The Supply Chain Manager for the Perma Pure Group will be a valued contributor to the Group's Operations Leadership Team. This important role will lead a cross-site team of supply chain and work directly with production teams, cross-functionally to support sales and finance.
Essential Job Functions:
Purchasing Planning
- Lead all aspects of all Supply Chain with responsibility to day-to-day purchasing, cost management, scheduling and supplier management.
- Implements and maintains process improvements by analyzing and establishing best practices for supply and materials management.
- In collaboration with the Director of Operations, coordinates interdepartmental activity with quality assurance, manufacturing, purchasing, engineering, inventory control, and logistics.
- Ensures inventory control and accuracy is managed and maintained within the business financial guidelines and best practices.
- Responsible supplier OTD, supplier quality and material flow, including expediting, pushout or cancelling purchase orders.
- Collaborates with Product Management and Engineering on customer requests and New Product Development.
Management
- A key contributor to the Production Management team, attends, supports and contributes the team’s daily, weekly monthly meetings and KPIs goals.
- Responsible for contributions and together with the S&IOP Manager, deliver the monthly material flow to maximize the production plan to achieve maximum revenue capture and safety stock fulfillment.
- Ensure material availability for planned production orders are met using MRP tools.
- Works closely other disciplines to ensure that manufacturing bill of materials, demand, and schedule are appropriately loaded in the MRP system to facilitate the organization’s success.
- Advises Production management team of the status of purchase order deliveries, material availability to ensure production management is capable of output goals.
- Provides the leadership skills to influence, empower, and advise the staff to build effective department and foster cooperation between the various functional counterparts
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree preferred.
- Minimum 7 years of professional experience as a Supply Chain/Purchasing Management.
- Ability to learn and understand technical details and act as a subject matter expert for business processes related to order entry, order management, customer and sales reporting.
- Experience managing ERP, and other technical systems cross-functionally.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and proven ability to present to internal and external stakeholders
- Strong analytical skills and comfort with learning new technologies, systems, and applications.
- Strong and proven problem-solving skills
- Computer proficiency in Microsoft Office products (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Visio)
- Ability to train and mentor other department members.
Competencies:
- Integrity & Honesty
- Negotiator
- Planning & Organization
- Excellent Communicator
- Analytical problem solving
- Team Player
- Takes Initiative/Proactive
- Strong ERP Utilization
- Customer Focused