Supply Chain Manager
ITT, Inc.
Lockport New York
Salary: Neg Per Hour
Essential Responsibilities
- Build processes to drive JIT material availability to ensure material supply meets production requirements with minimum stock levels, while optimizing cost.
- Accountable for all material
planning issues that arise, including over or under delivery and drive
immediate actions to eliminate root causes.
- Design, develop and implement
flexible supply chain processes to provide material supply risk
visibility, update safety stock levels, aid business efficiency, and drive
process improvements
- Drive implementation of lean
tools like daily Gemba management, Standard Work, kaizen’, problem
solving, Heijunka, Poka-yoke, etc.
- Maintaining supplier
performance objectives for quality, on-time delivery, lead-times, and cost
including:
- Managing the procurement of
all direct materials, indirect materials, and capital equipment
- Developing and executing
supply chain strategies to minimize inventory and lead-times
- Driving material cost
reductions annually through negotiations with suppliers and transitioning
to lower cost vendors
- Performing regular supplier
audits/visits
- Ensuring all purchasing
processes, purchase orders and contracts are following internal and
external requirements
- Managing the sourcing of new
products, obtaining of quotes, placement of purchase orders, and
resolutions to quality and delivery issues as needed to support the
business
- Managing the sale and disposal
of surplus equipment and inventory
- Manage Small Business, ITAR and
government compliance requirements and flow-downs with supply base
- Improve, Implement and Lead the
Sales Inventory & Operating Plan (SIOP):
- Warehouse and Inventory
Management responsibilities include managing the daily metrics and
processes of the warehouse. In particular, he/she will guarantee the
accuracy of the WIP, Finish goods and Raw Material base on an appropriate
cycle counts strategy.
- Will partner with the other
Operations Leaders to provide the highest customer service (OTD and Quality),
working efficiency, safety, and lowest cost.
- Manage current Supplier
performance (quality, delivery, inventory & lead times)
- Accountable for Site specific
part availability, material cost, total inventory, & team
productivity.
- Accountable for driving material
cost savings via SKU rationalization, Supplier Rationalization, Best Cost
Country sourcing, VAVE, etc.
- Drive LTA negotiations with key
Suppliers (cost, rebates, payment terms, VMI, consignment, etc)
- Develop sourcing strategies for
key commodities including make vs buy recommendations
Position Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business or relevant discipline
- 7+ years of experience managing
complex supply chain operations, preferably in a low volume/high-mix
business
- 10+ years of experience in a
manufacturing environment strongly preferred
- Extensive negotiation
experience
- Enthusiastic and proactive
approach
- Strong leadership/people
management and development experience
- CPM/CPPM certification
preferred but not required
- Six Sigma/Black Belt-Green Belt
and Kaizen experience preferred
- Experience with lean
concepts/tools such as VSM, JIT, Kanban, Daily Management, Heijinka,
kaizen, etc.
- Good written, oral and
presentation skills(communication)
- Problem solving and solid
business decision making skills
- Proficient with Microsoft
Office applications (Excel, Word, etc.)
- Good team player with passion, customer focus, a demonstrated sense of urgency to resolve conflicts as they arise, & the ability to handle multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Job Overview
Posted Date: 27 Nov 2023
Location: Lockport New York
Salary: Neg Per Hour
Company Information
Our purpose – We Solve It – is why we exist as a company. We are expert engineers, innovators and problem solvers. We convert unique ideas into sophisticated solutions that matter.
Name: ITT, Inc.
Web: https://www.itt.com/