Manager, Supply Chain — Operations Excellence

Company Description

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Job Description

Get to Know the Team

GrabMart is Grab's premier on-demand daily essentials and grocery delivery service, bringing everything from local storefronts to our customers' doorsteps. Operating within Grab's massive ecosystem, our mission is to deliver unmatched speed, convenience, and reliability to millions of consumers across Southeast Asia.

Get to Know the Role

As the Manager of Supply Chain Operations Excellence, you will design, implement, and scale world-class standard operating procedures (SOPs) across our qCommerce network of dark stores and distribution centers.

Serving as the champion for operational excellence, you will lead continuous optimization efforts to drive measurable improvements across our core supply chain metrics, including reliability, lead time (LT), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

You will report to Head of Supply Chain and be based onsite at Petaling Jaya office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Standard Work & Process Design: Design, document, and enforce standard work (SOPs) for all in-store and warehouse fulfillment activities, including picking, packing, counter handover flow, and outbound processes.
• Operational Excellence (OE) Implementation: Strengthen in-store operations by designing and rolling out roles like the 'store captain' to push for operation quality and ensuring adherence to key performance indicators like pick/pack/ready on time metrics.
• Continuous Optimization: Identify and address process bottlenecks and inefficiencies across the supply chain, such as reducing store operation lead time by redesigning outbound processes or optimizing manpower planning.
• Performance Monitoring & Improvement: Build and utilize monitoring tools like the operation performance center and dashboards to monitor operational metrics, review alarms, and manage critical systems.
• Last-Mile Fulfillment Optimization: Lead the continuous improvement of last-mile delivery processes, including rolling out new fulfillment orchestrations to improve reliability.
• Warehouse and Dark Store Layout Design: Lead the end-to-end design, implementation, and optimization of dark store and distribution center layouts (e.g., racking, cold chain/chiller placement, inbound/outbound zones) to maximize space utilization, minimize pick travel time, and improve material handling efficiency.
• Risk & Incident Management: Set up response mechanisms to address force majeure events (e.g., heavy rain, floods) and proactively manage potential incidents to maintain reliability and meet SLAs.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Performance will be measured against critical OE metrics, including:

• Reliability: Order Completion Rate, Completed Filled Rate, and Pax/Mex/Dax Request Cancellation Rates.
• Lead Time (LT): Create to Delivery time, and breakdown metrics such as Accept to Ship LT and Accept to Pick Start LT.
• SLA & Compliance: Ship On Time Rate, Deliver On Time Rate, and MOR Adoption Rate.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Minimum 6-8 years of experience in supply chain management, logistics, or operations, with a strong focus on process optimization and operational excellence.
• Proven expertise in designing and implementing scalable standard work (SOPs) in a dynamic, high-volume environment (e.g., quick commerce, dark stores).
• Experience in managing 3PL/4PL providers and holding them accountable to strict performance SLAs (e.g., late slams, on-time performance).
• Familiarity with supply chain technologies such as Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) and Transportation Management Systems (TMS).

Additional Information

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

What We Stand For At Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.