Description

Position Summary

The Supply Chain and Procurement Manager is a strategic leadership role responsible for overseeing and optimizing warehouse operations, procurement processes, and production scheduling within the supply chain. Reporting to the Plant Operations Director, this position plays a pivotal part in reducing costs, improving productivity, and ensuring a seamless flow of goods and materials from warehouse to production programs.

Responsibilities and Essential Duties

• Lead and manage cross-functional team, including warehouse personnel, purchasing team, and scheduling team. This also includes shipments of finished goods, logistics of finished goods, and inbound freight.
• Provide guidance and support to warehouse staff, ensuring adherence to safety protocols and best practices.
• Oversee procurement processes, working closely with the Purchasing team to optimize vendor relationships, negotiate contracts, and ensure timely and cost-effective procurement of materials.
• Develop and implement training programs to enhance the skills and knowledge of warehouse, purchasing, and scheduling team members.
• Ensure each department maintains a safe, clean work environment by following cGMP and SOP guidelines.
• Oversee day-to-day warehouse activities, including receiving, warehousing, and organizing inventory to support efficient warehouse processes.
• Monitor inventory levels and ensure accurate staging of inventory to work orders.
• Identify slow-moving and obsolete inventory and consolidate those inventories to a section of the warehouse. In addition, managing destruction requests.
• Coordinate with all teams to ensure timely work order pulls and delivery, optimizing production schedules.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and cost savings within the warehouse, purchasing, and scheduling operations.
• Develop and implement supply chain and procurement strategies and goals aligned with the organization's overall objectives.
• Develop and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of the supply chain, purchasing, and scheduling functions.
• Analyze data and generate reports to identify areas for improvement and drive continuous optimization.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement process improvements and best practices.
• Implement and maintain inventory control processes as well as facilitate and direct investigations related to NOEs, critical overages, or shortages assigned to Supply Chain.
• Own and lead special projects as assigned.

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