Supply Chain Manager

At ProMach, we're not just about innovative packaging machinery, we're about igniting potential. You’ll have opportunities to take your career in the direction you desire. You can be Strategic. Persuasive. Influential. Meticulous. A technical enthusiast. A futurist.  We offer rewarding, challenging opportunities throughout the world, across multiple packaging segments. If you are energized by providing best-in-class customer experiences and strive for advanced technical skills, we want to talk to you.

We are seeking an accomplished procurement professional to spearhead the development and implementation of robust sourcing strategies across multiple ProMach divisions. In this pivotal role, you will collaborate with key divisions and strategic sourcing partners to conceptualize and execute effective category sourcing strategies. Your responsibilities will extend to working closely with cross-functional teams, contributing to the formulation of requirements, identifying suppliers, and leading negotiations to establish crucial master supply agreements and key performance indicator criteria. Ensuring compliance with preferred suppliers and master supply agreements across ProMach divisions will be a core focus. Additionally, you will be entrusted with cultivating and managing strategic relationships with suppliers to ensure their performance consistently meets or exceeds ProMach's expectations.

Strategy and Implementation:

• Responsible for maintaining systems & processes to obtain and manage material cost and develop process improvement opportunities to achieve annual budget.
• Responsible for maintaining the ProMach supply chain systems & processes and partnership with ProMach’s purchasing steering council.
• Develop and maintain materials management scorecard across primary packaging divisions to identify opportunity areas around:
• Plan, develop and implement best practices for inventory control and job order procedures to optimize the meeting of production and internal/external customer demand.
• Maintain inventory accuracy through an effective cycle count and BOM maintenance processes.
• Educate, coach, and provide training and/or resources to maintain the required level of department expertise for business systems and processes such as ERP automation and utilization, inventory level and location optimization, and load versus capacity management.
• Identifies new technology with preferred suppliers and works with internal subject-matter experts’ technology “roadmaps.”
• Lead the development of category sourcing strategies including supply market analysis, cost modelling and benchmarking.
• Work with divisions to identify savings opportunities and if applicable spread that opportunity across all ProMach divisions.
• Ad hoc projects as assigned.

Sourcing and Supplier Management:

• Expansion and increasing adherence to the ProMach preferred supplier list (PSL). 
• Lead supplier selection and negotiation process, execute sourcing activities.
• Lead the contract review process, working closely with divisional material managers to ensure proper review and capture of business requirements into ProMach’s Master Supply Agreement (MSA).
• Ensure quality of all contracts required for compliant and reliable business operations.
• Support global, local and regional supplier management activities.
• Develop consistent make vs. buy supplier selection activities (where relevant).

Build and maintain strong working relationships with key business stakeholders:

• Develop and lead Materials connection across Primary to enhance collaboration and best practices across Divisions.
• Work with the ProMach Business Process (PMBP) group and other business units to develop and drive standards across ProMach:
• Material Assessments 
• Value Stream Mapping (Operations Excellence)
• Change Management
• Manage and monitor strategy development and divisional implementation, working in partnership with the teams across applicable ProMach divisions.
• Create ways to reduce divisional effort to increase adoption of best practices and automation.
• Work with divisions to identify areas for inventory reduction strategies and help them implement.

What’s in it for you? 

There's no monopoly on good ideas or limits to how far you can advance with our team. We offer an open, communicative environment that fosters individual initiative. We pride ourselves in being a company where people choose to build a career. 

In addition to growth opportunities, as a ProMach employee, you receive more than just a paycheck. Total compensation includes your salary, comprehensi