Director of Global Supply Chain

Ingersoll Rand•Monroe, LA

3d•Remote

About The Position

The Director, Supply Chain is responsible for setting and executing the supply chain strategy for the Flow Control Solutions business to achieve customer product availability, service-level performance, working-capital targets, and operational cost objectives. The position provides senior leadership across demand planning, inventory management, product portfolio alignment, supply planning, procurement, and supply-chain risk management, partnering with commercial, operations, finance, quality, and site leaders to turn business strategy into priorities, standards, and measurable results. The role directly leads a multilayered global supply chain team and influences cross-functional teams, site leadership, and business stakeholders. It builds organizational depth and succession capability, establishes consistent operating standards, and promotes high performance across planning, scheduling, purchasing, inventory, and supplier execution. The leader also develops stakeholder relationships and leads continuous-improvement efforts to strengthen service, inventory, cost, and overall business performance. The position is remote and requires availability to travel up to 25% of the time, including for customer visits, technical-center training, and trade shows.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business Management, Engineering, or a similar technical field; a further business-related qualification is considered ideal.
At least 15 years of combined operations experience, including significant supply-chain leadership, planning, purchasing, procurement, customer-service, or materials-management experience in manufacturing.
At least 7 years of people-management experience, including leadership of multilevel teams.
Experience building high-performing teams, developing functional expertise, and developing leaders and individual contributors.
Experience working with cross-functional partners and stakeholders at multiple levels of a complex, multiregion business.
Demonstrated success driving continuous improvement and change and delivering measurable results in service, inventory, working capital, cost, and operational performance.
Experience leading strategic supply-chain initiatives across functions, sites, suppliers, and business stakeholders.
Advanced experience with ERP/MRP/APO systems.
Strong communication skills, business acumen, and organizational awareness to engage with employees, peers, executives, customers, and suppliers.
Ability to make systematic decisions that balance customer service, inventory, cost, supplier risk, and operational constraints while maintaining a broad business perspective.
Extensive knowledge of end-to-end supply chain, including warehousing, logistics, materials management, supply planning, procurement, customer service, supplier performance, and inventory management.
Knowledge and understanding of production capability and commercial demand.
Strong understanding of business demand, customer commitments, working capital, operating cost, and the financial effects of supply-chain decisions.
Ability to define, communicate, and deliver supply-chain strategy by translating strategic priorities into operating plans, governance, and measurable results.
Ability to coach managers, develop future leaders, and improve workforce performance and capability.
Understanding of plant, operational, and financial planning, including the effects of supply-chain decisions on revenue, absorption, inventory, working capital, and customer service.
Availability to travel up to 25% of the time.

Nice To Haves

Further business-related qualification in addition to the bachelor's degree.

Responsibilities

Partner with the SIOP leader and Commercial team to translate market requirements into accurate, actionable demand forecasts supporting production planning, intercompany transactions, direct-material purchasing, inventory strategy, and executive decisions.
Lead cross-functional reviews of demand, backlog, service risks, and customer commitment gaps; ensure escalation, recovery actions, and accountability.
Define, improve, and sustain supply-planning processes that support delivery performance, inventory utilization, and working-capital efficiency.
Establish and govern make-to-order, assemble-to-order, and make-to-stock strategies according to product, customer, and business needs.
Synchronize supply across sites, intercompany flows, and third-party suppliers, resolving demand-and-supply imbalances while considering lead times, variability, capacity, supplier capability, and customer priorities.
Oversee supply for items used to manufacture finished goods, distributed products, subcontracting, and outsourcing across the Flow Control Solutions division.
Align supply priorities with revenue, absorption, inventory, and service targets by period.
Lead cross-functional teams to address root causes of supply-chain inefficiencies, material constraints, excess inventory, and stockouts, and establish sustainable corrective actions and governance.
Establish and govern key performance measures, benchmarking, operating reviews, and continuous-improvement initiatives for service, inventory, cost, supplier performance, and process quality.
Lead supply-chain risk management by identifying risks affecting supply, manufacturing, delivery, quality, and customer demand; develop mitigation plans, escalation paths, and preventive actions.
Develop direct reports and broader supply-chain talent through clear expectations, coaching, succession planning, and connection of team work to business results.
Sponsor and lead strategic supply-chain projects that improve the global organization, cross-site synchronization, core-process standardization, and measurable business impact.