SHW - Director, Supply Chain

TriRx Shawnee LLC

Shawnee, KS

Expired: 19 days ago Applications are no longer accepted.

Full-Time

Job Description

Job Summary

The Director, Supply Chain has direct responsibility for driving cost savings through oversight and management including planning, controlling, and coordinating all aspects of the supply chain to include demand planning, procurement, purchasing of materials, production scheduling, inventory management, warehousing, transportation, and logistics. Develops and implements supply chain strategies and processes for efficient material operations. Establishes priorities and leads activities to ensure achievement of customer and business commitments.

Scope of Authority

Manages, controls, and directs the activities of all personnel engaged in site materials support (i.e. Purchasing, Scheduling, Warehouse, Inventory Control, Logistics, Shipping and Receiving) that contribute positively to customer satisfaction. This includes but is not limited to developing, implementing, and managing policies and procedures necessary to ensure adequate controls are in place for the effective execution of purchasing and scheduling within the site.
Develops, implements, and manages policies necessary to ensure world-class inventory control and shipping functions. Partners with Finance and Accounting to ensure cycle counts are maintained and reported in accordance with corporate policies and guidelines.
Ensures that the Company standard practices and procedures are followed in connection with all supply chain department functions.
Ensures the materials teams are educated to the applicable elements of their respective customer’s contract and are compliant with respect to those elements.
Ensures compliance with all applicable regulatory and customer requirements.
Accountable for adherence to supply chain and cost reduction targets, overseeing demand planning activities, monitoring progress, increasing supply dependability and flexibility, reviewing schedule, and resolving cross departmental problems.
Monitors and reports on revenue and inventory plans, identify issues and recommend solutions and/or act as appropriate for assigned business units.
Oversees the purchasing and/or contracting for materials, supplies, equipment, and services for the operation of the site. Confers with requesting parties when specific sources are requested. Investigate and solve problems resulting from material shortages regardless of cause.
Establishes and maintains purchasing practices and policies to ensure honest, fair, and ethical relationships with vendors. Keeps informed on legal matters that affect purchasing policies.
Develops, establish, and provides for the maintenance of all data and parameters that relate to the materials function.
Collaborates with site and Executive management to ensure financial objectives and other metrics are adequately managed and demonstrate continuous improvement.
Maintains optimum inventory levels to ensure on-time deliveries to meet customer requirements while minimizing carrying costs and premium transportation charges and maximizing inventory turnover.
Monitors and reports on current and projected inventory levels at both the component and assembly level and generate action plans to ensure that site inventory goals are achieved.
Tracks and reports on residual inventory and drive disposition through the customer focus team.
Supervises the annual physical inventory including valuation of the physical inventory.
Monitors capacity planning requirements and recommends solutions and/or takes action to resolve.
Oversees and ensure proper production control planning and scheduling to meet sales forecasts and to balance the level of material, manpower and machine requirements in line with committed delivery schedules to customers.
Investigates and follow up of deviations to the production schedule.
Recommends improvements and implement recommendations for improvements to the extended supply chain process to gain efficiencies.
Establishes key programs or projects that target specific improvement opportunities to reduce costs and lead times, resolve quality issues, or increase supply dependability and flexibility. Ensure achievement of planned results.
Responsible to develop high performance teams including interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning and assigning and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
Accountable to execute on staff development, with a focus on evaluating potential, driving successions planning and ensuring that their employees receive the development and coaching required to realize their full potential.
Provides customer support to sales group by representing materials in sales presentations and periodic customer meetings and interactions, customer visits, quarterly business reviews, etc.
Perform other duties as assigned.

Key Accountabilities

Accountability

Responsibilities

% of Time

Warehouse

Operations

Direct All Warehouse Activities.

continuous

Procurement

Ensure all procurement activities within the site are performed in a cost-effective and compliant manner.

continuous

Site SAP Administration

Lead all SAP initiatives, including process improvement to maximize its use.

continuous

Master Scheduling and Planning

Lead activities to improve and/or sustain Schedule Adherence and On Time in Full Metrics.

continuous

Department Training

Develop, implement, and sustain departmental training to ensure all personnel are qualified to perform assigned functions.

continuous

Customer Service

Provide excellent customer service through Product Transfer and Commercialization.

continuous

Compliance

Ensure all departmental activities are performed according to policy and procedure.

continuous

Sales & Operations Planning

Provide and lead recurring analysis, reports, and presentations for sales and operations.

continuous

Safety

Ensures activities within the warehouse and supply chain comply with TriRx policies, procedures, and OSHA regulations.

continuous

Total

100%

Qualifications

Education & Experience

Bachelor’s degree is business or related field required.
Ten (10) years of related experience and Seven (7) years in a leadership role required.
An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the key job accountabilities may be considered.

Knowledge

Understanding of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) tools
Understand Master Scheduling and Capacity Resource Planning on site level.
Ability to communicate effectively in both written and verbal formats.
Strong presentation skills within internal and customer environments.
Adept in negotiation with suppliers and customers.
Effective analytical, planning, and organizational skills.

Skills

Abilities

Demonstrate ability to maintain strict confidences.
Effective interpersonal skills with employees and customers.
Demonstrate strong leadership and people management skills.
Ability to independently drive solutions to complex planning issues.
Lead, or at least participate in, a continuous improvement activity with documentation, including a follow up review with the team in a presentation format.
A passion for customer commitment by influencing members of the operational team to effectively implement customer strategy.

Physical Requirements

Office or Warehouse environment.
Ability to lift 40 pounds.
Walk across plant/warehouse.
This is 100% on site position.

Disclaimer: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications. Management reserves the right to change or modify such duties as required.