We are seeking a Global Supply Chain Director to lead our supply chain efforts and drive strategic initiatives to optimize efficiency. As a key member of our leadership team, you will be responsible for developing and executing short and long-term strategies to improve supply chain efficiency, managing operations, and ensuring customer needs are met. If you have a passion for supply chain management and leadership, we encourage you to apply.
Requirements
- Develop and execute short and long-term strategies to optimize supply chain efficiency.
- Create multi-year roadmap of strategic initiatives, continuous improvement, and supplier development programs.
- Manage operations, cost drivers, changing supply base, and market innovation to capture lower costs and/or high value alternatives to meet stakeholder needs.
- Establish relationships with functional and regional leaders to ensure operational and sourcing strategies align with our business goals and objectives.
- Collaborate with Operations, Engineering and Quality teams to ensure customer needs are met and develop and maintain quarterly supplier scorecard system.
- Create sustainable and consistent processes for strategic sourcing initiatives, Operational improvements, RFQ/P, and commodity management.
- Regularly adapt sourcing strategies in relation to market trends and business requirements to enhance effectiveness.
- Develop and own strategic matrix of suppliers to identify risks, gaps and opportunities in supply chain, including the development of new suppliers, dual/multi-source strategy, management of sole sourced suppliers when required, and exit strategies for suppliers that don’t meet supplier standards.
- Support operations and product development to ensure contingencies and buy/make/partners are appropriately evaluated and identified.
- Assess the supply market, our current and future state to develop sourcing strategies and risk mitigation; includes monitoring tariffs to proactively manage impact on business.
- Support and influence New Technology Development programs in a cross functional setting with product management, engineering, manufacturing, and quality to identify emerging technologies and potential suppliers.
- Own results for key performance metrics and the annual budget.
- Acquire a deep understanding of the supply markets that provide material, products, or services.
- Identify and aggregate technical, commercial, risk, opportunity, and demand requirement for contract negotiation. Lead negotiation and execution of key agreements.
- Lead the development and execute the Supplier Management strategy and including Supplier Relationship Management, Performance Management, Issue Resolution, and the identification/ onboarding of new suppliers. Utilize formal processes for supplier selection, qualification, contracting and management.
- Oversee the movement of goods from production facilities to distribution centers and ultimately to end-users.
- Work closely with long term suppliers to manage core supply base for productivity/cost down initiatives through the use of VA/VE tools.
- Actively optimize the company’s production capabilities by driving a continuous improvement process to measure current performance, identify opportunities, develop plans and effect change to improve results
- Manage footprint rationalization program
- Champion and drive total cost of ownership (TCO) reductions.
- Attract, retain, motivate and develop high performing, diverse teams.
- Drive positive employee engagement.
- Provide effective and appropriate communication to all employees to ensure timely and consistent information; this includes facilitating regular All Employee and skip level meetings.
- Provide monthly report to the HQ and regional leadership team highlighting progress against initiatives, employee feedback and operations.
- Set and communicate standards of performance and appraise employee performance.
- Drive completion of employee training initiatives.
- Ensure that changes to policies, procedures and standards are communicated and implemented accordingly, including site safety procedures.
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
- Health Insurance
- Vacation Pay
- Sick Pay
- Paid Holidays
- On-site Gym and Locker Rooms
- Free Parking
