Senior Executive - Operations - Operations

(Based at Katunayake)

MAS Active, a key division of MAS Holdings, is a global leader in athleisure and performance wear, engineered for agility, comfort, and endurance. With a sharp focus on blending cutting-edge sports technology with contemporary fashion, MAS Active serves some of the world’s most iconic brands including lululemon, Patagonia, Lacoste, LKSD, Arcteryx, Vuori, and Gymshark. From next-to-skin wearables to smart apparel that tracks fitness metrics and workout analytics, MAS Active is at the forefront of apparel innovation, delivering solutions trusted by elite athletes, fitness professionals, and global celebrities alike. By combining deep domain expertise in performance-wear with sustainable innovation, MAS Active is not just shaping the future of apparel, but redefining how the world moves, trains, and lives. We are seeking for an individual to ensure the availability of fabric, accessories and embellishments, monitoring the issuance of same with regard to aspects such as quantity, quality and on-time delivery whilst, addressing issues/ bottlenecks including those in areas such as SAP, Brand Protection, Finished Goods and Stores thereby, facilitating uninterrupted operations.

Key Responsibilities:

Participate at weekly planning meetings in order to ensure all accessories and raw material are made available in the required quantities and qualities in order to run the weekly frozen plan whilst, making necessary amendments to the plan considering delivery dates, efficiencies, sold hour targets.
Follow-up on the weekly RM availability with the aid of the RM stability report and proactively address deviations with respective personal.
Check the RM pull plan to ensure that RM requirements for the daily cut plan is called out in a timely manner whilst, ensuring RM DTD is maintained within the stipulated levels.
Evaluate root causes pertaining to the PTP progress whilst, taking necessary steps to ensure and support the achievement of PTP targets.
Check embellishment/ special requirements of the planned styles, coordinate with embellishment teams to secure embellishment capacities whilst, monitoring the embellishment loading plan and output plan in order to provide an uninterrupted input flow to production.
Check the monthly shipment schedule to ensure monthly sales targets are achieved, in the event of any deviations look for possible shipment advances and coordinate with relevant parties to ensure the update of same.
Manage factory information and the internal SAP team in order to ensure all plant performance indicators are maintained in an orderly and accurate manner, thereby ensuring system accuracy.
Oversee and ensure stores operations such as system/ stock accuracy, timely delivery of RM to the production process and supplier integration take place in an accurate and effective manner thereby, supporting an efficient operations process.
Liaise/ work with the Business Division, Suppliers and Columbia buyers to solve RM quality issues by supporting the Fabric Inspection and Quality team to ensure and develop raw material as per the required quality levels.
Oversee operations of the Finished Goods Warehouse by coordinating with the Commercial team with regard to the following.
Ensure adherence to organizational standards such as: SOPs, compliance standards, health and safety and 5S in day-to-day activities whilst, leading MOS initiatives such as PDCAs, Kaizen and other special projects within the team.
Assess resource requirements, provide information for the preparation of annual budgets and monitor/ control departmental expenditure ensuring it is in line with the budget.

Skills and Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in operations management, Industrial Engineering.
4 ‐ 5 years of related work experience which includes experience in a manufacturing environment.