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As the APO Operations Manager, you will help shape and drive the strategic direction of our distribution operations across the Asia-Pacific region, ensuring alignment with global operations and business objectives while respecting local nuances and specificities. You will be the regional champion for operational excellence, partnering closely with our APO operational leaders — who will report directly to you — to define and execute strategies that support commercial growth, streamline processes, and elevate our regional performance. This role demands a balance of high-level vision and hands-on leadership: you will collaborate with key stakeholders, both locally and globally, to secure resources and remove barriers, while also empowering your direct reports and their teams to innovate and excel.

In this role, you will act as the voice of APO operations, advocating for regional priorities and fostering stronger integration between APO and our global network. You will proactively identify and mitigate supply-chain risks unique to the region, establish clear metrics for success, and continuously drive and support harmonization and transformative initiatives that unlock new levels of efficiency and network resiliency. Your leadership will cultivate a culture of transparency, trust-based delegation, and cross-regional collaboration, ensuring that Asia-Pacific contributions are both visible and valued within the broader organization.

• Define & Align Strategy: Contribute to a clear APO distribution strategy aligned with global operations goals, commercial priorities, and local complexities; translate strategic objectives into actionable regional roadmaps and SMART goals.


• Stakeholders Management & Advocacy: Build and maintain strong relationships with local commercial leaders to anticipate market needs and adapt operational plans; serve as the primary liaison between APO operations, local stakeholders, and global functions (e.g., Global Trade, Regulatory, Compliance, Finance, HR) and championing the needs and perspectives of APO operations, securing necessary support and resources, and aligning priorities.


• Team Leadership & Development: Facilitate cross-regional knowledge sharing and best-practice exchange to harness synergies across the APO organization and drive innovation; coach, mentor, and empower the regional operational leaders, fostering a culture of high performance, collaboration, and professional growth without micromanagement.


• Drive Operational Excellence & Harmonization: Lead process standardization across company-owned warehouses and 3PL partnerships to ensure consistency, efficiency, and compliance with global standards; champion continuous improvement and process & systems transformation initiatives—leveraging analytics, technology, and innovative solutions—to optimize operational effectiveness.


• Risk Management & Agility: Proactively identify regional supply-chain risks (e.g., geopolitical, regulatory, or logistical) and assist with contingency plans to ensure business continuity; make timely, data-informed decisions to address disruptions, remove bottlenecks, and maintain operational agility.


• Performance Monitoring & Reporting: Track KPIs and measure progress against strategic goals (e.g., service levels, cost to serve, network capacity); provide regular updates and insights to senior leadership, highlighting regional successes and emerging challenges.

• Supply-chain expertise: solid understanding and practical knowledge of global supply chains and distribution operations, typically developed over several years in logistics or distribution-related roles.


• Strategic mindset: ability to define and execute regional distribution strategies that align with broader organizational objectives.


• Stakeholder management: able to engage and collaborate cross-functionally, navigate a matrixed environment, and bridge gaps through building strong partnerships and balancing diverse priorities and perspectives.


• Agility & decisiveness: problem-solving mindset, able to apply sound judgment and adapt rapidly to implement solutions and navigate approval processes under tight timelines.


• Team enablement: fosters team empowerment through trust-based delegation, coaching and mentoring, and creates opportunities for people development, visibility and recognition.


• Analytical & data-driven: strong critical-thinking skills; comfortable leveraging data to tackle complex issues, drive decisions, and identify continuous improvement opportunities.


• Financial acumen: experience with cost-to-serve modeling, supporting budget and strategic-planning exercises, and developing financial business cases.


• Risk & compliance orientation: awareness of complexities and challenges related to Asia-Pacific’s regulatory landscape and intrinsic logistical factors, with a proactive approach to operational risk-mitigation planning.


• Operational excellence outlook: experience applying a combination of continuous improvement principles, process optimization concepts, and project management fundamentals to enhance operational performance.


• Digital transformation: familiarity with relevant digital applications and tools (e.g., WMS, TMS, warehouse automation…), and experience supporting or leading new systems deployment a plus.


• Cross-cultural communication: excellent verbal and written communication, adept at adapting style to diverse cultures and audiences.

• Candidates would have around 10 – 15 years of supply-chain and distribution operations experience in a highly matrixed commercial organization; global multinational companies' experience is preferred.


• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business Administration or related field, or equivalent experience.


• Excellent communication skills, fluency in both written and verbal English is a must. Fluency in other Asian languages such as Mandarin, Japanese, or Thai is advantageous.

• This position must be based in the APO region, preferably at the IDEXX head office in Singapore. Location flexibility may be considered for the right candidate.


• The role is primarily office-based, involving regular use of computers and extended periods of desk work.


• Cross-regional collaboration will involve working across multiple time zones, including regular virtual meetings with global, US and EU-based teams.


• International travel may be required up to approximately 20% of the time.

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Job Summary

As the APO Operations Manager, you will help shape and drive the strategic direction of our distribution operations across the Asia-Pacific region, ensuring alignment with global operations and business objectives while respecting local nuances and specificities. You will be the regional champion for operational excellence, partnering closely with our APO operational leaders — who will report directly to you — to define and execute strategies that support commercial growth, streamline processes, and elevate our regional performance. This role demands a balance of high-level vision and hands-on leadership: you will collaborate with key stakeholders, both locally and globally, to secure resources and remove barriers, while also empowering your direct reports and their teams to innovate and excel.

Job Summary

As the APO Operations Manager, you will help shape and drive the strategic direction of our distribution operations across the Asia-Pacific region, ensuring alignment with global operations and business objectives while respecting local nuances and specificities. You will be the regional champion for operational excellence, partnering closely with our APO operational leaders — who will report directly to you — to define and execute strategies that support commercial growth, streamline processes, and elevate our regional performance. This role demands a balance of high-level vision and hands-on leadership: you will collaborate with key stakeholders, both locally and globally, to secure resources and remove barriers, while also empowering your direct reports and their teams to innovate and excel.

In this role, you will act as the voice of APO operations, advocating for regional priorities and fostering stronger integration between APO and our global network. You will proactively identify and mitigate supply-chain risks unique to the region, establish clear metrics for success, and continuously drive and support harmonization and transformative initiatives that unlock new levels of efficiency and network resiliency. Your leadership will cultivate a culture of transparency, trust-based delegation, and cross-regional collaboration, ensuring that Asia-Pacific contributions are both visible and valued within the broader organization.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

Define & Align Strategy

• Contribute to elaborate a clear, robust APO distribution strategy that aligns with global operations goals, commercial priorities, and local complexities.
• Translate strategic objectives into actionable regional roadmaps and SMART goals.
  
  

• Build and maintain strong relationships with local commercial leaders to anticipate market needs and adapt operational plans accordingly.
• Serve as the primary liaison between APO operations, local stakeholders, and global functions (e.g., Global Trade, Regulatory, Compliance, Finance, HR), championing the needs and perspectives of APO operations, securing necessary support, resources, and aligning priorities.
  
  

• Facilitate cross-regional knowledge sharing and best-practice exchange to harness synergies across the APO organization and drive innovation.
• Support, coach, mentor, and empower the regional operational leaders, fostering a culture of high performance, collaboration, and professional growth without micromanagement.
  
  

• Lead process standardization across company-owned warehouses and 3PL partnerships to ensure consistency, efficiency, and compliance with global standards.
• Champion continuous improvement and process & systems transformation initiatives — leveraging analytics, technology and innovative solutions — to optimize operational effectiveness.
  
  

• Proactively help identify regional supply-chain risks (e.g., geopolitical, regulatory, or logistical) and assist with the development of contingency plans to ensure business continuity.
• Make timely, data-informed decisions to address disruptions, remove bottlenecks, and maintain operational agility.
  
  

• Track and establish KPIs as needed (e.g., performance against target service levels, cost to serve, network capacity…) to measure progress against strategic goals.
• Provide regular updates and insights to senior leadership, highlighting regional successes and emerging challenges.
  
  

• Supply-chain expertise: solid understanding and practical knowledge of global supply chains and distribution operations, typically developed over several years in logistics or distribution related roles.
• Strategic mindset: ability to define and execute regional distribution strategies that align with broader organizational objectives.
• Stakeholder management: able to engage and collaborate cross-functionally, navigate a matrixed environment, and bridge gaps through building strong partnerships and balancing diverse priorities and perspectives.
• Agility & decisiveness: problem-solving mindset, able to apply sound judgment and adapt rapidly to implement solutions and navigate approval processes under tight timelines.
• Team enablement: fosters team empowerment through trust-based delegation, coaching and mentoring, and creates opportunities for people development, visibility and recognition.
• Analytical & data-driven: strong critical-thinking skills; comfortable leveraging data to tackle complex issues, drive decisions, and identify continuous improvement opportunities.
• Financial acumen: experience with cost-to-serve modeling, supporting budget and strategic-planning exercises, and developing financial business cases.
• Risk & compliance orientation: awareness of complexities and challenges related to Asia-Pacific’s regulatory landscape and intrinsic logistical factors, with a proactive approach to operational risk-mitigation planning.
• Operational excellence outlook: experience applying a combination of continuous improvement principles, process optimization concepts, and project management fundamentals to enhance operational performance.
• Digital transformation: familiarity with relevant digital applications and tools (e.g., WMS, TMS, warehouse automation…), and experience supporting or leading new systems deployment a plus.
• Cross-cultural communication: excellent verbal and written communication, adept at adapting style to diverse cultures and audiences.
  
  

• Candidates would have around 10 – 15 years of supply-chain and distribution operations experience in a highly matrixed commercial organization. Global multi-national companies' experience is preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business Administration or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Excellent communication skills, fluency in both written and verbal English is a must. Fluency in any other Asia languages such as Mandarin, Japanese, Thai advantageous.
  
  

• This position must be based in the APO region, preferably at the IDEXX head office in Singapore. Location flexibility may be considered for the right candidate.
• The role is primarily office-based, involving regular use of computers and extended periods of desk work.
• Cross-regional collaboration will involve working across multiple time zones, including regular virtual meetings with global, US and EU-based teams.
• International travel may be required up to approximately 20% of the time.

• Seniority level Director

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Management and Manufacturing

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Job Summary

As the APO Operations Manager, you will help shape and drive the strategic direction of our distribution operations across the Asia-Pacific region, ensuring alignment with global operations and business objectives while respecting local nuances and specificities. You will be the regional champion for operational excellence, partnering closely with our APO operational leaders — who will report directly to you — to define and execute strategies that support commercial growth, streamline processes, and elevate our regional performance. This role demands a balance of high-level vision and hands-on leadership: you will collaborate with key stakeholders, both locally and globally, to secure resources and remove barriers, while also empowering your direct reports and their teams to innovate and excel.

In this role, you will act as the voice of APO operations, advocating for regional priorities and fostering stronger integration between APO and our global network. You will proactively identify and mitigate supply-chain risks unique to the region, establish clear metrics for success, and continuously drive and support harmonization and transformative initiatives that unlock new levels of efficiency and network resiliency. Your leadership will cultivate a culture of transparency, trust-based delegation, and cross-regional collaboration, ensuring that Asia-Pacific contributions are both visible and valued within the broader organization.

PRIMARY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Define & Align Strategy

• Contribute to elaborate a clear, robust APO distribution strategy that aligns with global operations goals, commercial priorities, and local complexities.

• Translate strategic objectives into actionable regional roadmaps and SMART goals.

Stakeholders Management & Advocacy

• Build and maintain strong relationships with local commercial leaders to anticipate market needs and adapt operational plans accordingly.

• Serve as the primary liaison between APO operations, local stakeholders, and global functions (e.g., Global Trade, Regulatory, Compliance, Finance, HR), championing the needs and perspectives of APO operations, securing necessary support, resources, and aligning priorities.

Team Leadership & Development

• Facilitate cross-regional knowledge sharing and best-practice exchange to harness synergies across the APO organization and drive innovation.

• Support, coach, mentor, and empower the regional operational leaders, fostering a culture of high performance, collaboration, and professional growth without micromanagement.

Drive Operational Excellence & Harmonization

• Lead process standardization across company-owned warehouses and 3PL partnerships to ensure consistency, efficiency, and compliance with global standards.

• Champion continuous improvement and process & systems transformation initiatives — leveraging analytics, technology and innovative solutions — to optimize operational effectiveness.

Risk Management & Agility

• Proactively help identify regional supply-chain risks (e.g., geopolitical, regulatory, or logistical) and assist with the development of contingency plans to ensure business continuity.

• Make timely , data-informed decisions to address disruptions, remove bottlenecks, and maintain operational agility.

Performance Monitoring & Reporting

• Track and establish KPIs as needed (e.g., performance against target service levels, cost to serve, network capacity …) to measure progress against strategic goals.

• Provide regular updates and insights to senior leadership, highlighting regional successes and emerging challenges.

COMPETENCIES:

• Supply-chain expertise : solid understanding and practical knowledge of global supply chains and distribution operations, typically developed over several years in logistics or distribution related roles.

• Strategic mindset: ability to define and execute regional distribution strategies that align with broader organizational objectives .

• Stakeholder management: able to engage and collaborate cross-functionally, navigate a matrixed environment, and bridge gaps through building strong partnerships and balancing diverse priorities and perspectives.

• Agility & decisiveness: problem-solving mindset, able to apply sound judgment and adapt rapidly to implement solutions and navigate approval processes under tight timelines.

• Team enablement: fosters team empowerment through trust-based delegation, coaching and mentoring, and creates opportunities for people development, visibility and recognition.

• Analytical & data-driven: strong critical-thinking skills; comfortable leveraging data to tackle complex issues, drive decisions, and identify continuous improvement opportunities.

• Financial acumen: experience with cost-to-serve modeling, supporting budget and strategic-planning exercises, and developing financial business cases.

• Risk & compliance orientation: awareness of complexities and challenges related to Asia-Pacific’s regulatory landscape and intrinsic logistical factors, with a proactive approach to operational risk-mitigation planning.

• Operational excellence outlook: experience applying a combination of continuous improvement principles, process optimization concepts, and project management fundamentals to enhance operational performance.

• Digital transformation: familiarity with relevant digital applications and tools (e.g., WMS, TMS, warehouse automation…), and experience supporting or leading new systems deployment a plus.

• Cross-cultural communication: excellent verbal and written communication, adept at adapting style to diverse cultures and audiences.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Candidate s would have around 10 – 15 years of supply-chain and distribution operations experience in a highly matrix ed commercial organization. Global multi-national companies' experience is preferred .

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain , Logistics, Business Administration or related field, or equivalent experience.

• Excellent communication skills, fluency in both written and verbal English is a must . Fluency in any other Asia languages such as Mandarin, Japanese, Thai advantageous .

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• This position must be based in the APO region, preferably at the IDEXX head office in Singapore. Location flexibility may be considered for the right candidate.

• The role is primarily office-based, involving regular use of computers and extended periods of desk work .

• Cross-regional collaboration will involve working across multiple time zones, including regular virtual meetings with global, US and EU-based teams.

• International travel may be required up to approximately 20% of the time.

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**Job Summary**As the APO Operations Manager, you will help shape and drive the strategic direction of our distribution operations across the Asia-Pacific region, ensuring alignment with global operations and business objectives while respecting local nuances and specificities. You will be the regional champion for operational excellence, partnering closely with our APO operational leaders — who will report directly to you — to define and execute strategies that support commercial growth, streamline processes, and elevate our regional performance. This role demands a balance of high-level vision and hands-on leadership: you will collaborate with key stakeholders, both locally and globally, to secure resources and remove barriers, while also empowering your direct reports and their teams to innovate and excel.In this role, you will act as the voice of APO operations, advocating for regional priorities and fostering stronger integration between APO and our global network. You will proactively identify and mitigate supply-chain risks unique to the region, establish clear metrics for success, and continuously drive and support harmonization and transformative initiatives that unlock new levels of efficiency and network resiliency. Your leadership will cultivate a culture of transparency, trust-based delegation, and cross-regional collaboration, ensuring that Asia-Pacific contributions are both visible and valued within the broader organization.**PRIMARY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES**Facilitate cross-regional knowledge sharing and best-practice exchange to harness synergies across the APO organization and drive innovation. **COMPETENCIES:** Supply-chain expertise: solid understanding and practical knowledge of global supply chains and distribution operations, typically developed over several years in logistics or distribution related roles.Strategic mindset: ability to define and execute regional distribution strategies that align with broader organizational objectives.Analytical & data-driven: strong critical-thinking skills; comfortable leveraging data to tackle complex issues, drive decisions, and identify continuous improvement opportunities.Financial acumen: experience with cost-to-serve modeling, supporting budget and strategic-planning exercises, and developing financial business cases. Operational excellence outlook: experience applying a combination of continuous improvement principles, process optimization concepts, and project management fundamentals to enhance operational performance. Digital transformation: familiarity with relevant digital applications and tools (e.g., WMS, TMS, warehouse automation.), and experience supporting or leading new systems deployment a plus. **QUALIFICATIONS:** Candidates would have around 10 – 15 years of supply-chain and distribution operations experience in a highly matrixed commercial organization. Global multi-national companies' experience is preferred.Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business Administration or related field, or equivalent experience.Excellent communication skills, fluency in both written and verbal English is a must. This position must be based in the APO region, preferably at the IDEXX head office in Singapore. Location flexibility may be considered for the right candidate. The role is primarily office-based, involving regular use of computers and extended periods of desk work.
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Job Summary

As the APO Operations Manager, you will help shape and drive the strategic direction of our distribution operations across the Asia-Pacific region, ensuring alignment with global operations and business objectives while respecting local nuances and specificities. You will be the regional champion for operational excellence, partnering closely with our APO operational leaders — who will report directly to you — to define and execute strategies that support commercial growth, streamline processes, and elevate our regional performance. This role demands a balance of high-level vision and hands-on leadership: you will collaborate with key stakeholders, both locally and globally, to secure resources and remove barriers, while also empowering your direct reports and their teams to innovate and excel.

In this role, you will act as the voice of APO operations, advocating for regional priorities and fostering stronger integration between APO and our global network. You will proactively identify and mitigate supply-chain risks unique to the region, establish clear metrics for success, and continuously drive and support harmonization and transformative initiatives that unlock new levels of efficiency and network resiliency. Your leadership will cultivate a culture of transparency, trust-based delegation, and cross-regional collaboration, ensuring that Asia-Pacific contributions are both visible and valued within the broader organization.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Define & Align Strategy: Contribute to a clear APO distribution strategy aligned with global operations goals, commercial priorities, and local complexities; translate strategic objectives into actionable regional roadmaps and SMART goals.
• Stakeholders Management & Advocacy: Build and maintain strong relationships with local commercial leaders to anticipate market needs and adapt operational plans; serve as the primary liaison between APO operations, local stakeholders, and global functions (e.g., Global Trade, Regulatory, Compliance, Finance, HR) and championing the needs and perspectives of APO operations, securing necessary support and resources, and aligning priorities.
• Team Leadership & Development: Facilitate cross-regional knowledge sharing and best-practice exchange to harness synergies across the APO organization and drive innovation; coach, mentor, and empower the regional operational leaders, fostering a culture of high performance, collaboration, and professional growth without micromanagement.
• Drive Operational Excellence & Harmonization: Lead process standardization across company-owned warehouses and 3PL partnerships to ensure consistency, efficiency, and compliance with global standards; champion continuous improvement and process & systems transformation initiatives—leveraging analytics, technology, and innovative solutions—to optimize operational effectiveness.
• Risk Management & Agility: Proactively identify regional supply-chain risks (e.g., geopolitical, regulatory, or logistical) and assist with contingency plans to ensure business continuity; make timely, data-informed decisions to address disruptions, remove bottlenecks, and maintain operational agility.
• Performance Monitoring & Reporting: Track KPIs and measure progress against strategic goals (e.g., service levels, cost to serve, network capacity); provide regular updates and insights to senior leadership, highlighting regional successes and emerging challenges.

Competencies

• Supply-chain expertise: solid understanding and practical knowledge of global supply chains and distribution operations, typically developed over several years in logistics or distribution-related roles.
• Strategic mindset: ability to define and execute regional distribution strategies that align with broader organizational objectives.
• Stakeholder management: able to engage and collaborate cross-functionally, navigate a matrixed environment, and bridge gaps through building strong partnerships and balancing diverse priorities and perspectives.
• Agility & decisiveness: problem-solving mindset, able to apply sound judgment and adapt rapidly to implement solutions and navigate approval processes under tight timelines.
• Team enablement: fosters team empowerment through trust-based delegation, coaching and mentoring, and creates opportunities for people development, visibility and recognition.
• Analytical & data-driven: strong critical-thinking skills; comfortable leveraging data to tackle complex issues, drive decisions, and identify continuous improvement opportunities.
• Financial acumen: experience with cost-to-serve modeling, supporting budget and strategic-planning exercises, and developing financial business cases.
• Risk & compliance orientation: awareness of complexities and challenges related to Asia-Pacific’s regulatory landscape and intrinsic logistical factors, with a proactive approach to operational risk-mitigation planning.
• Operational excellence outlook: experience applying a combination of continuous improvement principles, process optimization concepts, and project management fundamentals to enhance operational performance.
• Digital transformation: familiarity with relevant digital applications and tools (e.g., WMS, TMS, warehouse automation.), and experience supporting or leading new systems deployment a plus.
• Cross-cultural communication: excellent verbal and written communication, adept at adapting style to diverse cultures and audiences.

Qualifications

• Candidates would have around 10 – 15 years of supply-chain and distribution operations experience in a highly matrixed commercial organization; global multinational companies' experience is preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business Administration or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Excellent communication skills, fluency in both written and verbal English is a must. Fluency in other Asian languages such as Mandarin, Japanese, or Thai is advantageous.

Work Environment

• This position must be based in the APO region, preferably at the IDEXX head office in Singapore. Location flexibility may be considered for the right candidate.
• The role is primarily office-based, involving regular use of computers and extended periods of desk work.
• Cross-regional collaboration will involve working across multiple time zones, including regular virtual meetings with global, US and EU-based teams.
• International travel may be required up to approximately 20% of the time.

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APO Sr. Distribution Operations Manager

Job Summary

As the APO Operations Manager, you will help shape and drive the strategic direction of our distribution operations across the Asia-Pacific region, ensuring alignment with global operations and business objectives while respecting local nuances and specificities. You will be the regional champion for operational excellence, partnering closely with our APO operational leaders — who will report directly to you — to define and execute strategies that support commercial growth, streamline processes, and elevate our regional performance. This role demands a balance of high-level vision and hands-on leadership: you will collaborate with key stakeholders, both locally and globally, to secure resources and remove barriers, while also empowering your direct reports and their teams to innovate and excel.

In this role, you will act as the voice of APO operations, advocating for regional priorities and fostering stronger integration between APO and our global network. You will proactively identify and mitigate supply-chain risks unique to the region, establish clear metrics for success, and continuously drive and support harmonization and transformative initiatives that unlock new levels of efficiency and network resiliency. Your leadership will cultivate a culture of transparency, trust-based delegation, and cross-regional collaboration, ensuring that Asia-Pacific contributions are both visible and valued within the broader organization.

PRIMARY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Define & Align Strategy

• Contribute to elaborate a clear, robust APO distribution strategy that aligns with global operations goals, commercial priorities, and local complexities.

• Translate strategic objectives into actionable regional roadmaps and SMART goals.

Stakeholders Management & Advocacy

• Build and maintain strong relationships with local commercial leaders to anticipate market needs and adapt operational plans accordingly.

• Serve as the primary liaison between APO operations, local stakeholders, and global functions (e.g., Global Trade, Regulatory, Compliance, Finance, HR), championing the needs and perspectives of APO operations, securing necessary support, resources, and aligning priorities.

Team Leadership & Development

• Facilitate cross-regional knowledge sharing and best-practice exchange to harness synergies across the APO organization and drive innovation.

• Support, coach, mentor, and empower the regional operational leaders, fostering a culture of high performance, collaboration, and professional growth without micromanagement.

Drive Operational Excellence & Harmonization

• Lead process standardization across company-owned warehouses and 3PL partnerships to ensure consistency, efficiency, and compliance with global standards.

• Champion continuous improvement and process & systems transformation initiatives — leveraging analytics, technology and innovative solutions — to optimize operational effectiveness.

Risk Management & Agility

• Proactively help identify regional supply-chain risks (e.g., geopolitical, regulatory, or logistical) and assist with the development of contingency plans to ensure business continuity.

• Make timely , data-informed decisions to address disruptions, remove bottlenecks, and maintain operational agility.

Performance Monitoring & Reporting

• Track and establish KPIs as needed (e.g., performance against target service levels, cost to serve, network capacity .) to measure progress against strategic goals.

• Provide regular updates and insights to senior leadership, highlighting regional successes and emerging challenges.

COMPETENCIES:

• Supply-chain expertise : solid understanding and practical knowledge of global supply chains and distribution operations, typically developed over several years in logistics or distribution related roles.

• Strategic mindset: ability to define and execute regional distribution strategies that align with broader organizational objectives .

• Stakeholder management: able to engage and collaborate cross-functionally, navigate a matrixed environment, and bridge gaps through building strong partnerships and balancing diverse priorities and perspectives.

• Agility & decisiveness: problem-solving mindset, able to apply sound judgment and adapt rapidly to implement solutions and navigate approval processes under tight timelines.

• Team enablement: fosters team empowerment through trust-based delegation, coaching and mentoring, and creates opportunities for people development, visibility and recognition.

• Analytical & data-driven: strong critical-thinking skills; comfortable leveraging data to tackle complex issues, drive decisions, and identify continuous improvement opportunities.

• Financial acumen: experience with cost-to-serve modeling, supporting budget and strategic-planning exercises, and developing financial business cases.

• Risk & compliance orientation: awareness of complexities and challenges related to Asia-Pacific’s regulatory landscape and intrinsic logistical factors, with a proactive approach to operational risk-mitigation planning.

• Operational excellence outlook: experience applying a combination of continuous improvement principles, process optimization concepts, and project management fundamentals to enhance operational performance.

• Digital transformation: familiarity with relevant digital applications and tools (e.g., WMS, TMS, warehouse automation.), and experience supporting or leading new systems deployment a plus.

• Cross-cultural communication: excellent verbal and written communication, adept at adapting style to diverse cultures and audiences.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Candidate s would have around 10 – 15 years of supply-chain and distribution operations experience in a highly matrix ed commercial organization. Global multi-national companies' experience is preferred .

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain , Logistics, Business Administration or related field, or equivalent experience.

• Excellent communication skills, fluency in both written and verbal English is a must . Fluency in any other Asia languages such as Mandarin, Japanese, Thai advantageous .

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• This position must be based in the APO region, preferably at the IDEXX head office in Singapore. Location flexibility may be considered for the right candidate.

• The role is primarily office-based, involving regular use of computers and extended periods of desk work .

• Cross-regional collaboration will involve working across multiple time zones, including regular virtual meetings with global, US and EU-based teams.

• International travel may be required up to approximately 20% of the time.

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Job Summary
As the APO Operations Manager, you will help shape and drive the strategic direction of our distribution operations across the Asia-Pacific region, ensuring alignment with global operations and business objectives while respecting local nuances and specificities. You will be the regional champion for operational excellence, partnering closely with our APO operational leaders — who will report directly to you — to define and execute strategies that support commercial growth, streamline processes, and elevate our regional performance. This role demands a balance of high-level vision and hands-on leadership: you will collaborate with key stakeholders, both locally and globally, to secure resources and remove barriers, while also empowering your direct reports and their teams to innovate and excel.

Job Summary
As the APO Operations Manager, you will help shape and drive the strategic direction of our distribution operations across the Asia-Pacific region, ensuring alignment with global operations and business objectives while respecting local nuances and specificities. You will be the regional champion for operational excellence, partnering closely with our APO operational leaders — who will report directly to you — to define and execute strategies that support commercial growth, streamline processes, and elevate our regional performance. This role demands a balance of high-level vision and hands-on leadership: you will collaborate with key stakeholders, both locally and globally, to secure resources and remove barriers, while also empowering your direct reports and their teams to innovate and excel.
In this role, you will act as the voice of APO operations, advocating for regional priorities and fostering stronger integration between APO and our global network. You will proactively identify and mitigate supply-chain risks unique to the region, establish clear metrics for success, and continuously drive and support harmonization and transformative initiatives that unlock new levels of efficiency and network resiliency. Your leadership will cultivate a culture of transparency, trust-based delegation, and cross-regional collaboration, ensuring that Asia-Pacific contributions are both visible and valued within the broader organization.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
Define & Align Strategy

• Contribute to elaborate a clear, robust APO distribution strategy that aligns with global operations goals, commercial priorities, and local complexities.
• Translate strategic objectives into actionable regional roadmaps and SMART goals.
  

• Build and maintain strong relationships with local commercial leaders to anticipate market needs and adapt operational plans accordingly.
• Serve as the primary liaison between APO operations, local stakeholders, and global functions (e.g., Global Trade, Regulatory, Compliance, Finance, HR), championing the needs and perspectives of APO operations, securing necessary support, resources, and aligning priorities.
  

• Facilitate cross-regional knowledge sharing and best-practice exchange to harness synergies across the APO organization and drive innovation.
• Support, coach, mentor, and empower the regional operational leaders, fostering a culture of high performance, collaboration, and professional growth without micromanagement.
  

• Lead process standardization across company-owned warehouses and 3PL partnerships to ensure consistency, efficiency, and compliance with global standards.
• Champion continuous improvement and process & systems transformation initiatives — leveraging analytics, technology and innovative solutions — to optimize operational effectiveness.
  

• Proactively help identify regional supply-chain risks (e.g., geopolitical, regulatory, or logistical) and assist with the development of contingency plans to ensure business continuity.
• Make timely, data-informed decisions to address disruptions, remove bottlenecks, and maintain operational agility.
  

• Track and establish KPIs as needed (e.g., performance against target service levels, cost to serve, network capacity.) to measure progress against strategic goals.
• Provide regular updates and insights to senior leadership, highlighting regional successes and emerging challenges.
  

• Supply-chain expertise: solid understanding and practical knowledge of global supply chains and distribution operations, typically developed over several years in logistics or distribution related roles.
• Strategic mindset: ability to define and execute regional distribution strategies that align with broader organizational objectives.
• Stakeholder management: able to engage and collaborate cross-functionally, navigate a matrixed environment, and bridge gaps through building strong partnerships and balancing diverse priorities and perspectives.
• Agility & decisiveness: problem-solving mindset, able to apply sound judgment and adapt rapidly to implement solutions and navigate approval processes under tight timelines.
• Team enablement: fosters team empowerment through trust-based delegation, coaching and mentoring, and creates opportunities for people development, visibility and recognition.
• Analytical & data-driven: strong critical-thinking skills; comfortable leveraging data to tackle complex issues, drive decisions, and identify continuous improvement opportunities.
• Financial acumen: experience with cost-to-serve modeling, supporting budget and strategic-planning exercises, and developing financial business cases.
• Risk & compliance orientation: awareness of complexities and challenges related to Asia-Pacific’s regulatory landscape and intrinsic logistical factors, with a proactive approach to operational risk-mitigation planning.
• Operational excellence outlook: experience applying a combination of continuous improvement principles, process optimization concepts, and project management fundamentals to enhance operational performance.
• Digital transformation: familiarity with relevant digital applications and tools (e.g., WMS, TMS, warehouse automation.), and experience supporting or leading new systems deployment a plus.
• Cross-cultural communication: excellent verbal and written communication, adept at adapting style to diverse cultures and audiences.
  

• Candidates would have around 10 – 15 years of supply-chain and distribution operations experience in a highly matrixed commercial organization. Global multi-national companies' experience is preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business Administration or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Excellent communication skills, fluency in both written and verbal English is a must. Fluency in any other Asia languages such as Mandarin, Japanese, Thai advantageous.
  

• This position must be based in the APO region, preferably at the IDEXX head office in Singapore. Location flexibility may be considered for the right candidate.
• The role is primarily office-based, involving regular use of computers and extended periods of desk work.
• Cross-regional collaboration will involve working across multiple time zones, including regular virtual meetings with global, US and EU-based teams.
• International travel may be required up to approximately 20% of the time.

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Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Your New Role

Reporting to the Executive Director, Operations Asia Pacific, and the Director, Asia Theatrical Distribution, we are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive individual to support distribution operations across Asia. Based in Singapore, this role will collaborate closely with regional and global stakeholders to ensure the seamless execution of theatrical releases for Warner Bros. films in Asia

Your Role Accountabilities

Manage licensee markets: Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar

Oversee release schedule updates and box office reporting for all APAC territories

Distribution & Operations

Order screeners, DCPs, and trailers for licensee markets

Review anti-piracy security measures for pre-release screenings

Manage local title translations

Prepare reports for data analysis

Finance & Administration Support (Licensee Markets)

Maintain, distribute, and collate forecasting templates

Prepare draft forecast presentations for senior management

Monitor title-by-title licensee financial reporting

Maintain pan-Asian territory information updates and distribution lists

Qualifications & Experience

Proficiency in MS Office Suite; database experience preferred

Strong English communication skills (additional languages a plus)

Strong mathematical, analytical, and organizational skills

Finance background a plus

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Your New Role

Reporting to the Executive Director, Operations Asia Pacific, and the Director, Asia Theatrical Distribution, we are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive individual to support distribution operations across Asia. Based in Singapore, this role will collaborate closely with regional and global stakeholders to ensure the seamless execution of theatrical releases for Warner Bros. films in Asia

Your Role Accountabilities

• Manage licensee markets: Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar

• Oversee release schedule updates and box office reporting for all APAC territories

Distribution & Operations

• Order screeners, DCPs, and trailers for licensee markets

• Maintain licensee/licensor distribution agreements database

• Review anti-piracy security measures for pre-release screenings

• Manage local title translations

• Prepare reports for data analysis

• Handle ad-hoc administrative duties

Finance & Administration Support (Licensee Markets)

• Maintain, distribute, and collate forecasting templates

• Prepare draft forecast presentations for senior management

• Monitor title-by-title licensee financial reporting

• Maintain pan-Asian territory information updates and distribution lists

Qualifications & Experience

• Proficiency in MS Office Suite; database experience preferred

• Strong English communication skills (additional languages a plus)

• Strong mathematical, analytical, and organizational skills

• Finance background a plus

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

If you’re a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Management and Manufacturing
• Industries Entertainment Providers

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