Position Summary
The Director of Supply Chain will manage ASP Global replenishment supply chain activities to include all aspects of forecasting, purchasing, planning, scheduling, inventory control, and associated master data. This role will design and execute strategic plans, KPIs, ROI and inventory control to meet company’s short-term and long-term supply chain replenishment management and purchasing/production control requirements.
The position reports to the Chief Operating Officer.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the purchasing supply chain team while creating an environment of continuous improvement.
- Ownership of creating, maintaining, and communicating product supply purchasing and execution plans within the organization and with external product supply partners.
- Define objectives and support to ensure on-time delivery while providing day-to-day guidance to ensure operational execution and excellence.
- Ownership of inventory demand management to include managing inventory and establish controls to ensure company is operating at the highest level of performance based on key performance metrics
- Develop strategies to minimize supply chain risk, while maximizing inventory turns. Ensures the timely and accurate flow of product information between sales, finance, and the supply chain teams so that promotions, replenishment, and product deletions are successfully managed and executed.
- Manage and expedite the inventory ordering process from issuing purchase orders and releases, to ensuring the on-time arrival and receipt of products.
- Ownership of stocking strategy potentially across multiple warehouse demand points.
- Manages the supply chain and product category interface with customer service and sales.
- Works closely with sales to develop accurate and timely usage forecasts.
- Develop depletion plans to manage obsolete inventory to minimize exposure.
- Manages performance of the supply chain group through a culture of continuous improvement to exceed the established goals and objectives.
- Maintains effective supplier and customer relations.
- Ability to execute Supply Chain strategies in established ERP (P21) while identifying key business process improvement areas.
- Key objectives will be managing inventory levels, planning and executing replenishment, establishing seasonal finished goods supply plans while meeting and exceeding customer expectations for service, quality, and cost.
- Work with sales and customer service teams to onboard new business while creating visibility to current business inventories and replenishment pipelines.
- Participate in cross functional project teams
- Support financial budgeting and reporting for product acquisition, supply, and inventory valuation
- Work with finance teams to establish business case(s) for investment in new or existing product categories
- Assists with maintaining and improving ERP and MRP business systems while continuously improving his/her teams’ tools to ensure progress towards a world class procurement organization
- Drive collaboration with the quality and regulatory department to ensure all suppliers are adhering to established quality standards while meeting regulatory requirements.
- Issue and manage procurement scorecards and charge backs while working closely with sourcing teams to establish a world class supplier base
- Define and maintain comprehensive KPI’s and success factors for supply replenishment (e.g., inventory availability, lead time, stock turns, service levels, and E&O reporting) for the CEO and CFO while demonstrating performance levels and providing insight for continuous improvement.
- Develop and implement business processes that make problems visible while also separating acute from chronic issues for resolution.
- Implement a plan, do, check, and adjust (PDCA) cycle to address chronic issues ensuring corrective action.
- Oversee weekly/monthly inventory review of stock levels, supply risk and inventory aging and determine actions to minimize aging and destruction and maximize on-time deliveries
- Create an environment of teamwork and inclusion by modeling ASP core values.
Competencies
To perform this job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:
- Coaching and Development - Works to improve and reinforce performance of others. Takes responsibility for one’s direct reports’ performance by setting clear goals and expectations, tracking progress against the goals, ensuring constructive feedback and addressing performance problems and issues promptly. Works with, coaches, and supports direct reports in developing knowledge, skills, and abilities in the interest of performance improvement and employee’s career development.
- Discernment/Judgement - Makes decisions authoritatively and wisely, after adequately contemplating various available courses of action.
- Collaborative Leadership - Promotes and generates cooperation among one’s peers in leadership to achieve a collective outcome; fosters the development of a common vision and fully participates in creating a unified leadership team that get results.
- Influence - Asserts own ideas and persuades others, gaining support and commitment from others; mobilizes people to take action, using creative approaches to motivate others to meet corporate goals.
- Conflict Management - Brings substantial conflicts and disagreements into the open and attempts to manage them collaboratively, building consensus, keeping the best interests of the organization in mind, not only one’s own interest.