Regional Supply Chain Manager (CMP) - North America
Newark, DE
Must be a US Citizen or Green Card holder.
- The Regional Supply Chain Manager is accountable for the planning and scheduling of raw materials, intermediates, and finished goods out of NAR for customers globally.
- The Regional Supply Chain Manager is a major facilitator of the Integrated Business Process meetings in the short and mid-term horizon and maintains close communication with several teams within the business and operations.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the design of the NAR supply chain to achieve the customer service level objectives of the business.
- Accountable for receiving the supply plan from the Master Planner, translating it into a Master Production Schedule and Asset Schedule, identifying constraints and communicating the plan to the manufacturing organization for execution.
- Accountable for raw materials ordering, managing risks associated with suppliers and Contract Manufacturing organizations
- Accountable for finished goods and tolled distribution plans.
- Provide oversight to the Master Schedulers, Asset Schedulers, Distribution Requirement Planners and Material Planners at the plant
- Interview and hire staff as needed and oversee staff training.
- Lead and develop the NAR team to be a best-in-class Supply Chain Team.
- Benchmark other supply chain operations and implement best practices.
- Maintain an effective performance management process reviewing all direct reports’ progress against mid-year and annual plans and continually develop their effectiveness as technical practitioners, as well as providing opportunity for career development
- Responsible for facilitating the Integrated Business meetings across Demand, Operations, Sourcing, Finance and Logistics organizations, including the Decision Center calls and Demand Supply Reconciliation meetings
- Responsible for assessing material and information flows across the supply chain at tactical and/or strategic levels
- Define and implement information technology infrastructure to support supply chain operations.
- Develops and maintains policies and procedures for safety stock, lead time, MTO / MTS strategies, schedule changes and appropriate approvals.
- Responsible to manage supply chain optimizations projects or make/buy decisions on new and existing products, in collaboration with Sales and Marketing teams.
- Responsible for managing the rules for abnormal demand, supply issues (including constrained supply), and customer requirements outside the capability of the supply chain to deliver.
- Responsible for defining, prioritizing and managing Lean/Six Sigma project activities in pursuit of supply chain improvement.
- Responsible for driving process simplification and standardization
- Responsible for consistently monitoring performance metrics, analsysi root cause and corrective actions and identifying opportunities to deliver an improved competitive advantage
- Responsible for production capacity utilization, Performance-to-Plan and Performance-to-Schedule actuals in alignment with Operations on the capacity improvement projects.
- Responsible for Regional Inventory level, inventory health and Days’ supply of inventory to minimize production risk while maximizing inventory turns.
- Responsible for mitigating risk of inventory obsolescence by evaluating aging and blocked inventory and performing a root cause analysis in cases of expired inventory to prevent similar issues from happening in the future
- Responsible for on time delivery in accordance with Order Fulfillment
Organizational Relationships:
- Reports to the Global Supply Chain Manager
- Works in close coordination with the plant, and working together with site leader and area managers
- Works closely with procurement, contract manufacturing and supplier quality teams
- Works closely with Logistics resources
- Works with the Engineering Science and Capital Engineering team for key capacity projects
Requirements
1. University degree in Engineering or a related discipline
2. APICS CPIM Certified
3. A minimum of 12 Years of Experience, at least 3 years in a management role
4. At least 6 years in an operational role and ideally 6 years of supply chain experience
5. Direct ERP experience required
6. Certified and active Six Sigma practitioner
7. Must be a US Citizen or Green Card holder.