Supply Chain Manager

Supply Chain Manager

The Supply Chain Manager leads purchasing, planning, warehouse, and shipping and receiving for CCS. The position is accountable for material being available to build to the schedule, for inventory being accurate and sized to the business, for supplier performance and cost, and for the development of the people in the function.

This is a build role. CCS is a long established manufacturer moving quickly to a new standard of performance, and the supply chain function is being rebuilt as part of that work. The position is expected to establish vision, policy, standard work, and measures where they do not exist today, and to raise the capability of the function rather than to administer it as it currently runs.

Due to the complex nature of the work, the position exercises independent judgment in sourcing strategy, inventory and planning policy, supplier selection and escalation, staffing and organization decisions within approved structure, and the tradeoffs between cost, schedule, and risk that surface daily in a low volume, high mix, regulated environment.

The first year of this position is hands on. The Supply Chain Manager is expected to work directly alongside the team, learn the products, the supply base, and the system in detail, stabilize daily execution, and earn credibility through visible ownership of the hardest problems in the function.

The measure of success after that is different. By the end of the first year the position is expected to have established policy, standard work, measures, and a management cadence that hold without constant intervention, and to have developed the people who run them. This role is judged by whether the function performs to standard when the Supply Chain Manager is not in the middle of it, including a named and developing successor for each critical position.

The position leads through the team. It sets direction, standard, and priority, removes obstacles, coaches judgment, and delegates real authority with real accountability attached. It does not hold decisions that belong to the team, and it does not build a function that depends on one person.

Key responsibilities include:

• Material Availability and Planning
• Building the Function
• Sourcing, Cost and Supplier Performance
• Inventory and Working Capital
• Warehouse, Shipping and Receiving Operations
• Leadership and Development
• Compliance and Continuous Improvement

Competencies include:

1. Material Availability Ownership
2. Sourcing and Cost Strategy
3. Inventory and Working Capital Management
4. Building the Function
5. Leading Through the Team
6. Change Leadership and Judgment
7. Attendance
8. Culture
9. Safety
10. Compliance

Skills and requirements include:

• Must be a US Person as defined by ITAR
• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or a related field required. MBA preferred.
• Nine or more years of progressive supply chain experience in manufacturing, including four or more years leading a team.
• Demonstrated results in on time delivery, material cost reduction, inventory reduction, and inventory accuracy.
• Demonstrated experience building or rebuilding a function, including establishing process, policy, and standard work where little existed, and sustaining the result after implementation.
• Demonstrated record of developing people into greater responsibility, including successors who took over work the candidate previously performed.
• Strong MRP knowledge, including planning parameter design and data integrity practice.
• Experience in a low volume, high mix environment. Aerospace, defense, or another regulated industry strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of AS9100 or ISO 9001, ITAR, EAR, and DFARS requirements as they apply to purchasing and material control.
• Demonstrated negotiation and contract experience with suppliers.
• Advanced Excel and strong analytical capability. Power BI or comparable reporting experience preferred.
• APICS CPIM, CSCP, or ISM CPSM certification preferred.

Physical requirements include:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is continuously required to sit, stand, use hands and fingers, walk, carry, climb, bend, reach, turn, twist, push, and pull, talk or hear, and move within the areas of the facilities and parking lots. A computer is used to access, input, and retrieve data. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust and focus.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Custom Control Sensors, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is the policy of CCS to provide equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. The policy not to discriminate includes, but is not limited to, advertising for positions, recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, rates of pay, discipline and termination.