Sr Manager, Operational Material Management (Stanford, CT / Ontario, CA)

Philips•Stamford, CT

2d•$114,000 - $196,000•Onsite

About The Position

Sr Manager, Operational Material Management (Stanford, CT / Ontario, CA) Leads a small material planning and resource management team (2 - 3 people), this role provides strategic guidance and implements policies to optimize operational efficiency and ensure timely delivery. Your role: Leads material planning, heads material resource planning software data setup and maintenance, leads product life cycles, designs supplier-managed and owned inventories, and acts as a central contact and coordination point for global and key x-site suppliers while monitoring quality standards, targets, and methodologies for improving material planning processes, and instills a quality-oriented mindset across operations to ensure consistent adherence to high standards throughout all facets of the organization's activities. Monitors processes, diligently manages and scrutinizes to pinpoint the underlying causes of problems or inefficiencies and enables targeted interventions to minimize waste and enhance productivity and identifies highly complex material shortage risks across suppliers, leads return orders, designs risk mitigation strategies, ensures efficient operations within n-tier supplier networks, leads x-functional shortage review meeting and manages global shortage issues. Manages talent across the team, while driving employee selection, performance management, compensation management, career development, and ensuring effective operational management. Detects KPI trends, analyzes internal and external data, identifies improvement opportunities throughout the end-to-end supply chain, generates and implements value-adding solutions with a focus on customer satisfaction. You're the right fit if: You’ve acquired a minimum 10 years of experience with Bachelor's in areas such as Material Planning, Supply Chain Management or equivalent. Your skills include proven abilities to lead teams/projects, excellent stakeholder management across supply planning, S&OP, Factory as well as supplier management skills, proficient with SAP and Power BI. You have a bachelor's / master's degree in business economics, Supply Chain Management, Operations Research, Data Analysis and Statistics, Business Analytics or equivalent. You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position . You’re an effective communicator, proactive and great at building long-term relationship with customers and well organized. How we work together We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations. This is an office role. About Philips We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others. Learn more about our business . Discover our rich and exciting history. Learn more about our purpose. Learn more about our culture.

Requirements

Minimum 10 years of experience with Bachelor's in areas such as Material Planning, Supply Chain Management or equivalent
Proven abilities to lead teams/projects
Excellent stakeholder management across supply planning, S&OP, Factory as well as supplier management skills
Proficient with SAP and Power BI
Bachelor's / master's degree in business economics, Supply Chain Management, Operations Research, Data Analysis and Statistics, Business Analytics or equivalent
Must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position
Effective communicator, proactive and great at building long-term relationship with customers and well organized

Responsibilities

Leads material planning
Heads material resource planning software data setup and maintenance
Leads product life cycles
Designs supplier-managed and owned inventories
Acts as a central contact and coordination point for global and key x-site suppliers while monitoring quality standards, targets, and methodologies for improving material planning processes, and instills a quality-oriented mindset across operations to ensure consistent adherence to high standards throughout all facets of the organization's activities
Monitors processes, diligently manages and scrutinizes to pinpoint the underlying causes of problems or inefficiencies and enables targeted interventions to minimize waste and enhance productivity and identifies highly complex material shortage risks across suppliers
Leads return orders
Designs risk mitigation strategies
Ensures efficient operations within n-tier supplier networks
Leads x-functional shortage review meeting and manages global shortage issues
Manages talent across the team, while driving employee selection, performance management, compensation management, career development, and ensuring effective operational management
Detects KPI trends
Analyzes internal and external data
Identifies improvement opportunities throughout the end-to-end supply chain
Generates and implements value-adding solutions with a focus on customer satisfaction