Sr. Director, Supply Chain – North America
Nextpower · Fremont, CA · 1 mo ago
Management$230k–$265k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. Must preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the job description.
Key sections:
- About the role: description of company and role overview. Could be a paragraph.
- Responsibilities: list of duties (the "glimpse of what you’ll do…" and later details). Should be a
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. Must preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the job description.
Key sections:
- About the role: description of company and role overview. Could be a paragraph.
- Responsibilities: list of duties (the "glimpse of what you’ll do…" and later details). Should be a - .
- Requirements / Qualifications: The "Here Is Some Of What You’ll Need (required)…" list. Could be Requirements.
- Skills: maybe separate but could be part of Requirements. The instruction: Use headings for Skills if present. We have many skill items; could put under Skills.
- Benefits: The paragraph about benefits package.
- Pay: The salary range line.
- Schedule: Not present (no mention of schedule). So omit.
We must not include placeholder like "commensurate with experience". Pay section: we have specific salary range, so include.
We must not repeat job title. Not include Job ID.
We must not include EEO etc. At end there is EEO statement; remove.
We must not include navigation/cookie etc.
We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences.
Let's craft.
First, maybe an
About the role
with a paragraph summarizing company and role.
Then Responsibilities
with list items.
We need to extract responsibilities from the text.
Responsibilities include:
- Establish the necessary KPIs for North America Supply Chain tracking and reporting
- Drive the company’s North America supply chain strategy including:
- Working closely with North America sales VPs and marketing to understand mid/long term North America’s growth initiatives.
- Serve as main point of contact for Supply Chain for the region and responsible for leading and organizing efforts of entire regional Supply Chain team per company objectives and strategic plans.
- Understand product technical and economic requirements, as well as specific project needs.
- Align and collaborate with global Sourcing Global and Regional Leaders to ensure supply plan strategy aligned with mid/long term needs for North America markets.
- Jointly with Sourcing leaders, drive implementation of agreed regional sourcing strategies (suppliers mix, identification and development, support negotiations, capacity development plans, cost competitiveness).
- Lead and coordinate all aspects of development of execution plans – including alignment with Sourcing team, Sales and Project Operations – to secure on-time and on-budget delivery of regional projects.
- Align and collaborate with global Supply Chain Operations leaders to ensure consistency with global strategies and processes and align in effective localization when required due to country/region business needs and compliance.
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing regional Supply Chain team, ensuring operational excellence, capability development, strong team cohesion across geographies.
- As regional leader, be local representative of global supply chain leaders – coordinate with them – in managing local employee related issues with HR.
- Collaborate with other departments (Finance, Project Operations, R&D, Product, Sales, HR) to create coordinated plans for business growth and successful launch of new products and/or new Business Units in region.
- Represent Supply Chain and participate in meetings/presentations with customers as needed, and with established frequencies such as Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) with key customers.
- Drive the company’s North America supply chain execution including:
- Work closely with Sales and Operations to develop customized delivery schedules for each project, aiming best-in-class customer delivery experience.
- Monitor all active North America projects under execution, through developing and maintaining appropriate internal KPIs with North America Supply Chain team members.
- Monitor North America suppliers’ allocations to ensure OTD (On Time Delivery) and cost optimization. Ensure weekly review of end-to-end logistics execution for North America projects.
- Monthly Regional Review meetings to update Supply Chain Global leadership of status of operations and key programs.
- Analyze data from execution processes and KPIs (planning, production and delivery) to identify bottlenecks and areas for optimization. Implement corrective/preventive actions and update SOPs.
- Increase supply chain flexibility and continuity, to anticipate and implement solutions to supply chain disruptions due to health pandemics, transportation issues, weather events, etc.
- Lead design and implementation of supply chain initiatives that enable speed and flexibility to deliver top-line growth while delivering continuity of supply, exceptional quality, and superior customer service.
- Manage all North America project escalations related to Supply Chain (i.e. delays) setting up escalation meetings within Supply Chain, maintaining direct contact with North America vendors C-suite and diligently reporting with internal customers (Project Operations Leaders) and applicable Nextpower executives and leading efforts until satisfactorily resolution is achieved.
- Understand Nextpower Supply Chain ERP (Anaplan) capabilities and ensure its proper use.
- Support digital transformation, initiating business system solutions enabling efficiency gain in all North America Supply Chain activities.
- Ensure supply chain processes meet legal requirements and standards, particularly related to Nextpower being a public company including Monthly, Quarterly and Annual audit requirements (i.e. inventory counts, IR/IF).
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement and achieve operational excellence while ensuring that all initiatives are scalable and executed with consistency.
- Develop and implement safety guidelines across the entire North America supply chain.
That's a lot; we can condense into bullet points but must preserve all substantive info. Could group similar items but must not lose detail. Might be okay to have many bullet points.
Then Requirements/Qualifications: list from "Here Is Some Of What You’ll Need (required)…" includes:
- 20+ years of experience as a supply chain leader (experience in EPC/construction industry is preferred). Global experience strongly preferred.
- Understanding of North America regulatory and business practices across key markets
- Previous experience in contract manufacturing is preferred
- Excellent knowledge of supply chain processes
- Excellent organizational and project management skills
- Strong leadership and communication skills
- Ability to report and present a strategy at executive level
- Comfortable working in a very fast pace and under tight deadlines
- Experience managing a multi-cultural team
- Experience forming and developing high performing leaders and teams
- A strategic and analytical mind, with attention to details
- Results orientated and demonstrated ability to think out of the box to drive results
- Autonomous
- Advanced Negotiation skills, including strong knowledge of commercial contracts
- Stimulate a problem-solving culture
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially in Excel and PowerPoint
- Working experience of relevant software (e.g. Anaplan, Netsuite, PowerBi)
- Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, or similar field
- Availability to travel on a regular basis, including international travel – 30% expected
We could split into Requirements and Skills. But we can just have one Requirements section.
Benefits: paragraph about benefits package: "Nextpower offers a comprehensive benefits package. We provide health care coverage, dental and vision, 401(K) participation including company matching, company paid holidays with unlimited paid time off, generous discretionary company bonuses, life and disability protection and more. Employees in certain positions may be eligible for stock compensation. All plans are in accordance with relevant plan documents. For more information on Nextpower's benefits please view our company website at www.nextpower.com."
Pay: "Pay is based on market location and may vary based on factors including experience, skills, education and other job-related reasons. The annual salary range for this position is $230,000 to $265,000 (Specific to California)". We need to include Pay section only if posting actually states them. Yes.
Schedule: none.
We must not include placeholder like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
Now produce HTML.
We'll have:
About the role
... paragraph ...
Responsibilities
- ...
...
Requirements
- ...
...
Benefits
...
Pay
...
Make sure no extra whitespace? It's fine.
Now craft the About the role paragraph: combine company description and role overview.
From text: "At Nextpower , we are leading in the energy transition, providing the most comprehensive portfolio of intelligent solar tracker and control software solutions for solar power plants, as well as strategic services to capture the full value of solar power plants for our customers. Our talented worldwide teams are transforming PV plant performance every day with smart technology, data monitoring and analysis services. As a company driving the clean energy transition, sustainability is not just a word. It's a core part of our business and our operations. Our sustainability efforts are based on five cornerstones: People, Community, Environment, Innovation, and Integrity. We are creative, collaborative and passionate problem-solvers from diverse backgrounds, driven by our shared mission to provide smart solar and software solutions for our customers and to mitigate climate change for future generations. Make your mark with Nextpower. We are seeking an experienced supply chain leader to lead North America supply chain operations with full strategic and executional ownership. This dynamic leader will ensure that our North America supply chain functions as best in class, at scale, and exceed internal and external customer expectations. For this role, the North America region includes US and Canada. Based in our Fremont, CA headquarters, this position will report to the VP, Supply Chain."
We can condense but keep all substantive info. Avoid fluff? Keep.
Now responsibilities bullet list: need to include all points. Might be long but okay.
We'll produce each bullet as a concise sentence preserving info.
Let's draft bullets:
- Establish the necessary KPIs for North America Supply Chain tracking and reporting.
- Drive the company’s North America supply chain strategy by working closely with North America sales VPs and marketing to understand mid/long term growth initiatives.
- Serve as the main point of contact for Supply Chain for the region and lead and organize the efforts of the entire regional Supply Chain team in accordance with company objectives and strategic plans.
- Understand product technical and economic requirements, as well as specific project needs.
- Align and collaborate with global Sourcing Global and Regional Leaders to ensure the supply plan strategy aligns with mid/long term needs for North America markets.
- Jointly with Sourcing leaders, drive implementation of agreed regional sourcing strategies (supplier mix, supplier identification and development, support negotiations, capacity development plans, cost competitiveness).
- Lead and coordinate all aspects of execution plan development, including alignment with Sourcing, Sales, and Project Operations, to secure on-time and on-budget delivery of regional projects.
- Align and collaborate with global Supply Chain Operations leaders to ensure consistency with global strategies and processes, and localize them as required for country/region business needs and compliance.
- Build, lead, and develop a high‑performing regional Supply Chain team, ensuring operational excellence, capability development, and strong team cohesion across geographies.
- Act as the local representative of global supply chain leaders, coordinating with them to manage local employee‑related issues with Human Resources.
- Collaborate with Finance, Project Operations, R&D, Product, Sales, and HR to create coordinated plans for business growth and successful launch of new products and/or new Business Units in the region.
- Represent Supply Chain in meetings/presentations with customers as needed and participate in Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) with key customers.
- Drive North America supply chain execution by working with Sales and Operations to develop customized delivery schedules for each project, aiming for best‑in‑class customer delivery experience.
- Monitor all active North America projects under execution, developing and maintaining appropriate internal KPIs with the Supply Chain team.
- Monitor North America suppliers’ allocations to ensure on‑time delivery (OTD) and cost optimization, and conduct weekly reviews of end‑to‑end logistics execution for North America projects.
- Hold monthly Regional Review meetings to update Supply Chain Global leadership on status of operations and key programs.
- Analyze data from execution processes and KPI
About the role
with a paragraph summarizing company and role. ThenResponsibilities
with- list items.
We need to extract responsibilities from the text.
Responsibilities include:
- Establish the necessary KPIs for North America Supply Chain tracking and reporting
- Drive the company’s North America supply chain strategy including:
- Working closely with North America sales VPs and marketing to understand mid/long term North America’s growth initiatives.
- Serve as main point of contact for Supply Chain for the region and responsible for leading and organizing efforts of entire regional Supply Chain team per company objectives and strategic plans.
- Understand product technical and economic requirements, as well as specific project needs.
- Align and collaborate with global Sourcing Global and Regional Leaders to ensure supply plan strategy aligned with mid/long term needs for North America markets.
- Jointly with Sourcing leaders, drive implementation of agreed regional sourcing strategies (suppliers mix, identification and development, support negotiations, capacity development plans, cost competitiveness).
- Lead and coordinate all aspects of development of execution plans – including alignment with Sourcing team, Sales and Project Operations – to secure on-time and on-budget delivery of regional projects.
- Align and collaborate with global Supply Chain Operations leaders to ensure consistency with global strategies and processes and align in effective localization when required due to country/region business needs and compliance.
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing regional Supply Chain team, ensuring operational excellence, capability development, strong team cohesion across geographies.
- As regional leader, be local representative of global supply chain leaders – coordinate with them – in managing local employee related issues with HR.
- Collaborate with other departments (Finance, Project Operations, R&D, Product, Sales, HR) to create coordinated plans for business growth and successful launch of new products and/or new Business Units in region.
- Represent Supply Chain and participate in meetings/presentations with customers as needed, and with established frequencies such as Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) with key customers.
- Drive the company’s North America supply chain execution including:
- Work closely with Sales and Operations to develop customized delivery schedules for each project, aiming best-in-class customer delivery experience.
- Monitor all active North America projects under execution, through developing and maintaining appropriate internal KPIs with North America Supply Chain team members.
- Monitor North America suppliers’ allocations to ensure OTD (On Time Delivery) and cost optimization. Ensure weekly review of end-to-end logistics execution for North America projects.
- Monthly Regional Review meetings to update Supply Chain Global leadership of status of operations and key programs.
- Analyze data from execution processes and KPIs (planning, production and delivery) to identify bottlenecks and areas for optimization. Implement corrective/preventive actions and update SOPs.
- Increase supply chain flexibility and continuity, to anticipate and implement solutions to supply chain disruptions due to health pandemics, transportation issues, weather events, etc.
- Lead design and implementation of supply chain initiatives that enable speed and flexibility to deliver top-line growth while delivering continuity of supply, exceptional quality, and superior customer service.
- Manage all North America project escalations related to Supply Chain (i.e. delays) setting up escalation meetings within Supply Chain, maintaining direct contact with North America vendors C-suite and diligently reporting with internal customers (Project Operations Leaders) and applicable Nextpower executives and leading efforts until satisfactorily resolution is achieved.
- Understand Nextpower Supply Chain ERP (Anaplan) capabilities and ensure its proper use.
- Support digital transformation, initiating business system solutions enabling efficiency gain in all North America Supply Chain activities.
- Ensure supply chain processes meet legal requirements and standards, particularly related to Nextpower being a public company including Monthly, Quarterly and Annual audit requirements (i.e. inventory counts, IR/IF).
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement and achieve operational excellence while ensuring that all initiatives are scalable and executed with consistency.
- Develop and implement safety guidelines across the entire North America supply chain.
That's a lot; we can condense into bullet points but must preserve all substantive info. Could group similar items but must not lose detail. Might be okay to have many bullet points.
Then Requirements/Qualifications: list from "Here Is Some Of What You’ll Need (required)…" includes:
- 20+ years of experience as a supply chain leader (experience in EPC/construction industry is preferred). Global experience strongly preferred.
- Understanding of North America regulatory and business practices across key markets
- Previous experience in contract manufacturing is preferred
- Excellent knowledge of supply chain processes
- Excellent organizational and project management skills
- Strong leadership and communication skills
- Ability to report and present a strategy at executive level
- Comfortable working in a very fast pace and under tight deadlines
- Experience managing a multi-cultural team
- Experience forming and developing high performing leaders and teams
- A strategic and analytical mind, with attention to details
- Results orientated and demonstrated ability to think out of the box to drive results
- Autonomous
- Advanced Negotiation skills, including strong knowledge of commercial contracts
- Stimulate a problem-solving culture
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially in Excel and PowerPoint
- Working experience of relevant software (e.g. Anaplan, Netsuite, PowerBi)
- Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, or similar field
- Availability to travel on a regular basis, including international travel – 30% expected
We could split into Requirements and Skills. But we can just have one Requirements section.
Benefits: paragraph about benefits package: "Nextpower offers a comprehensive benefits package. We provide health care coverage, dental and vision, 401(K) participation including company matching, company paid holidays with unlimited paid time off, generous discretionary company bonuses, life and disability protection and more. Employees in certain positions may be eligible for stock compensation. All plans are in accordance with relevant plan documents. For more information on Nextpower's benefits please view our company website at www.nextpower.com."
Pay: "Pay is based on market location and may vary based on factors including experience, skills, education and other job-related reasons. The annual salary range for this position is $230,000 to $265,000 (Specific to California)". We need to include Pay section only if posting actually states them. Yes.
Schedule: none.
We must not include placeholder like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
Now produce HTML.
We'll have:
- ... ...
- ... ...
About the role
... paragraph ...
Responsibilities
Requirements
Benefits
...
Pay
...
Make sure no extra whitespace? It's fine. Now craft the About the role paragraph: combine company description and role overview. From text: "At Nextpower , we are leading in the energy transition, providing the most comprehensive portfolio of intelligent solar tracker and control software solutions for solar power plants, as well as strategic services to capture the full value of solar power plants for our customers. Our talented worldwide teams are transforming PV plant performance every day with smart technology, data monitoring and analysis services. As a company driving the clean energy transition, sustainability is not just a word. It's a core part of our business and our operations. Our sustainability efforts are based on five cornerstones: People, Community, Environment, Innovation, and Integrity. We are creative, collaborative and passionate problem-solvers from diverse backgrounds, driven by our shared mission to provide smart solar and software solutions for our customers and to mitigate climate change for future generations. Make your mark with Nextpower. We are seeking an experienced supply chain leader to lead North America supply chain operations with full strategic and executional ownership. This dynamic leader will ensure that our North America supply chain functions as best in class, at scale, and exceed internal and external customer expectations. For this role, the North America region includes US and Canada. Based in our Fremont, CA headquarters, this position will report to the VP, Supply Chain." We can condense but keep all substantive info. Avoid fluff? Keep. Now responsibilities bullet list: need to include all points. Might be long but okay. We'll produce each bullet as a concise sentence preserving info. Let's draft bullets: - Establish the necessary KPIs for North America Supply Chain tracking and reporting. - Drive the company’s North America supply chain strategy by working closely with North America sales VPs and marketing to understand mid/long term growth initiatives. - Serve as the main point of contact for Supply Chain for the region and lead and organize the efforts of the entire regional Supply Chain team in accordance with company objectives and strategic plans. - Understand product technical and economic requirements, as well as specific project needs. - Align and collaborate with global Sourcing Global and Regional Leaders to ensure the supply plan strategy aligns with mid/long term needs for North America markets. - Jointly with Sourcing leaders, drive implementation of agreed regional sourcing strategies (supplier mix, supplier identification and development, support negotiations, capacity development plans, cost competitiveness). - Lead and coordinate all aspects of execution plan development, including alignment with Sourcing, Sales, and Project Operations, to secure on-time and on-budget delivery of regional projects. - Align and collaborate with global Supply Chain Operations leaders to ensure consistency with global strategies and processes, and localize them as required for country/region business needs and compliance. - Build, lead, and develop a high‑performing regional Supply Chain team, ensuring operational excellence, capability development, and strong team cohesion across geographies. - Act as the local representative of global supply chain leaders, coordinating with them to manage local employee‑related issues with Human Resources. - Collaborate with Finance, Project Operations, R&D, Product, Sales, and HR to create coordinated plans for business growth and successful launch of new products and/or new Business Units in the region. - Represent Supply Chain in meetings/presentations with customers as needed and participate in Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) with key customers. - Drive North America supply chain execution by working with Sales and Operations to develop customized delivery schedules for each project, aiming for best‑in‑class customer delivery experience. - Monitor all active North America projects under execution, developing and maintaining appropriate internal KPIs with the Supply Chain team. - Monitor North America suppliers’ allocations to ensure on‑time delivery (OTD) and cost optimization, and conduct weekly reviews of end‑to‑end logistics execution for North America projects. - Hold monthly Regional Review meetings to update Supply Chain Global leadership on status of operations and key programs. - Analyze data from execution processes and KPI