Supply Chain Manager II

Maker's Pride Talent Acquisition Team•Terre Haute, IN

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Supply Chain Manager II provides facility supply chain leadership across production scheduling, capacity planning, materials requirement planning (MRP), inventory management, and customer service. The role maximizes capacity, product availability, and customer service while optimizing raw, work-in-process (WIP), and finished goods inventories. It ensures inventory and MRP settings are maintained with system data integrity and manages department personnel performance and development. The position oversees facility planning and materials management, customer and supplier coordination, inventory and service performance, operational billing, and the setup and startup of new projects. It works with operations and other functions to maintain capacity, meet service targets, recover billable costs, and identify improvements across department functions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree.
Five or more years of progressive development in production-operation supply chain capacity.
Five or more years of salaried leadership experience.
One or more years of experience in a manager-level position.
Experience with complex problem solving and scheduling in a manufacturing environment.
A can-do attitude and willingness to dive in and find solutions.

Responsibilities

Manage customer service and day-to-day supply chain planning and materials management communications at the facility.
Own facility capacity planning, schedule production to customer forecast demands, and maintain customer target compliance.
Administer the inventory cycle count program and report results for the 13-week geographic method and HTL audit reporting, meeting company targets.
Receive customer shipment orders and process on-time deliveries to designated locations and freight carriers.
Assign new accounts and purchasing responsibilities to Supply Chain Specialists.
Manage personnel performance, including approval and reporting of department personnel absences and vacation days.
Maintain and execute department procedures and policies for inventory turns, days of supply, inactive inventory disposition, scheduling guidelines, and space capacity against company KPI targets.
Work with the operations team to maintain facility space capacity at 90% or lower to reduce capacity constraints.
Monitor daily, weekly, and monthly production and shipment attainment reports; report attainment to management and customers as required.
Manage service, inventory, and planning performance metrics internally and externally.
Ensure appropriate department staffing and effective management and control of inventories, production schedules, materials management, and customer service.
Support strategies for responding to customer needs and participate heavily in setting up and starting new projects.
Identify improvement opportunities across critical department functions.
Audit operational billing monthly, ensure billable costs are recovered within the appropriate timeframe, and maintain a monthly reconciliation.
Ensure supply-chain-triggered credit and debit memos are sent to Accounting in a timely manner for cost recovery.
Monitor excess, obsolete, and aged materials and manage disposition with customers and suppliers.
Ensure customer communications and reporting are managed efficiently for all accounts.
Purchase materials or pull in customer-supplied materials through MRP.
Set up part numbers, bills of materials, assembly routing instructions, engineering standards, date code formats, and aging requirements.
Investigate and resolve inventory availability and distribution issues.
Prepare invoices and operational billing and coordinate outbound shipments.
Assist Cost Accounting by providing standard costs and communicating cost changes.
Ensure scheduling, 13-week capacity reviews, quarterly run rules and rate updates, aged and hold inventory reviews and actions, LRP RCCP monthly or bi-monthly reviews, and monthly inventory KPI meetings and reporting are in place.