Kaiser Permanenteposted 26 days ago
Full-time • Manager
Santa Clara, CA
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About the position

Manages team applying best standards and practices in Supply Chain and Logistics and oversees team compliance to relevant guidelines. Ensures the resolution of inventory, asset, and vendor/suppliers deficiencies. Approves and guides the implementation of recommendations suggested to streamline current systems to optimize, maintain, and transform current processes, and approves research plans to make innovative strategies to streamline new/existing business operating models according to supply chain future state. Facilitates actions based on results from the audits of suppliers, conducts corrective actions based on interpreting needs identified from audits, and facilitates business reviews. Supervises implementation of strategic decision making based on results on utilization, quality, inventory levels, and courier routes for projects, while assessing customer satisfaction levels.

Responsibilities

  • Provides developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships.
  • Solicits and acts on performance feedback; works closely with employees to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to drive performance improvement.
  • Pursues professional growth; develops and provides training and development to talent for growth opportunities; supports execution of performance management guidelines and expectations.
  • Leads, adapts, implements, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices, processes, and industry trends.
  • Fosters open dialogue amongst team members, engages, motivates, and promotes collaboration within and across teams.
  • Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance, and scope; encourages development and consideration of options in decision making.
  • Manages designated work unit or team by translating business plans into tactical action items; oversees the completion of work assignments and identifies opportunities for improvement.
  • Ensures all policies and procedures are followed; aligns team efforts; builds accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results.
  • Determines and ensures processes and methodologies are implemented; resolves escalated issues as appropriate; sets standards and measures progress.
  • Fosters the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; obtains and distributes resources.
  • Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and addresses improvement opportunities; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly.
  • Ensures long-term asset accounting by guiding and providing support for the asset approval, transfer, and disposal processes.
  • Leads the maintenance dispositions in the accounting system; assists the development of policies and compliance procedures that achieve accountability.
  • Ensures ongoing quality customer services by managing the resolution of customer issues pertaining to vendors/suppliers reporting, billing, and merchandise.
  • Oversees the resolution of backorder problems, delivery delays, repairs, monitoring route changes, and returns.
  • Ensures adequate levels of inventory are maintained by managing the resolution of the receipt and distribution of inventory.
  • Reports results from quantitative/qualitative analyses to senior leaders to help them forecast demand to minimize obsolescence or expiration.
  • Drives the application of strategies for maintaining automated inventory and ordering systems to support inventory reconciliation.
  • Maintains and improves supply chain and operations by managing complex and long-term activities to optimize, maintain, and transform current processes.
  • Ensures purchasing strategy is consistent with the overall national sourcing strategy by managing the processing of purchase requests.
  • Develops and implements processes for purchase standardization, quality, amounts, or equivalency.
  • Maintains accountability for the compliance with state and federal regulations, and company policy/procedures pertaining to purchasing, inventory management, and distribution.
  • Ensures suppliers/vendors performance and relationships by executing long-term strategies to evaluate suppliers/vendor compliance with policies and regulations.
  • Provides technical analysis and reporting services for others by coordinating analyses and evaluating results on utilization, quality, inventory levels, and courier routes.

Requirements

  • Proven experience in supply chain management and logistics.
  • Strong leadership and team management skills.
  • Ability to analyze complex data and make strategic decisions.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Experience in vendor/supplier management and relationship building.
  • Knowledge of inventory management systems and practices.
  • Understanding of compliance regulations related to supply chain and logistics.

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience with automated inventory and ordering systems.
  • Familiarity with performance management guidelines and expectations.
  • Background in cost reduction strategies and asset management.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • health_insurance
  • dental_insurance
  • vision_insurance
  • paid_holidays
  • tuition_reimbursement
  • professional_development
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