Senior Manager Supply Chain

Manages materials planning, requisitioning, materials control, and warehouse functions and employees.  Typically manages in multiple or very large locations.

Essential Duties:

Safety

• Champion service quality, health, safety, environmental policies.

Planning

• Develop Material Plans to support business objectives including customer service, on-time delivery, inventory turns, cost, etc. for respective area.
• Work with Corporate Supply Chain to identify and establish long-term strategic relationships with critical suppliers.

Source to Pay

• Ensure lowest total cost by compliance with preferred supplier agreements.
• Establish regional price agreements and contracts.
• Sourcing and procurement to minimize equipment downtime.
• Regularly review and action open supply chain resolution issues to minimize delays in work order closures or invoice payments.

Inventory, Warehouse and Logistics Management

• Optimize inventory holdings to reduce slow moving inventory and minimize or reduce stock outs.
• Regularly execute plans for slow-moving inventory disposal/investment recovery.
• Develop, implement and maintain an accurate physical inventory and cycle count program.  Ensure material control throughout multiple manned and unmanned facilities.
• Optimize routes to improve delivery timing and minimize drive time, fuel and wear and tear on company vehicles.

Process Improvement

• Work with Corporate Supply Chain to implement operational standards and processes and drive continuous improvement.
• Independently identify and work with Corporate Supply Chain to develop new processes to improve efficiency across the Supply Chain organization.

General Management

• Work with business to understand overall business plan and priorities. 
• Review and analyze supply chain activity reports and metrics and determine/execute appropriate mitigation actions with a sense of urgency.
• Manage supply chain performance to established KPI's in respective area and drive targeted improvement plans.
• Work with other departments to communicate supplier performance issues and develop improvement plans.
• Participate in periodic business unit and corporate supply chain management reviews of supply chain performance and improvements.
• Manage annual budget.
• Develop, implement, manage and communicate work standards and performance metrics for assigned team.
• Responsible for employee hiring, performance management and development. 
• On board new employees and assess competency and training needs of team members.  Develop training plans for all team members and ensure that training is provided. 
• Coordinate schedule and set priorities to ensure task completion and minimize overtime.
• Include business partner feedback in the objectives and direction setting for the function.  Effectively communicate progress against objectives with key stakeholders.
• Manage all resources (personnel, equipment, materials, facilities, funds and reputation) for assigned Business Units. 

 

Non-Essential Duties:  Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills and Abilities: 

• Perform all essential duties.
• Ability to maintain effective controls on supply chain related processes
• Motivate team to give 100% effort all of the time 
• Exhibit strong customer service and maintain good customer relationships.
• Demonstrate strong analytical abilities and problem solving skills.
• Demonstrate interpersonal, negotiation, coaching and leadership skills to manage diverse team
• Demonstrate strong organizational, labor planning and scheduling, and process / change management skills.
• Demonstrate proficiency with the Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, etc.), ERP (Oracle preferred) and PC skills.
• Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to train and mentor other supply chain team members 
• Ability to identify areas for improvement and d