Global Supply Chain Manager - Healthcare

DuPont•Wimington, DE

About The Position

At DuPont, our purpose is to empower the world with essential innovations to thrive. We work on things that matter. Whether it’s providing clean water to more than a billion people on the planet, producing materials that are essential in everyday technology devices from smartphones to electric vehicles, or protecting workers around the world. Discover the many reasons the world’s most talented people are choosing to work at DuPont. Why Join Us | DuPont Careers Global Supply Chain Manager - Healthcare The Global Supply Chain Manager will lead and manage activities of supply chain professionals for the Healthcare business. They provide leadership to define, implement, and optimize the supply chain strategies and objectives in support of business strategies and objectives. They are responsible for monitoring the effectiveness of the global supply chain resources and activities with respect to service, cost, and investment, and for developing and executing appropriate tactics to ensure performance targets are achieved. This role will coordinate supply chain improvement activities in all aspects of the Source-Plan-Make-Deliver-Return space for the Healthcare supply chain activities, and drive standardization, simplification, and speed across the global supply chain. The Supply Chain Manager is expected to work collaboratively with appropriate manufacturing leadership to ensure effectiveness, efficiency, and costs are appropriately considered as part of planning and executing the end-to-end supply chain strategy. This role is ultimately accountable for providing leadership to ensure global customer needs are met, and that the supply chain resources support execution of the overall global supply chain plans and strategies. The Supply Chain Manager also works with purchasing to insure balance of inventory, supply, and cost of raw materials.

Requirements

BS/BA Supply Chain, business, or technical field is required.
15+ years of supply chain experience required
Previous Leadership experience required
Strong leadership and collaboration skills required.
SAP/APO/OMP competency required (can obtain on the job- 3 day overview minimum) needed.

Nice To Haves

Global supply chain experience (leadership role or significant interface as part of teams, leading teams, working cross-cultures) preferred.
Six Sigma Green Belt certification required; Six Sigma Black Belt, and/or Champion preferred.
APICS CPIM or CSCP Certification required.
Lean Practitioner preferred (minimum requirement is Lean overview course).

Responsibilities

Develops, integrates, and executes the supply chain strategy and plan in support of the business and functional strategies/COTs, and meets customer needs through integrated processes, systems and use of technology while balancing inventory, service levels and overall costs to serve.
Establishes the supply chain performance targets and evaluates actual performance in support of business and functional strategies.
Balances the risks associated with the supply chain and current plans and the options and contingencies to mitigate them.
Represents the supply chain capabilities for the short (0 – 3 months), mid (3 – 18 months) and long-term (5-year plan) horizons.
Identifies the appropriate models necessary for supply chain optimization and recommends actions to the Business team.
Manages the activities, performance, development, and capabilities of the Supply Chain Professionals needed to support the supply chain and associated activities.
Optimizes total delivered cost by balancing the impact of the manufacturing location on sourcing, logistics, and manufacturing costs.
Works with sourcing and logistics organizations to provide forecasts and key cost optimization opportunities.
Performs required SOX controls and establishes remediation plans for any controls that are not effective.
Forecasts, analyzes and develops improvement plans for Fixed and Variable Finished Product Distribution Expense (FPDE) and Financial Inventory Days Supply (IDS) and Non-Productive Inventory (NPI).
Reports End to End Supply Chain metrics.
Leads integration and cross functional communication of the supply chain plans.
Key interfaces include: Integrated Operations Leader, Business Leadership, Sourcing, Logistics, Manufacturing, Regional Sales & Marketing/Demand, Customer Service, etc.
Defines, prioritizes and manages Lean/Six Sigma project activities in pursuit of supply chain improvement.
Builds and ensures capability and leveragability in supply chain processes and best practices and their execution across all businesses and functions globally.
Manages raw materials, semi-finished and finished goods distribution and inventory plans.
With the Demand Manager and Customer Service, defines and communicates order acceptance and handling policies that balance customer requirements with supply chain capabilities.
Works as an integral leader in the IBP process.
Leads the appropriate portions of the monthly Supply Review.
Develops and maintains policies and procedures for safety stock, lead time, MTO / ATO / MTS strategies, consignment stock, schedule changes and appropriate approvals.
Meets customer delivery requirements within policies / procedures and compliance with regulatory and export control.
Owns the integrity of data in applicable systems.