Director of Strategic Sourcing & Supply Chain

Description

"Develop the global supply chain vision and build strategic sourcing processes for products that truly enhance the quality of people's lives."

United Safety and Survivability Corporation is committed to delivering the most innovative and reliable safety and survivability solutions our customers can trust to protect life and property. As the global leader in our industry, we push boundaries by utilizing innovation to highly engineer and produce the next generation of safety and survivability technologies.

At United Safety we are solving our industry's most important problems with talented individuals who share our passion to change the world. Our culture is fast-paced, energetic and innovative. We work to build an inclusive environment in which everyone, regardless of gender, race, religion, age, or background, can do their best work. We are fully committed to continuous growth and advancement; we will reinvest profits and resources into our employees, our processes and product innovation.

Job Title:   Director of Strategic Sourcing & Supply Chain

Department:  Supply Chain 

Classification: Exempt

Summary: As the Director of Strategic Sourcing & Supply Chain, you will provide the vision and develop, deploy and lead the corporate strategic sourcing efforts across all business units. You will be responsible for and will lead and work with the team for all strategic and tactical sourcing, new product materials introduction.

You will ensure that the sourcing team is functioning at a high-performance level. To do this you will need to provide the team with the tools (such as refining the sourcing tools, cost analysis, and sourcing dashboards system) and leadership required for them to succeed. You will ensure that the procurement team is focused on providing their customer – the Manufacturing/Engineering team – with the right components to build lifesaving products at the right time.

As the Director, you will advance best in class, standardized and common processes and procedures for each of the functions, ensure functional alignment globally and drive continuous improvement. In this role, you will develop, expand, build and maintain a global vendor network to support an optimized operation.

Responsibilities: As the Director of Strategic Sourcing & Supply Chain, you will:

Supplier Network:

• Build, develop and expand a global supply chain.
• Identify and implement supply chain optimization initiatives.
• Manage domestic and international vendor relationships. 
• Support operations in order to meet delivery targets. 
• Implement supply chain process.
• Measure and implement methods to increase vendor quality including;

1. On Time Delivery
2. Pricing
3. Quality

Inventory Management and Analysis

• Manage inventory in the supply chain balancing cash flow, and cost and service objectives utilizing;

1. Support teams objectives of Increasing inventory turns
2. Unit cost reductions

• Develop short-term and long-range capacity planning and analysis;

1. Address requirements such as: capital investment, new tool or machine requirements and ROI on recommended investments.

• Support the Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning (SIOP) processes to drive business results cross-functionally.

Supply Chain Cost Reduction

• Provide total cost management;

1. Conduct spend analysis reviews and perform cost-to-serve analysis 

• Continuously review and implement processes, procedures and strategies on pricing.
• Forecast price and market trends to identify changes of balance in buyer-supplier power.
• Develop year-over-year cost reductions and countermeasures as appropriate. 
• Lead the “Make/Buy” decision making process for new and existing products in collaboration with other departments, such as Engineering, Operations and Finance.
• Work cross-functionally to monitor customer demand patterns.

On Time Delivery of Materials to Operations

• Support efforts to eliminate parts shortages.
• Identify and actively prevent imbalances in production planning and scheduling.
• Ensure delivery in full and on time of all cost saving targets.
• Work with product development teams to ensure supplies are provided in time to achieve KPI’s. 

Leadership and Management

• Build, grow and manage the procurement and strategic sourcing groups;

1. Identify training and development need