Materials - Supply Chain Manager

Materials - Supply Chain Manager

JOB SUMMARY:
The Supply Chain Manager coordinates, organizes, and oversees all activities involved in the identification, acquisition, production, and distribution of the company’s goods.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborates with other departments and stakeholders to identify and maintain resources needed to establish and provide an effective supply chain.
• Establishes performance metrics for measurement, comparison, or evaluation of factors affecting the supply chain.
• Develops and maintains detailed inventories of materials and supplies located in the company, at sites, and in the factory.   
• Maintains required quantity of supplies and materials to optimize production.
• Analyzes current inventories and procedures; suggests improvements to increase efficiency of supply chain and profitability for the company.
• Develops policies to increase efficiency throughout the supply chain while ensuring quality and safety; implements subsequent changes to processes.
• Identifies optimal shipment and transportation routes with attention to consolidation of warehousing and distribution.
• Assesses the need for material-handling equipment and staffing; makes recommendations to ensure efficient loading, unloading, movement, and storage of materials.
• Negotiates prices for raw material and delivery with suppliers, vendors, and/or shipping companies.
• Participates as an advisory member of the product development team, providing information and guidance on availability and cost of supplies and materials. 

• Acts as part of the team coordinating engineering changes, product line extension, or new product launches to ensure timely and orderly material and production flow transitions.
• Monitors the performance of suppliers, assessing their ability to meet quality and delivery requirements; identifies and qualifies new suppliers in collaboration with other departments
• Collaborates with other appropriate management staff to prepare and implement budget.
• Reviews, analyzes, and evaluates business procedures.
• Implements policies and procedures that will improve day-to-day operations.   
• Ensures work environments are adequate and safe. 
• Plans, directs, controls, implements, evaluates, monitors, area spending aligned with budget.
• Projects a positive image of the department and facility to employees, customers, industry, and community.
• Manage customer’s forums, visits and new business requisites.
• Ensures a healthy and safe working environment, and compliance with federal and state regulations, through collaboration with environmental, health, and safety staff.
• Identifies and shares training opportunities for team to build and improve skills.
• Organizes site team structure for optimal, efficient operations.
• Works with finance to on assigned area budget projections and ensure alignment to EBITDA.

• Delivers site progress reports (KPIS) to management team members as requested.
• Performs other related duties as assigned

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or similar field required; experience or Master's degree in Business Administration is highly desired.
• At least 10 years of experience in supervisory positions that combine technical, managerial and financial expertise required.
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills with a proven ability to create and maintain positive working relationships with vendors, suppliers, shippers, and customers.
• Superior leadership and management skills with a proven ability to coordinate employees, teams, and departments with different skills and backgrounds.
• Thorough understanding of applicable regulations as they pertain to plant operation.
• Ability to understand and operate the systems and equipment used at the facility.
• Ability to perform and analyze various system checks.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and to delegate them when appropriate.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITY:

Leads technical and engineers & cross-functional leaders.  Direct or indirect people leadership experience and managing projects preferred.

OTHER:

The role is required to be 100% onsite with occasional travel as deemed necessary.