Supply Chain Manager

Shearer's is a leading contract manufacturer and private label supplier in the snack industry in North America. Headquartered in Massillon, Ohio, Shearer's has 17 state-of-the-art, geographically diverse manufacturing facilities in Ohio, Texas, Arkansas, Arizona, Minnesota, Pennsylvania,  Virginia, Iowa, Ontario and Alberta, Canada, including one of the industry's first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design platinum LEED certified facilities in Massillon, Ohio. The Company is known for producing the highest quality snacks in assorted flavors and sizes, including kettle cooked potato chips, traditional potato chips, tortilla chips, cheese curls and other extruded snacks, and corn chips, as well as cookies, crackers, and wafers.

 

Supply Chain Manager

Location: Multisite in Fort Worth, TX

 

Your seat at the table

• Materials management to Finished Good (FG) shipment of end-to-end supply chain.
• Management of all aspects of Materials Management at the site including Plant Production. Scheduling, Material Planning, Bulk Purchasing, Inventory Control, Inbound Receiving, Outbound Shipments (including FG Exports), Intercompany Shipments and In-house Material Control including material usage variance evaluation.
• Responsible for OTIF (on time, in full) of Finished Goods and the achievement of KPI’s, including Customer. Service Levels, Stock Turn, Working Capital, Labor Costs, KPI’s, and other operational/financial targets as established annually.
• Responsible for the physical warehouse and truck yard. This includes the management of the employees and equipment.

 Departmental

• Responsible for the development and achievement of budgets on an annual basis through the development and implementation of a sound budget and managing variances effectively without compromising customer needs.
• Take company standards and best practices and ensure execution through their team and development metrics as needed to measure performance. 
• Manage performance and development of direct reports by establishing clear and measurable objectives that stretch the individuals.
• Development of Colleagues, to ensure succession plans are achieved, behaviors are in line with corporate values and that leadership imperatives are developed.
• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition to recruit the highest caliber talent and actively participate in creating a workplace that sustains employee morale, commitment, and retention.  
• Ensures that safety is a priority of all departmental personal and processes and is in compliance with all employee and food safety regulations.

Planning and Procurement  

• Owns the product flow into the facility including all vendor and corporate functional communication and coordination.
• Assist with new products/projects communication and coordination for site.
• Responsible for Bulk ordering where applicable and material release & invoice approval.
• Manage inventory levels to achieve case fill rate goals at the lowest Working Capital.
• Accountable for SC KPIs DOH inventory levels of raw materials to meet financial targets.
• Collaborate with centralized planning and plant teams (quality/sanitation, maintenance, production) to meet food safety, service, equipment reliability and labor cost metrics. through ensuring optimized and efficient daily and weekly schedules.

 

Inventory Control Quality Assurance (ICQA) 

• Responsible for maintaining inventory accuracy, rotation and movement procedures within the entire site.
• Ensures inventory quality/accuracy programs are in place and executed per Shearer’s requirements.

Inbound/Outbound Logistics

• Execute network standard process, including full utilization of a warehouse management system to reduce waste and develop consistent work processes and standard work for all key functions of the operation to deliver "Best in Class" on time and in full delivery performance for our customers.  
• Ensure products, parts or supplies are shipped, distributed, or received in a safe and efficient manner.
• Develop labor planning to execute load schedule safely and efficiently.
• Lead warehouse personnel on proper storage and distribution activities.
• Prepare and review distribution documents.
• Oversee the loading, unloading, movement or storage items according to delivery or routing documents.

 

What you bring to the table

• Bachelor's degree preferred, preferably in Supply Chain, Operations or related field.
• At least 5 years’ experience