Supply Chain Business Manager 4

Supply Chain Business Manager

Client: Global Supplier Company

12 month contract

Hybrid schedule, 3x/week onsite in Tualatin, OR

Required Skills/Experience:

• 5+ years of experience managing global factories and various commodities
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills including macros, pivot tables, data lookup/indexing, dashboards
• ERP System experience, ideally SAP
• Strong problem-solving and supplier management skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Bachelors Degree
• Must be willing and able to travel up to 10% (including domestic and international), mostly domestic travel for internal meetings

Desired Skills/Experience (not required):

• Bachelors Degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, or Engineering

As a Supply Chain Business Manager, you will help drive delivery and supplier operational excellence within a global supply chain. This role is within the Supply Chain Commodity team and is instrumental in helping Supply Chain navigate through record ramps and other operational complexities thrown our way. In this position, you will help manage global factories and have responsibility for multiple suppliers within various commodities.

What You'll Do:

• Plans, schedules and monitors the movement of materials through the production cycle to determine required materials purchases.
• Defines metrics and monitor supplier performance against these expectations to ensure continuous supplier improvement. Regularly evaluate quality and performance benchmarks, and the risks associated with the preferred supply base selection.
• Continuously working on process improvement to deploy & develop best known methods related to procurement, inventory control (e.g., JIT, Kanban, min/max) & manufacturing strategies.
• Established goals with supplier to ensure material delivery meet forecasted demand.
• Represents supplier business management on a cross-functional commodity teams that focuses on supply challenges, and to ensure internal/external customer needs are satisfied.
• Works with engineering and the supplier to resolve complex problem to ensure on time delivery of critical material to support customer and company requirements.
• Develops presentation, white papers, process flow charts to support continues process improvement projects.
• Works with supplier to monitors product cost preventing negative PPV and supporting cost reduction efforts.
• Drive the improvement of the suppliers' manufacturing processes to ensure product quality and on-time-delivery.