Supply Chain Manager

The Supply Chain Manager for the Perma Pure Group will be a valued contributor to the Group's Operations Leadership Team. This important role will lead a cross-site team of supply chain and work directly with production teams, cross-functionally to support sales and finance.

Essential Job Functions:

Purchasing Planning

• Lead all aspects of all Supply Chain with responsibility to day-to-day purchasing, cost management, scheduling and supplier management.
• Implements and maintains process improvements by analyzing and establishing best practices for supply and materials management.
• In collaboration with the Director of Operations, coordinates interdepartmental activity with quality assurance, manufacturing, purchasing, engineering, inventory control, and logistics.
• Ensures inventory control and accuracy is managed and maintained within the business financial guidelines and best practices.
• Responsible supplier OTD, supplier quality and material flow, including expediting, pushout or cancelling purchase orders.
• Collaborates with Product Management and Engineering on customer requests and New Product Development.

Management

• A key contributor to the Production Management team, attends, supports and contributes the team’s daily, weekly monthly meetings and KPIs goals.
• Responsible for contributions and together with the S&IOP Manager, deliver the monthly material flow to maximize the production plan to achieve maximum revenue capture and safety stock fulfillment.
• Ensure material availability for planned production orders are met using MRP tools.
• Works closely other disciplines to ensure that manufacturing bill of materials, demand, and schedule are appropriately loaded in the MRP system to facilitate the organization’s success.
• Advises Production management team of the status of purchase order deliveries, material availability to ensure production management is capable of output goals.
• Provides the leadership skills to influence, empower, and advise the staff to build effective department and foster cooperation between the various functional counterparts

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree preferred.
• Minimum 7 years of professional experience as a Supply Chain/Purchasing Management.
• Ability to learn and understand technical details and act as a subject matter expert for business processes related to order entry, order management, customer and sales reporting.
• Experience managing ERP, and other technical systems cross-functionally.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and proven ability to present to internal and external stakeholders
• Strong analytical skills and comfort with learning new technologies, systems, and applications.
• Strong and proven problem-solving skills
• Computer proficiency in Microsoft Office products (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Visio)
• Ability to train and mentor other department members.

Competencies:

• Integrity & Honesty
• Negotiator
• Planning & Organization
• Excellent Communicator
• Analytical problem solving
• Team Player
• Takes Initiative/Proactive
• Strong ERP Utilization
• Customer Focused