Supply Chain Director

About the Role

Rheo is looking for a Director of Supply Chain to own planning, sourcing, warehouse, and logistics across both of our divisions — Equipment (engineer-to-order capital systems with some standard products) and SUT (repetitive production of single-use technologies). Reporting to the COO, you'll lead the buyer/planner and warehouse/shipping teams and own the strategic side: supplier partnerships, risk governance, and market intelligence that protect the company as it grows. This is a build role with an entrepreneurial mindset, requiring someone who can put real planning structure and discipline in place while keeping material moving.

Responsibilities

• Own supplier selection, qualification, and performance across both divisions, holding suppliers to cost, quality, and lead-time commitments
• Translate Equipment project schedules and SUT production plans into material requirements, purchase timing, and lead-time buffers
• Own inventory strategy across two demand profiles, minimizing aging and obsolete stock while protecting on-time-in-full delivery
• Own warehouse operations, inventory accuracy, and outbound shipment execution — disciplined cycle counting, location/lot control, and ERP transaction integrity in Epicor Kinetic
• Own and continuously improve a managed freight program — carrier contracts, consolidation, mode selection — to cut expedited shipping and keep freight spend in line with revenue growth
• Own a formal supply risk register, mitigating single-source and long-lead-time exposure through contingency, dual-sourcing, nearshoring, and alternate qualified sources
• Build and grow strategic, multi-year supplier relationships, and maintain the market intelligence that surfaces risk and opportunity early
• Partner with the Directors of Manufacturing on material release timing, work-order readiness, and recovery when materials are at risk
• Partner with the Director of Quality on incoming inspection, supplier documentation (CoC, CoA, BoL), DMR compliance, and supplier-caused nonconformances
• Feed lead-time, constraint, and sourcing inputs to PMO and Engineering during design, and into project and enterprise capacity planning
• Partner with Manufacturing and Facilities on warehouse layout, racking, and material handling — planning space and capital ahead of demand
• Lead, develop, and hold accountable the buyer/planner and warehouse/shipping teams, and partner with HR on hiring and onboarding as the team scales
• Report cost performance, savings pipeline, and price/inflation exposure to the COO and Finance on a recurring cadence

What Success Looks Like

• Materials never cause a project or production-run slip — fabrication, assembly, and SUT production stay on schedule
• The warehouse runs with high inventory accuracy and on-time outbound shipment, and scales ahead of demand
• Freight and direct-material costs are actively managed, with a sustained savings track record
• Supply risk is identified and managed proactively — not discovered through a shortage or a missed schedule
• Supply Chain is a predictable, data-driven partner to Manufacturing, Engineering, PMO, and Quality, with a buyer/planner team that grows with the business

Qualifications

Core Values

• Initiative — instinct for taking action to improve, solve, and deliver
• Collaboration — proactive communication with your stakeholders
• Competence — ability to do your job well
• Reliability — persistent follow-through on commitments
• Bold Humility — courage to speak, act, and listen without arrogance

Experience

• Supply chain or procurement leadership in a manufacturing environment, ideally spanning both project-based (engineer-to-order) and repetitive production demand
• Owning warehouse operations and driving inventory accuracy
• Managing single-source and long-lead-time material risk in a quality- or regulation-sensitive setting
• Building strategic supplier relationships and a formal supply risk governance practice

Education & Technical Skills

• Bachelor's degree required; supply chain management, business, engineering, or an operations discipline strongly preferred
• Proficiency with an ERP system (Epicor Kinetic preferred) and Microsoft 365
• Strong analytical and negotiation skills — you turn spend and supplier data into action

How You Work

• Entrepreneurial — you're energized by owning the buildout of a scaling department
• Hands-on and proactive — you build credibility with suppliers, buyers/planners, and internal stakeholders alike

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in pharmaceutical, life-sciences, or other regulated capital equipment and/or single-use/disposables manufacturing
• Familiarity with engineer-to-order project procurement and long-lead capital equipment sourcing
• APICS/ASCM (CPIM, CSCP) or comparable supply chain certification
• Experience building or scaling a freight/logistics program and a formal supplier scorecard