Operational Supply Manager – Passenger and Light Truck Tire

How You Will Make an Impact

This role is centered around ensuring that customer needs are effectively communicated and translated into actionable plans within the plant organization with a strong focus on meeting customer needs, managing risks, and optimizing resources. It's a dynamic position that requires excellent communication, planning, and problem-solving skills.

• Steer Structural Availability: Track, analyze and steer structural availability through Structural Coverage Target management
• Communicate & promote our customer needs & requirements throughout the plant organizations
• Ensure the plants focus on operational priorities & leverage additional resources as needed
• Analyze, identify, and communicate short-term supply chain issues
• Collaborate with Demand & Supply Balancing to ensure focus on market priorities
• Align demand & supply corridors to meet customer requirements
• Translate market requirements into plant requirements
• Make operational priorities transparent to all levels of the organization
• Coordinate throughout the Supply Chain: Steer the regional plant capacities & utilization with emphasis on reliability & effectiveness
• Coordinate cross-plant responsibility for multiple-source articles
• Coordinate with the strategic supply manager to create and/or activate inter-plant flexibility to react to sudden market or manufacturing changes and consequent plant load variations
• Systems & Process Improvement: Lead projects within the Supply Chain organization to improve quality of reporting and management visibility, process efficiencies, improved on time delivery and overall customer satisfaction
• Increase plants accountability on structural availability by improving related processes
• Manage process changes in the supply chain organization, applies change management strategies to ensure continuous improvement
• Measure supply chain variances, analyze cause and effect, recommend corrective action, and publish results
• Special Projects & Reports/analysis as needed

What You Bring to the Role

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering or related degree
• 7+ years of Supply Chain Management or related experience
• Prior process optimization experience
• Strong communication skills
• Proven critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. Continental is only able to offer visa support for internals individuals who currently hold an existing valid employment visa
• Relocation available if needed

Additional Ways to Stand Out

• 10+ years of Supply Chain Management related experience
• Manufacturing related experience
• Strong data analysis and reporting skills
• Spanish or Portuguese speaking

Benefits

• Immediate Benefits
• Robust Total Rewards Package
• Paid Time Off
• Volunteer Time Off
• Tuition Assistance
• Employee Discounts, including tire discounts
• Competitive Bonus Programs
• Employee 401k Match
• Diverse & Inclusive Work Environment with 20+ Employee Resource groups
• Hybrid Work
• Employee Assistance Program
• Future Growth Opportunities, including personal and professional
• And many more benefits that come with working for a global industry leader