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Introduction

The Supply Chain Manager leads the department to execute best-in-class planning, sourcing, and procurement for Perry facility and supports strategic global procurement activities. This is a key senior role across all aspects of strategic and tactical management of materials. This role has ownership of all aspects of inventory, material costs, and on-site logistics. The Supply Chain Manager works closely with the Production, Engineering, Quality, and Commercial teams in pursuit of continuous productivity improvement, supplier negotiation, supplier development and asset management while assuring timely delivery of materials and services.

Key Responsibilities

• Accountable for all planning, sourcing, and purchasing functions within the facility, developing strategies to improve On Time performance of material availability, and works with suppliers on cost and supply strategies.
• Manages a team of 8-12 direct reports. Leads the functional people agenda to build robust succession plans, rich SCM talent pools and promote the benefit and value of an integrated functional team.
• Responsible for optimization of inventory to improve cash position of the business.
• Drives improvements in the site’s SIOP process to deliver accurate output, capacity, and financial plans, in line with customer and business expectations regarding cashflow, revenue and profit.
• Identifies and evaluates supply chain challenges faced by the business and within the industry, and takes action to mitigate risks and develops opportunities, such as ensuring supplies can be obtained from multiple sources or produced through alternative facilities.
• Ensures purchasing policies, guidelines, and commercial compliance are in place and updated when required and works collaboratively with teams (i.e. Internal Audit, Health/Safety/Environmental, and Sustainability, etc.) across the business to build robust internal procedures.
• Leads and influences the deployment and use of ERP software to support effective planning, inventory management, logistics and distribution. Establish accurate end-to-end visibility of the value chain.
• Ensures a deep collaboration with the Finance team to support forecasting and budgeting activities throughout the planning cycle.
• Works internally with cross functional teams to improve performance, providing transparent KPIs and uses lean tools to establish improvement plans.
• Collaborates with colleagues across TT sites to establish joint purchasing strategies to leverage cost/delivery & availability.
• This role is both strategic and sometimes hands-on, helping the team through difficult supply challenges and working closely with customers, to ensure internal and external customers’ requirements are met.

Core Requirements

• Leadership experience in a similar role, ideally within the Electronics sector.
• Ability to clearly articulate a challenge and set plans in place to contain/improve and to develop and grow the talent within the supply chain organization.
• Strong people management skills (communication, emotional intelligence, delegation, conflict resolution, coaching, adaptability, & decision making). Is transparent and is a team player.
• Competent in commercial negotiation and can lead discussions with suppliers and can hold ground with customers.
• Examples of significant improvement in supply chain performance, team building and inventory management through career to date.
• Ability to influence at all levels with excellent communication skills.

Desireable Skills and Experience
 

• Bachelor’s Degree
• A deep knowledge of Supply Chain management with the ability to think logically in a fast-changing environment.
• 8 years Supply Chain experience with at least 5 years’ experience leading (directly or indirectly) a planning/purchasing/supply chain organization.
• Experience with SIOP (also known as S&OP or Sales, (Inventory,) and Operations Planning) for forward-looking business planning.
• Strong people management skills and experience. Ability to motivate and lead groups and individuals.
• Demonstrated track record of managing change. An advocate for continuous improvement, never satisfied with the status quo. Creative and strategic thinking and planning
• Solid understanding and experience with ERP systems and understands requirements of MRP.
• Experience using systems data to leverage automation to improve team and process productivity.

Communicates well at all levels within an organization and with suppliers and customers

Business thinking: The ability to understand and influence the business strategy and goals. Be adept at developing and deploying solutions through a matrixed structure. The capability to interpret regulations and to determine practical and effective methods of compliance. Takes responsibility for driving supply chain related initiatives through to completion, taking a hands-on approach to ensure success.

Communicating: Strong written and verbal communication skills coupled with strong interpersonal skills. Ability to communicate effectively and with credibility to external parties, internal stakeholders, and customers at all levels.

Collaborating: A propensity to build relationships across the business and gain the confidence and trust of key stakeholders. Build positive working relationships with key suppliers and be proactive in managing performance.

Decision making: The ability to investigate and quickly resolve problems from strategic impacts through to operational tactics.

Developing self and others: An interest in deepening your professional knowledge across the SC discipline. Demonstrate energy and enthusiasm and a willingness to share your knowledge and experience with others (including senior partners). Appropriate professional qualifications, experience, and networks commensurate with the role.

Innovating and change: A natural tendency to innovate, challenge the status quo appropriately and consult with others to improve business performance and profitability.

Solving Technology Challenges for a Sustainable World

We want the very best people in our TT family across the globe – so we welcome applications from everyone, to celebrate a diverse mix of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and you can rest assured that TT Electronics takes positive steps to ensure we are an inclusive business, that will welcome and support you, from your initial application to wherever your career takes you! Please get in touch if you’d like to discuss any reasonable adjustments to your application, in order that we can accommodate and support you in the process. If you want to work for a company where who you are is valued and respected, we’d love to hear from you.  

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