Supply Chain Manager

Position Summary:
The Supply Chain Manager is responsible for managing all aspects of purchasing and inventory including selection of vendors.

Essential Duties Include:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

• Negotiates pricing/quality/delivery requirements to provide appropriate inventory levels for all production facilities in alignment with specific production processes, machine capability/capacity and industry standards.
• Establishes primary metrics, data analyses and methodologies to drive clear decisions related to inventory quality, cost, and delivery performance.
• Identify and implement cross-functional synergies, improvements and cost saving projects as it relates to purchasing and inventory management.
• Trouble-shoot purchasing and inventory issues, develop efficient/effective strategies for problem resolution and implementation
• Develop and execute reliable vendor selection strategy that aligns with short-term and long-term supply chain management/production control requirements.
• Develop and implement vendor performance metrics including spend review, vendor assessments, consolidation of vendor base, decision criteria for assessing needs for all material and services.
• Collaborates and communicates with cross-functional partners: Production, Finance, IT, HR, and Customer Service at each of the 3 locations.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field with 5 years of supply chain and 2 years of Purchasing/Inventory Management experience
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Productions and a ERP.
• Demonstrated ability of excellent communication, listening skills and continuous improvement process improvement.
• Must have a high degree of self-motivation, ambition, and capability to work in a fast-paced environment.