Job Description

Responsibilities & Qualifications:

Key Goals & Objectives:

• Drive delivery & lead time improvements:
• Service level, Lead-time, Ship to request, Customer delivery scorecards
• Extraordinary Customer Experience
• Internal Supply Chain department scorecards to improve execution
• Represent supply chain organization during customer quarterly business reviews, and monthly internal customer focus team meetings. Deliver scorecard metrics and delivery performance to the global team
• Lead a team of regional planners to deliver extraordinary customer experience.

Demand and Inventory Planning:

• Co-leads the S&OP process with Demand Planning.  Ensures the efficient planning of product promotions, new production introductions and product end of life. 
• Identifies and resolves supply and demand issues that impact a maximized inventory investment. 
• Production, Sales and Inventory (PSI):
• On a monthly basis, converts the forecast in to a maximized production, sales and inventory investment plan
• Provides manufacturing updates on significant demand changes. Communicates with manufacturing plants, and plans for product updates, promotions, new product launches, end of life and rework
• Communicates trends to manufacturing plants by PSI category
• On a yearly basis create a PSI for the Annual Budget.

Inventory Management:

• Implements self-scheduling in the manufacturing plants. Assists planners with the planning tool upon implementation.
• Sets target finished goods inventory levels based on S&OP and the manufacturing plants’ abilities to supply
• Manages inventories to assure the highest level of customer service while achieving company inventory targets
• Logistic & Distribution cost management
• Optimize supply chain solutions to manage logistic and distribution costs
• Partner with local sales team aligned to this key account to execute logistics agreements and recommend supply models
• Support analysis and make recommendations to improve supply chain flow, manufacturing regions, transfers/cost reductions, inventory positioning and best incoterms 
• Work closely with the regional team and other corporate functions to drive innovation and continuous Improvements
• Share best practices
• Lead and drive culture of continuous improvement
• Teamwork/Building effective Teams
• Coach, mentor and motivate direct team
• Build working relations with functional departments and global teams
• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, team work and quality.

Key Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, MBA desired with 5-7 years’ experience in supply chain management
• Extensive functional knowledge of planning, forecasting and related integrated supply chain areas
• Experience leading projects, and/or business teams or providing key technical expertise
• Operations experience in Industrial products is preferred
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Directs others and sets a leadership example in company change initiatives
• Establishes team and department goals with direction and in concert with the strategic goals of the supply chain organization
• Consistently resolves conflict and gets others to resolve conflicts
• Achieving commitments. Consistently delivers on commitments in disciplined ways.

Competencies:

• Managing and Measuring Work
• Motivating Others
• Building Effective Teams
• Values: Integrity, Accountability,Teamwork, Innovation
• SET : Strategy, Execution, Talent (for managers).

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