JOB SUMMARY
 

Oversee, plan, monitor and manage teams supporting the Supply Chain. Responsible for the creating sourcing strategies to support plant operations; including spend analysis, gathering business requirements, sourcing strategy execution/implementation and continuous improvement.  

CORE JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide direction to teams in Supply Chain. Analyze, resolve or escalate inventory issues.  Ensure daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly tasks of Supply Chain teams meet standards.
• Resolve daily Supply Chain issues. Direct team regarding issue resolution and continuous improvement.
• Communicate to senior management Supply Chain and service issues with short and long term recommendations on resolution.
• Ensure inventory plans and execution of plans are consistent with Supply Chain goals.
• Provide support to internal manufacturing operations.
• Prepare and present forward-looking, future projections of inventory, volume, service, planning, capacity, and space considerations. Assure that the system parameters are correct. Manage communication between Teams.
• Management responsibilities include: 
  • Typically oversees professional employees/teams OR typically manages non-professional employees through Supervisors in manufacturing, distribution or office environments.
  • Day-to-day operations of a group of employees.
  • May have limited budgetary responsibility and usually contributes to budgetary impact;
  • Interpret and execute policies for departments/projects and develops. 
  • Recommend and implement new policies or modifications to existing policies.
  • Provide general guidelines and parameters for staff functioning. 
  • Hiring staff, recommending pay increases, performing performance reviews, training and development of staff, estimating personnel needs, assigning work, meeting completion dates, interpreting and ensuring consistent application of organizational policies. 
    

 Education

• Bachelor’s degree or 10 years of equivalent experience
   
  

• At least 5 years manufacturing, distribution or purchasing experience.

• Experience demonstrating knowledge level of MRP, buying, demand management and forecasting.

• Position requires the ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages and volume.

• Position requires the ability to apply concepts of algebra and business statistics.

• Advanced level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using AVERAGE function, merging and centering cells, printing centered page and/or creating a pivot table).

• Experience in import logistics, inventory planning and transportation.

• Experience managing people, including hiring, developing, motivating and directing people as they work.

• Experience with SAP.
• Bachelor's Degree