Job Description

Role Overview and Responsibilities:

Introduction:

The Supply Chain Manager leads the department to execute best-in-class planning, sourcing, and procurement for Perry facility and supports strategic global procurement activities. This is a key senior role across all aspects of strategic and tactical management of materials. This role has ownership of all aspects of inventory, material costs, and on-site logistics. The Supply Chain Manager works closely with the Production, Engineering, Quality, and Commercial teams in pursuit of continuous productivity improvement, supplier negotiation, supplier development and asset management while assuring timely delivery of materials and services.

Key Responsibilities:

- Accountable for all planning, sourcing, and purchasing functions within the facility, developing strategies to improve On Time performance of material availability, and works with suppliers on cost and supply strategies.

- Manages a team of 8-12 direct reports. Leads the functional people agenda to build robust succession plans, rich SCM talent pools and promote the benefit and value of an integrated functional team.

- Responsible for optimization of inventory to improve cash position of the business.

- Drives improvements in the site's SIOP process to deliver accurate output, capacity, and financial plans, in line with customer and business expectations regarding cashflow, revenue and profit.

- Identifies and evaluates supply chain challenges faced by the business and within the industry, and takes action to mitigate risks and develops opportunities, such as ensuring supplies can be obtained from multiple sources or produced through alternative facilities.

- Ensures purchasing policies, guidelines, and commercial compliance are in place and updated when required and works collaboratively with teams (i.e. Internal Audit, Health/Safety/Environmental, and Sustainability, etc.) across the business to build robust internal procedures.

- Leads and influences the deployment and use of ERP software to support effective planning, inventory management, logistics and distribution. Establish accurate end-to-end visibility of the value chain.

- Ensures a deep collaboration with the Finance team to support forecasting and budgeting activities throughout the planning cycle.

- Works internally with cross functional teams to improve performance, providing transparent KPIs and uses lean tools to establish improvement plans.

- Collaborates with colleagues across TT sites to establish joint purchasing strategies to leverage cost/delivery & availability.

- This role is both strategic and sometimes hands-on, helping the team through difficult supply challenges and working closely with customers, to ensure internal and external customers' requirements are met.

Qualifications, Skills and Attributes:

Core Requirements:

- Leadership experience in a similar role, ideally within the Electronics sector.

- Ability to clearly articulate a challenge and set plans in place to contain/improve and to develop and grow the talent within the supply chain organization.

- Strong people management skills (communication, emotional intelligence, delegation, conflict resolution, coaching, adaptability, & decision making). Is transparent and is a team player.

- Competent in commercial negotiation and can lead discussions with suppliers and can hold ground with customers.

- Examples of significant improvement in supply chain performance, team building and inventory management through career to date.

- Ability to influence at all levels with excellent communication skills.

- A deep knowledge of Supply Chain management with the ability to think logically in a fast-changing environment.

- Strong people management skills and experience. Ability to motivate and lead groups and individuals.

- Demonstrated track record of managing change. An advocate for continuous improvement, never satisfied with the status quo. Creative and strategic thinking and planning

- Experience using systems data to leverage automation to improve team and process productivity.