Supply Chain Manager 1

Penske • Dearborn, MI

21h • Onsite

About The Position

The Supply Chain Manager 1 is responsible to provide tactical direction and leadership to ensure customer requirements are met. This role is responsible for the day-to-day execution of all account activities, monitoring carrier performance to optimize value delivered to the customer, and quickly resolving operations issues to eliminate production loss or transportation service failures while communicating with the customer. The position operates Monday through Friday during normal business hours.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent required
• 3 years of functional experience in multiple supply chain service lines (transportation, warehousing, LLP, etc) required
• 2 years of supervisory or equivalent experience
• Must be able to identify interim solutions or containment action plans that have overall network implications
• Strategic direction of location, aligning local customer expectations with Statement of Work.
• Must be able to ensure succession planning of key positions, deployment of staffing model and developing future leaders.
• Ability to manage multiple projects with a sense of urgency while maintaining a high degree of accuracy
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong problem solving skills.
• Strong analytical and presentation skills, written/oral communication and organizational skills required.
• Must have a strong understanding of operations and supporting technology, especially web based applications
• Must have a successful track record of building relationships with stakeholders or customers that have resulted in high customer satisfaction
• Regular, predictable, full attendance is an essential function of the job
• Willingness to travel as necessary, work the hours necessary to accomplish the job duties, work at the specific location required, complete Penske employment application, submit to a background investigation (to include past employment, education, and criminal history) and drug screening.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree preferred with a concentration in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management or equivalent
• Experience with root cause analysis preferred
• Working knowledge of financial management (P&L experience preferred).

Responsibilities

• Responsible for all parts control and/or load control center activities.
• Often requires daily analysis of customer transportation needs.
• Responsible to monitor the carrier and / or supplier bases to ensure customer demand is being met in a timely manner.
• Develop action plans to address issues affecting the supply chain network.
• Seek internal operating efficiencies through process / system improvements.
• Reduced cycle time and/or cost of operations.
• Identify new business opportunities, work with SAE to expand service offerings.
• Identify and deploy continuous improvement (AC/FC).
• Conduct performance review, corrective action, and goal setting for team of salaried and hourly employees.
• Provide career development, mentoring, and promotional opportunities to direct reports to create future leaders.
• Deploy and maintain staffing and development strategies.
• PCM, CDP, succession planning of all positions.
• Responsible for the formalization of comprehensive project plans, clarifying timelines, milestones, goals and ownership.
• Intervene when necessary to resolve issues between project managers, operations, functional teams and customers.
• Work closely with customer's leadership and project team during scope development and option analysis phase.
• Understand how customer, supplier and vendor fleets work together and affect overall supply chain performance.
• Recommend vendors and suppliers necessary to deploy logistics solution.
• Create and foster a relationship with the customer's logistics manager to facilitate operational stability.
• Manage the clients' expectations regarding our team's satisfactory performance & service execution.
• Review operating metrics and fix out-of-tolerance results.
• Communicating all progress on a set cadence with customer and up through Penske covering KPI’s and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Thoroughly review account budget for accuracy and report inconsistencies and analysis.
• Identify issues and resolve with leadership.
• Continually evaluate account to assess whether deliverable will meet customer's needs at the contractual rates.
• Other Projects as assigned

Benefits

• Penske is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED