This is an ideal opportunity for a hands-on professional to lead a supply chain team through the company’s exciting rapid growth and touching all areas of operational support in vendor management, raw materials replenishment, inventory management, forecasting, budgeting and continuous improvement.
Assignment: 4332
Title: Supply Chain Manager
Industry: Frameless Cabinetry
Reports To: SVP Operations
Location: Southeast
Our Client:
Our client is a young and expanding company positioned to scale rapidly given their consistent 100% year-over-year growth. Nimble, and able to make the right decisions quickly, this company is bureaucracy-free, and our client’s dedicated and entrepreneurial leadership team believes in rewarding those who help them achieve their goals.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
- Supply chain organization, charged with identifying, implementing and enhancing successful methods of delivering superior service and the lowest cost
- Identify key suppliers and partners with these suppliers to develop long term mutually beneficial relationships that ensure long term success for both parties
- Build new vendors and improve the supply chain in a cost-effective manner
- Act as an internal consultant on all supply chain related issues. Design and implement improvements to Supply Chain to support business growth and improvement strategies
- Work with manufacturing to rationalize outsourcing and in-sourcing activities
- Develop inventory management strategies and programs to ensure maximum inventory turns, best price, high quality and consistent support to manufacturing
Position Requirements:
- 5+ years of increasing supply chain experience in the kitchen cabinet industry
- Has played a role in helping the organization in high level planning of its annual costs and budgets, both short and longer term
- Experience working with suppliers driving innovation, from new product introductions to continuous improvement
- Ability to implement and use analytics to drive improved supplier performance
- Has developed and implemented strategy ensuring continuity of supply and mitigating supply chain disruptions
- Extensive knowledge of supply chain best practices in demand planning, supply planning, production scheduling, inventory management, network organization, and ERP systems
- Business Analytics – Knowledge of technologies, techniques and practices for the evaluation of business performance data; ability to analyze business performance using advanced statistical methods to justify and drive future business planning decisions
- Accuracy and Attention to Detail – Understanding of the necessity and value of accuracy and attention to detail; ability to process information with high levels of accuracy
- Business Markets – Knowledge of existing and planned markets and market-related initiatives from the perspectives of the competition, the suppliers, the customer base and the regulatory environment; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations
- Procurement – Knowledge of company practices for the procurement of materials, equipment and services needed in the manufacturing process; ability to apply related knowledge, experience and skills into real work
- Must be very adept in MS Excel
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering preferred. SCM Certification an added advantage
Contact
Recruiter
bdurshimer@brookechase.com
941-914-9162