Position Summary:
As a key leadership role, on the executive team, this role is instrumental in overseeing the strategic direction of sourcing, procurement, and supply chain management to support manufacturing operations for a multi-national company, with over 100 years reputation for robust quality and durability. Responsible for directing procurement, planning and distribution activities of all raw materials used in manufacturing environment.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute a comprehensive procurement and supply chain ‘best-in-class’ strategy that aligns with the company’s objective and growth trajectory relating to procurement, distribution, and management of raw materials based on present and future material availability.
- Oversee the analysis of procurement data and cost structures to identify opportunities to cost optimization and savings, helping to drive KPI improvement reporting.
- Responsible for improving Inventory Control accuracy by reducing adjustments to the perpetual inventory in a quantifiable manner.
- Collaborate with finance teams to maintain accurate cost analysis, forecasting, and reporting.
- Implementation of an operational improvement plan managing material storage in a method that accounts for purchased parts and inventory storage.
- Implement a strategic plan to support working capital and inventory turnover targets at best-in class levels.
- Oversee Purchasing functions; implement improvement plans to achieve annualized cost reduction targets in line with efforts to establish continued partnerships with international vendors. Negotiate complex supplier agreements and contracts to secure favorable terms, pricing, and delivery.
- Material Planning with respect to time that aligns setting and maintaining min/max levels, reorder points, safety stock, and order policies for all groups. Balance inventory availability against excess and obsolete stock and coordinate buys based on demand forecasts, customer orders, production schedules, and seasonality.
- Adheres to Quality Policy by exceeding customer expectations, being customer focused and supporting continuous improvement activities.
Qualifications:
MBA/Master’s required with an undergraduate degree in Business Management, Supply Chain or similar with at least 12-15+ years work experience in a similar capacity with a large, multi-site durable goods manufacturing organization and robust background in materials, warehousing and inventory management. Experience must contain "turn around background" with quantifiable results. Other attributes include:
- Strong, influential leadership skills. Must have highly effective oral and written communication, presentation skills with an influential dynamic personality that will facilitate cross-functional dialog at every level.
- Creative and intuitive. Able to bring ideas to support best-in-class.
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel and Word.
- Working knowledgeable of MRP systems.
- Adheres to Safety policies and practices behavioral based safety 100% of the time.
- Prior experience working in and leading teams in a matrix-based organization.
