Supervisor, Supply Chain

Kaiser Permanente • Portland, OR

106d

About The Position

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

Requirements

• Minimum two (2) years of experience with databases and spreadsheets.
• Minimum one (1) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
• Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Material Management, Operations Research, or related field AND minimum four (4) years of experience in purchasing, contracting, negotiations, material management, logistics, finance, or a directly related field.
• Minimum seven (7) years of experience in Materials and Inventory Control/Management, Logistics, Finance, Distribution, or a directly related field.

Responsibilities

• Recommends developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships.
• Solicits and acts on performance feedback; provides team members with feedback; and mentors and coaches to drive performance improvement.
• Pursues professional growth; provides training and development to talent for growth opportunities; supports execution of performance management guidelines and expectations.
• Implements, adapts, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices and processes.
• Fosters open dialogue, supports, mentors, engages, and motivates team members on collaboration.
• Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance and scope.
• Supervises and coordinates daily activities of designated work team or unit by monitoring the execution and completion of tactical action items and work assignments; ensures all policies and procedures are followed.
• Aligns team efforts and standards, and measures progress in achieving results; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; resolves escalated issues as appropriate.
• Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates, obtains and distributes resources.
• Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and recommends improvement opportunities; influences teams to execute in alignment with operational objectives.
• Ensures asset accounting by guiding and providing support for the asset approval, transfer, and disposal processes; supervising the dispositions in the accounting system.
• Ensures ongoing quality customer services by supervising the resolution of customer issues pertaining to vendors/suppliers reporting, billing, and merchandise.
• Ensures adequate levels of inventory are maintained by supervising the resolution of the receipt and distribution of inventory.
• Maintains and improves supply chain and operations by supervising wide range of complex activities to optimize, maintain, and transform current processes for increased efficiency.
• Ensures purchasing strategy is consistent with the overall national sourcing strategy by supervising the processing of purchase requests.
• Provides direct oversight of compliance with state and federal regulations, and company policy/procedures pertaining to purchasing, inventory management, and distribution.
• Maintains suppliers/vendors performance and relationships by supervising the development of audit processes of suppliers/vendors.
• Provides technical analysis and reporting services for others by coordinating analyses and monitoring results on utilization, quality, inventory levels, and courier routes.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Ambulatory Health Care Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree