The Supply Chain Manager leads the regionalsupply chain serving customers located in the North America and Northern LatinAmerica (NALAN) areas. This role is responsible for managing the flow ofmaterials, resources, and information required within supply chain to meet companygoals and KPIs. This role will also beresponsible for providing inter-company support to other Colorcon sites formaterials sourced or manufactured within the NALAN region.
Working largely in a make to ordermanufacturing environment, the Supply Chain Manager is responsible forimplementing systems, processes, procedures that deliver better than 98%on-time shipments, ensure sustained improvement in inventory turns, and maintainoptimal inventory levels using proven risk-based approaches. This position leads, develops, and supportsactivities with production, distribution, planning, inventory control, andother functions within the company introduce new processes and tools and toresolve bottlenecks and/or problems within the supply chain to better service thecompany and help to maintain high service levels to customers.
Additionalresponsibilities include ensuring the organization’s safety standards, GMP, andQuality Assurance protocols are strictly followed. This position reports to the West Point, PA SiteDirector.

Responsibilities & Duties

• Develop a strong positive team culture, in line with Colorcon’s six values.
• Ensure the team is operating to the highest standards of excellence and practicing best in class supply chain methods.
• Build and maintain strong partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide effective leadership for the supply chain team.
• Foster a collaborative culture to drive supply chain and company success.
• Lead the Sales and Operational Planning (S&OP) process within the region, working towards improved forecast accuracy.
• Oversee the planning and procurement of raw materials, packaging items, and materials for traded distribution.
  Production scheduling of 6 manufacturing cells located at 3 operating site locations (West Point PA, Indianapolis IN, Stoughton WI).
• Provide input to strategic decisions that affect the supply chain department.
• Provide assistance to resolve escalated operational issues and lead the coordination between supply chain and other affected functional groups.
• Optimize procurement practices and procedures to meet the needs of operating departments for MRO, Capex and sites supplies.
• Maintain Inventory Record Accuracy (IRA) levels for all areas to agreed target level.
• Optimize inventory turns to meet agreed targets.
• Evaluate master capacity and utilization and make recommendations toward longer term planning of capacity investment.
• Ensure effective communication channels are maintained between the Supply Chain team and other departments.
• Review and evaluate current processes and procedures to implement improvements in-line with Lean methodology.
• Develop, plan, lead, and implement supply chain optimization projects to improve process and efficiency and maintain alignment with company goals and vision.
• Ensure the company defined levels of GMP standards are strictly adhered to throughout the Supply Chain team.
• Maintain accountability for customer satisfaction and take ownership of the product order to delivery process.
• Manage a rolling customer forecast in partnership with the sales team.