Supervisor, Supply Chain

About the role

Supervises team applying best standards and practices in Supply Chain and Logistics and monitors team compliance to relevant guidelines. Manages the resolution of inventory, asset, and vendor/suppliers deficiencies. Implements recommendations suggested to streamline current systems to optimize, maintain, and transform current processes, and oversees the creation of research plans to streamline new/existing business operating models according to supply chain future state. Manages the audits of suppliers, conducts corrective actions based on interpreting needs identified from audits, and facilitates business reviews. Facilitates strategic decisions making based on results on utilization, quality, inventory levels, and courier routes for projects, while assessing customer satisfaction levels.

Responsibilities

• Recommends developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships.
• Solicits and acts on performance feedback; provides team members with feedback; and mentors and coaches to drive performance improvement.
• Pursues professional growth; provides training and development to talent for growth opportunities; supports execution of performance management guidelines and expectations.
• Implements, adapts, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices and processes.
• Fosters open dialogue, supports, mentors, engages, and motivates team members on collaboration.
• Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance and scope.
• Supervises and coordinates daily activities of designated work team or unit by monitoring the execution and completion of tactical action items and work assignments; ensures all policies and procedures are followed.
• Aligns team efforts and standards, and measures progress in achieving results; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; resolves escalated issues as appropriate.
• Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates, obtains and distributes resources.
• Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and recommends improvement opportunities; influences teams to execute in alignment with operational objectives.
• Maintains and improves supply chain and operations by: supervising wide range of complex activities (i.e., shipping logistics, carrier, and inventory system evaluation) to optimize, maintain, and transform current processes for increased efficiency; developing and supervising research plans to identify new/existing business operating models according to supply chain future state functional and technical design; and, with contacts internal and external to the organization, implementing and monitoring processes to determine end-to-end sourcing, procurement, and logistics.
• Maintains suppliers/vendors performance and relationships by: supervising the development of audit processes of suppliers/vendors, ensuring they comply with policies and regulations; supervising programs for enabling the onboarding of new suppliers/vendors and supporting contract negotiations with suppliers/vendors; coordinating corrective actions at scale; supervising the resolution of suppliers/vendor issues; and coordinating efforts to broadly improve strategies for meeting operational and cost targets across suppliers/vendors.
• Provides direct oversight of compliance with state and federal regulations, and company policy/procedures pertaining to purchasing, inventory management, and distribution by: supervising the application of best standards and practices; supervising quotations for new stock and non-standard items, and fulfilling contracts to ensure compliance; implementing ongoing compliance monitoring (e.g., Joint commission, Sarbanes-Oxley [SOX]) and performance management audits to ensure staff performance is consistent with established standards; coordinating corrective action and the resolution of deficiencies as necessary on a timely basis and in accordance with company policy; and supervising the administration of programs of information, data, training, and education for managers/product users on standards programs, product selection, and expected compliance.
• Provides technical analysis and reporting services for others by: coordinating analyses and monitoring results on utilization, quality, inventory levels, and courier routes for a wide range of complex projects; overseeing customer satisfaction levels, rounding member sites on monthly basis to check on open issues and improvement opportunities, and monitoring the implementation of proven quality improvement procedures; evaluating tools, techniques, and assumptions to ensure complex analyses are appropriate to support operational and business decisions; and coordinating reports in response to business needs for selected departments documenting a wide range of complex analytical results.

  Requirements

  • Minimum two (2) years of experience with databases and spreadsheets.
  • Minimum one (1) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Material Management, Operations Research, or related field AND minimum four (4) years of experience in purchasing, contracting, negotiations, material management, logistics, finance, or a directly related field OR
  • Minimum seven (7) years of experience in purchasing, contracting, negotiations, material management, logistics, finance, or a directly related field.
  • One (1) year of experience in healthcare or another heavily regulated industry (e.g., Banking, Manufacturing).
  • Two (2) years of experience in project management.

  Qualifications

  • Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Core)
    • Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management
    • Attention to Detail
    • Business Knowledge
    • Communication
    • Constructive Feedback
    • Critical Thinking
    • Cross-Group Collaboration
    • Decision Making
    • Dependability
    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support
    • Drives Results
    • Facilitation Skills
    • Health Care Industry
    • Influencing Others
    • Integrity
    • Leadership
    • Learning Agility
    • Organizational Savvy
    • Problem Solving
    • Short- and Long-term Learning & Recall
    • Strategic Thinking
    • Team Building
    • Teamwork
    • Topic-Specific Communication Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Functional)
      • Accounting
      • Business Documentation
      • Business Process Improvement
      • Business Relationship Management
      • Compliance Management
      • Contract Management
      • Cost Estimation
      • Cost Optimization
      • Cost/Managerial Accounting Data
      • Data Extraction
      • Data Integration
      • Data Integrity
      • Distribution Logistics
      • Financial Plan Budgeting
      • Incident Management
      • Operational Excellence
      • Operations Management
      • Preventative Maintenance
      • Project Management
      • Quality Assurance Process
      • Risk Management
      • Service Focus
      • Shared Services
      • Supplier Management
      • Systems Thinking
      • Warehouse Operations

  Skills

  • Knowledge of supply chain and logistics best practices.
  • Ability to manage and resolve inventory, asset, and vendor/supplier deficiencies.
  • Experience in implementing recommendations to streamline current systems.
  • Proficiency in auditing suppliers and conducting corrective actions.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.
  • Ability to delegate tasks and provide guidance.
  • Experience in aligning team efforts and measuring progress.
  • Knowledge of compliance with state and federal regulations.
  • Experience in providing technical analysis and reporting services.

  Benefits

  Details about benefits will be provided upon hire.

  Pay

  $78,700 - $101,750 / year

  Schedule

  Full-time