Supply Chain Manager (m/f/d)

About the job

Bigler AG is an independent family business in the meat processing industry. More than 850 employees dedicate themselves every day with commitment and the most modern production facilities to serve our growing customer base. We supply butcher shops as well as retail outlets throughout Switzerland with the best quality fresh meat, meat specialties, and convenience products. We take responsibility for people and animals and strive every day to be a role model in our industry.
 

Supply Chain Manager (m/f/d)

Your Challenge:

Freshness, quality, and reliability are crucial in our business. To ensure our products arrive at our customers at the right time, in the right quantity, and in the desired quality, we need a person who keeps an overview – even when everything suddenly changes from the plan.

For this central hub function, we are looking for an experienced, solution-oriented, and strong leadership personality as Supply Chain Manager (m/f/d).

Your Tasks:

• Overall responsibility for planning and scheduling customer orders
• Coordination of incoming orders and alignment of production, product availability, and transport
• Ensuring high product availability and early detection of possible bottlenecks
• Developing short-term and pragmatic solutions together with production, logistics, quality assurance, and other internal departments
• Capacity planning and assessment of whether additional or short-term large orders (promotions) can be operationally implemented
• Leading around 50 employees and responsibility for personnel deployment planning
• Ensuring efficient daily operations and active troubleshooting in case of deviations or disruptions
• Early detection of malfunctions in systems and interfaces as well as taking on first-level support tasks
• Ensuring a smooth labelling and tagging process
• Maintaining article master data and implementing changes in labels and markings in close cooperation with quality assurance
• Supporting and participating in various projects, for example in maintenance, process optimisation, and automation
• Continuous improvement of processes, structures, and interfaces within the supply chain
• Close cooperation with internal and external contacts with the aim of enabling optimal solutions for our customers even in the event of short-term changes

Your Profile:

It is advantageous if you started your professional career as a meat specialist or butcher and later developed towards logistics, scheduling, or supply chain.

You bring with you:

• Experience in logistics, freight forwarding, scheduling, or supply chain
• Leadership experience and enjoyment of operational daily business
• Strong understanding of freshness, meat products, and food processes
• High customer orientation and pronounced organisational talent
• Technical flair and a pronounced hands-on mentality
• Flexibility and calmness in a dynamic, short-term oriented environment

What distinguishes you:

You think ahead, recognise bottlenecks early, and find pragmatic solutions. You connect customer needs, production, logistics, and available capacities into a functioning whole.

In short: You enjoy making the seemingly impossible possible.

What Awaits You:

• A central key position with a lot of responsibility, short decision-making paths, and a varied working day at the interface of production, logistics, quality, and customers.
• A responsible area of work in a future-oriented company
• A familiar, committed, and competent team
• A respectful and multicultural working environment
• Attractive employment conditions
• Individual development and training opportunities
• An attractive workplace in the Bernese Seeland

Interested?