Supply Chain Manager Jobs

We are seeking a talented and experienced individual for the Supply Chain Manager position with our client. Ideal candidate will be a self-motivated professional with proven leadership experience. The Supply Chain Managerdevelops and executes business strategy that delivers value through total cost of ownership solutions and helps ensure organization has a reliable supply chain. The Supply Chain Manager builds an innovative, visionary, and strategic 1-3 year roadmap for sourcing that align business strategies. Lead the team to deliver on costing goals and drive financial results for the business. Through creative thought leadership, help teams build negotiation plans and understand varied negotiation levers to optimize value and outcomes across all categories. Understand the financials of the business and creatively influence balancing cost, quality, and efficiency to improve sales and profitability, and drive best value. This role will require travel up to 25 % Global Travel.

Responsibilities:

• Implement sourcing design changes to improve reliability in operations and reductions in costs.
• Work with operations and business team to design optimal source points and shipping arrangements.
• Maintain overall supplier relationships, establish annual cost-out, quality, and on time delivery targets with key suppliers. Provide regular performance feedback to suppliers, Quality Business Reviews (QBR’s) and drive corrective actions as required.
• Lead supplier development and execution of the strategic sourcing strategy.
• Maintain knowledge of market industry trends within area of expertise and communicate potential impact on business.
• Work collaboratively with all functions, including but not limited to engineering, operations, product teams and users to ensure internal customer needs are met.
• Develop commodity strategies based on organization’s volumes or volumes of future acquisitions.
• Monitor supplier market characteristics regularly; identifies opportunities resulting from market shifts and takes advantage of such shifts.
• Identify areas of risk within supply chain; implement appropriate mitigation measures.
• Manage supplier performance (quality, delivery, total cost)
• Manage cost and assets (cost, productivity, inventory)
• Monitor changes affecting supply and demand, track market conditions, price trends, and futures markets.
• Lead Continuous Improvement events with suppliers; improves total cost of ownership.
• Develop, negotiate, and administer contracts for key suppliers; manage supplier base.
• Operate daily to meet reliability objectives for customer supply.
• Have a strong understanding of the global and domestic economic landscape, at both country of production and vendor/factory matrix levels. Capable of synthesizing knowledge of global landscape and business strategies to develop a global/vendor matrix plan that meets current sourcing needs and positions the business for optimal results in future landscapes.
• Works with the Operations team to maximize value across the supply chain and drive a culture of continual improvement.
• Serves our customers (Operations, Engineering, Finance, Sales, and End Customers) and ensures a cost-competitive continuity of supply for existing parts and services as well as for new product development and introduction.
• Resolve nonconformance issues, back-charges and claims in a timely manner to minimize the Company's exposure.
• Enforce terms and conditions of purchase orders and other agreements and compliance with legal requirements and Company policy. Make sure parts are set up properly, supplier master etc. and in the ERP system.
• Develop supplier spend reports to identify targeted improvements, leverages value for the company.

Qualifications:

• Skills to analyze supplier financial information and capability.
• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or related area. MBA Desirable.
• Experience setting challenging goals & objectives, identify metrics and measures progress, and delivering results.
• Creative in expanding a diverse supplier spend.
• 3+ years of leadership experience.
• 7+ years of progressive sourcing, and contracting experience, including extensive experience developing and executing strategic sourcing plans and negotiation experience.
• 3+ years of experience managing Electrical and Electronic categories.