted within the prescribed timelines.
- Serve as the key liaison with the Group Head of Tax, providing regular updates on local tax matters, transfer pricing activities, and audit progress through the Tax Audit Tracker.
- Verify that import/export customs declarations are consistent with commercial invoices and output VAT reports, ensuring accuracy and completeness in VAT reporting.
- Oversee end-to-end AP tax processes, including invoice verification, tax compliance checks, payment execution, and maintenance of complete, audit-ready tax and AP records.
What we are looking for
- 6 to 8 years of hands-on experience in corporate tax, VAT, WHT compliances; and tax audit within a multinational or manufacturing environment
- Exposure to transfer pricing documentation and intercompany transactions.
- Familiarity with Accounts Payable (AP) processes including invoice verification and payment execution.
- Good understanding of tax accounting concepts, including deferred tax, tax reconciliation (fiscal vs. commercial), and tax provisions.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration (CPA, Tax Auditor, or Master’s in Taxation preferred).
- Effective communicator in both Thai and English
Supply Chain Intern
Hybrid
Internship
We are looking for an intern to join our Global Supply Chain team for a minimum of three (3) months.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop dashboards and monitor Supply Chain KPI’s
- Deep dive analysis on KPI failures weekly and monthly and propose action plan agreed with Supply Chain sites
- Participate in transformation or improvement projects related to Supply Chain
- Work with stakeholders to automate Supply Chain reports
- Assist Business Planning on forecast analysis, review and monitor changes weekly
- Participate in key meetings involving Supply Chain Excellence team (Site Reviews, S&OE, Inventory Review, LV, etc)
KEY REQUIREMENTS
- Degree in Business Administration or Analytics/Supply Chain/Data Science
- Well verse with Power BI, Excel and Power Point
- Have had exposure to managing projects
- Data analytics
- Flexible to extend internship duration
Production Planner
On-site
Full-time
About the job
Responsibilities
Material planning based on the production schedule and sales forecasts
- Monitoring production capacities considering changes in the production plan
- Daily communication with production – handling arising issues
- Ensuring information flow between production and customer relations teams
- Active participation in defining the monthly Masterplan (both finished products and basic filters)
- Setting and communicating the weekly plan to production
- Preparing daily/weekly/monthly reports
- Managing accruals at the end of the month
- Carrying out tasks in accordance with processes and guidelines to achieve the targets set for corporate and production planning areas
Requirements
- Secondary education
- Minimum 3 years of relevant experience in a manufacturing environment
- Conversational level English proficiency
- Advanced knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
- Coordination skills, leadership attitude
- Ability to follow defined processes
- Conflict management skills
- Initiative-taking, proactive, flexible approach
- Positive and cooperative attitude
Nice-to-have
- Higher education (college/university degree in engineering or logistics)
- Knowledge and experience in project management
- Familiarity with LEAN manufacturing principles
