Director, Manufacturing Supply Chain

Henry Schein•Lompoc, CA

About The Position

The Director, Manufacturing Supply Chain leads inventory planning, purchasing, supplier management, and production planning across a network of brands, manufacturing campuses, and interconnected sites. The role directs the people and processes for these functions and defines, deploys, and enforces a standardized, multi-brand operating model that connects site-level execution to enterprise strategy. The model is intended to establish common planning standards, shared supplier strategies, and a unified network view of demand, capacity, and inventory. The role balances execution of current supply chain processes across the manufacturing and supply network with transformation toward standardized, simplified, and more efficient ways of working. It leads teams, establishes planning and inventory policies, manages purchasing and supplier relationships, oversees production planning and scheduling, and develops shared metrics and visibility across brands and sites. The Director partners with brand leadership and functions including Commercial, Finance, Quality, Engineering, Operations, Distribution, IT, ERP owners, Strategic Sourcing, and other manufacturing campuses. The position leads process transformation and supports compliance with applicable medical-device quality and regulatory requirements, including FDA QMSR (21 CFR Part 820), ISO 13485:2016, and EU MDR 2017/745. The work takes place in office and manufacturing environments, with regular time on the production floor. The role requires compliance with site safety, gowning, and PPE requirements and travel of up to 25% to manufacturing sites, suppliers, and peer campuses, including internationally.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Operations Management, Business, or a related field.
At least 10 years of progressive manufacturing supply chain experience, including inventory planning, purchasing, supplier management, and production planning and scheduling.
At least 5 years leading managers and multifunctional teams.
Proven success leading process standardization or transformation across multiple sites, brands, or business units.
Demonstrated experience managing supplier relationships, supplier scorecards, and alternate-sourcing programs.
Experience in a regulated manufacturing environment.
Strong knowledge of MRP/ERP planning, S&OP, inventory optimization, and capacity planning.
Proven ability to define KPIs, build dashboards, and use data to drive decisions.
Excellent communication skills with audiences ranging from shop-floor teams to executive leadership.
Ability to follow site safety, gowning, and PPE requirements and travel up to 25% to manufacturing sites, suppliers, and peer campuses, including internationally.

Nice To Haves

Medical-device manufacturing experience.
ASCM certification (CPIM or CSCP) and/or Lean Six Sigma Green or Black Belt.
Experience with Infor Distribution A+ or a comparable ERP, as well as MES, WMS, and advanced planning systems.
Working knowledge of FDA QMSR, ISO 13485:2016, and EU MDR requirements for purchasing, supplier controls, and traceability.
Experience in multi-brand or post-acquisition integration environments.
Proficiency with analytics tools such as Power BI, SQL, and advanced Excel.

Responsibilities

Build, lead, and develop planners, buyers, production schedulers, and inventory control professionals supporting multiple brands.
Define the organizational structure, roles, and responsibilities for a standardized multi-brand planning model; set expectations, coach leaders, develop talent, and build succession for critical roles.
Promote accountability, standard work, collaboration, and data-driven decision-making.
Design, deploy, and sustain standardized planning and inventory management across brands and manufacturing locations.
Establish common planning policies, including planning parameters, lot sizing, safety-stock methodology, and inventory segmentation.
Harmonize master data standards for items, bills of materials, routings, lead times, and vendors, and partner with IT and ERP owners on system configuration.
Own planning for raw materials, components, work-in-process, and finished goods; lead the supply side of S&OP and run the S&OE cadence.
Balance service levels, inventory investment, and working capital against inventory targets; manage excess, obsolete, and shelf-life inventory risk and improve inventory accuracy through cycle counting and root-cause analysis.
Lead direct-materials purchasing, including order placement, expediting, and delivery performance; establish standardized purchasing processes and approval controls.
Partner with Strategic Sourcing on contracts, pricing, and lead-time commitments, and own tactical purchasing execution.
Build and lead a supplier relationship management program, segmenting suppliers by spend, criticality, and risk.
Conduct structured business reviews with key suppliers on performance, capacity, cost, quality, and improvement plans; promote collaborative planning with strategic suppliers.
Partner with Quality on supplier corrective actions and development programs, and resolve supply disruptions through supplier relationships and escalation paths.
Define and deploy standardized supplier scorecards across brands and sites; report supplier OTIF, lead-time adherence and trends, quality, purchase price variance, and responsiveness.
Use supplier scorecard results to drive reviews, improvement plans, sourcing decisions, and leadership visibility into supplier trends and risk.
Identify single-source, sole-source, long-lead-time, and capacity-constrained materials; maintain a supply risk register and lead alternate- and dual-sourcing strategies with Strategic Sourcing, Engineering, and Quality.
Coordinate qualification of alternate suppliers and materials through supplier qualification and change-control processes; establish mitigation plans, including strategic buffers and safety stock.
Own production planning and floor scheduling across multiple manufacturing processes; develop capacity plans for labor, equipment, and work centers and maintain a firm scheduling horizon.
Partner daily with site operations leaders to resolve constraints, sequence work, and improve schedule attainment; reduce changeovers, expedites, and fragmented work orders.
Support new product introductions, product transfers, and end-of-life transitions with integrated material and capacity plans.
Partner with business and functional leaders to align supply chain plans with business strategy, translate priorities into roadmaps and investment cases, and present risks, trade-offs, and recommendations to executive leadership.
Collaborate with supply chain leaders at other manufacturing campuses to align processes and share best practices.
Define and govern standardized KPIs, common data definitions, and a single source of truth for supply chain performance; deliver tiered dashboards for daily floor metrics and monthly executive reviews.
Monitor measures including inventory turns, days of supply, excess and obsolete inventory, customer fill rate, backorders, schedule attainment, forecast accuracy, supplier OTIF, purchase price variance, and inventory accuracy.
Lead network transformation of planning, purchasing, supplier management, and scheduling processes, including inventory balancing and production scheduling across locations.
Map current-state processes, remove waste and variation, and deploy standardized future-state processes with documented standard work and training.
Apply Lean, Six Sigma, and change-management methods to drive adoption and sustain results; evaluate and implement planning, analytics, and scheduling tools.
Ensure supply chain processes comply with applicable FDA QMSR, ISO 13485:2016, and EU MDR requirements, including purchasing controls, supplier controls, and traceability.
Own supply chain procedures and records within the quality management system and support audits and inspections.
Lead or support corrective and preventive actions and nonconformance investigations related to supply chain.