Supply Chain Manager Jobs

The Supply Chain Manager is responsible for materials planning and inventory management for the Canadian operations. In this leadership role, the Supply Chain Manager will lead a team of supply chain professionals to plan the on-time delivery of materials required for production. Further, this role will drive the inventory management performance of the plant, specific to safety stocks, targeted inventory reduction, and inventory accuracy.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with production teams to ensure effective production planning and scheduling based on customer demand, capacity constraints, and inventory levels.
• Mitigates potential inventory risks that include engineering changes, slow moving, excess etc
• Focuses on training and skill development of supply chain team to ensure effective ERP system utilization.
• Develop and maintain supply chain performance dashboards, metrics, and reports to monitor key performance indicators and identify areas for improvement.
• Ensures periodic review of ERP/MRP system parameters to maintain required safety stock levels that are subject to changes due to customer demand and supplier lead time variations.
• Conduct root cause analyses, implement corrective actions, and drive continuous improvement initiatives across the supply chain, including process optimization, cost reduction, and lead time reduction.
• Reviews materials and inventory planning processes to drive continuous improvements
• Establishes daily KPIs to monitor and manage on-time material availability and inventory performance.
• Ensures inventory cycle counting best practices are followed.
• Responsible for materials planning and inventory management for the Canadian operations
• Actively participant in the global material councils
• Communicates supply chain risks to key stakeholders including sales, finance and sourcing teams.
• Develops advance data analytics and reporting capabilities for real-time information management specific to forecasting & replenishment, inventory performance etc.
• Responsible for developing and implementing best practices as it relates to materials forecasting, safety stock management, inventory optimization and supply planning.
• Measures supplier on-time delivery performance to assess and communicate potential supply risks.
• Working alongside the Director of Global Supply Chain, supports the development and implementation of materials and inventory management best practices across the enterprise.
• Identify and address bottlenecks, optimize production processes, and implement lean manufacturing principles to increase efficiency and reduce lead times.

Qualifications & Experiences:

• Demonstrated hands-on experience in materials planning and inventory management in an operations environment with high utilization of MRP/ERP capabilities
• 15 years of materials planning and inventory management experiences ideally in an industrial/automotive manufacturing environment
• Very good understanding of SIOP processes
• Must have hands on materials planning and inventory management experiences in a manufacturing ERP system, ideally LN or similar such as SAP, CMS etc.
• Ensures inventory management practices are consistent with company’s inventory policy. Conducts monthly inventory performance to reduce and eliminate excess and obsolescence.
• Have experience in modernizing materials planning and inventory management processes in an ERP system environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain management, business, finance, supply chain or equivalent.
• Strong negotiation and vendor management skills.
• Knowledge of lean manufacturing principles and experience in implementing process improvement initiatives.
• Reviews safety stocks and consignment stock plans and parameters to ensure on-time material availability
• Leadership experience in developing high performing materials and inventory planning teams.
• Regularly conducts demand reviews to rebalance safety stock requirements and also to develop and improve forecasts to suppliers and ensure on-time material availability