Supply Chain Manager

Summary

Responsible for all operations of the Materials departments. Manages and develops the team for planning for production and suppliers, the Warehouse, Customer Service, Engineering Change Coordinator and Logistics Analyst for the Cherokee locations. This function is responsible for balancing inventory, freight costs and SCM employee costs versus customer delivery performance for the local plant.

• Capacity Analysis and logistics
• Local inventory management (turn, accuracy, obsolete/excess/NCR)
• Compliance to global SCM procedures and policies
• Safety in the warehouse operations (Injury rate)
• Local releases and forecast to suppliers
• Local warehousing handling
• Local plant material flow and line feeding process
• KPI’s, Management reports and continuous improvement delivery, costs, quality and safety for the local plant
• Talent development local SCM

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Team structure
• Reports to local Vice President/General Manager
• Dotted Line to Regional Supply Chain Director
• Works directly with local production, purchasing and engineering and regional External Logistics manager, Supply Chain Engineering manager and Materials Manager
• Supervisory Responsibilities

Education And/Or Experience

• Bachelor degree with 7-8+ years’ experience in Materials & logistics, preferably in tier 1 company in the automotive
• Has experience as member of a management team
• Extensive experience in materials planning, customer service and warehousing
• Leverage experience (5s, Value Stream Management (VSM), visuals, Standard work, etc)
• Familiar with IATF16949 and ISO 14001
• Extensive experience in ERP and KPI management

Functional Competence And/Or Skills

• Strong coaching and development skills
• Analytical skills
• Confident
• Convincing
• Stress resistant (able to work under pressure)
• Team Player
• Able to build relationships and maintain at all levels
• Process oriented
• Result driven
• Customer focused
• Total VSM/Landed costs focused
• IATF 16949/ ISO14001 / ISO 45001

Responsibilities

• The IATF16949and ISO14001 responsibilities listed below are required for this position.
• Adhere to all IATF16949 (Quality) / ISO14001 (Environmental) / ISO 45001 (Health & Safety) procedures as related to the operations department function.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk and to sit; use hands to manipulate objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms.
• The employee is occasionally required to stand, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and to talk and hear.
• The employee must regularly lift up to 10 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Work Environment

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

What can you expect from us?

• Paid vacation
• Paid sick time
• Healthcare, dental, prescription drug insurance plans
• Company paid and voluntary life insurance plans
• Disability benefits

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