Director, Global Supply Chain, Life Science Technologies

Requisition Number: 66409

 

Corning is vital to progress – in the industries we help shape and in the world we share.

 

We invent life-changing technologies using materials science. Our scientific and manufacturing expertise, boundless curiosity, and commitment to purposeful invention place us at the center of the way the world interacts, works, learns, and lives.

 

Our sustained investment in research, development, and invention means we’re always ready to solve the toughest challenges alongside our customers. 

As a leading developer, manufacturer, and global supplier of scientific laboratory products for 100 years, Corning’s Life Sciences segment collaborates with researchers seeking new approaches to increase efficiencies, reduce costs and compress timelines in the drug discovery process. Using unique expertise in the fields of materials science, surface science, optics, biochemistry and biology, the segment provides innovative solutions that improve productivity and enable breakthrough discoveries.

 

Role Purpose:

 

Provides Corning Life Sciences with sustainable competitive advantage in Global Operations and Supply Chain Management.  Defines and executes the division’s supply chain roadmap, ensuring optimization of all activities and support required for the delivery of products and services to customers and other business partners. Aligns supply chain capabilities to the current and future needs of the business and manufacturing. Primary areas include Supply Chain planning (service, inventory, supply, demand, capacity, and network), materials management, scheduling, procurement, and logistics operations (including transportation, warehousing, and distribution).

 

Key Responsibilities:

 

• Works collaboratively with global operations, business teams and other resources to: 
  • Define and communicate the division’s business strategy and align roles and responsibilities to deliver. 
  • Alignment to one demand/supply plan for internal manufacturing and external sourcing operations.
  • Manage and communicate global capacity models for capacity planning. 
  • Aggregate global demand information and facilitate supply plans to internal and external operations. 
  • Ensure alignment to the corporate Global Supply Management (GSM) function.
  • Develop and execute supply chain process node development between the corporation and division.
• Defines, manages, and executes robust processes and systems required to enable business growth and profitability.
• Partner with Business Teams & Commercial to improve forecast accuracy and bias. 
• Drives lean culture to ensure optimal end-to-end fulfillment; optimizes end-to-end flow of material, information, and cash.
• Evaluates and recommends how to optimize the global capacity to meet global customer needs, program requirements, and delivery goals. 
• Champions and advocates the SIOP / IBP and inventory management, driving one plan for the division.
• Maximizes scalability and adaptability to change according to market and business needs.   
• Identifies, standardizes, and deploys functional best practices across the globe, e.g., systems integration and optimization.
• Supports talent development and movement across divisions. 
• Optimizes a global supply chain/logistics network across all divisional distribution sites. Use of network optimization tools and processes.
• Utilizes standardized approach to “where to make vs. where to buy��� decisions
• Ensures the focus on Data Integrity by managing and governing master data.