Senior Manager Supply Chain

Job Description

Manages materials planning, requisitioning, materials control, and warehouse functions and employees. Typically manages in multiple or very large locations.

Responsibilities

Essential Duties:

Safety

• Champion service quality, health, safety, environmental policies.
  
  

Planning

• Develop Material Plans to support business objectives including customer service, on-time delivery, inventory turns, cost, etc. for respective area.
• Work with Corporate Supply Chain to identify and establish long-term strategic relationships with critical suppliers.
  
  

Source to Pay

• Ensure lowest total cost by compliance with preferred supplier agreements.
• Establish regional price agreements and contracts.
• Sourcing and procurement to minimize equipment downtime.
• Regularly review and action open supply chain resolution issues to minimize delays in work order closures or invoice payments.
  
  

Inventory, Warehouse and Logistics Management

• Optimize inventory holdings to reduce slow moving inventory and minimize or reduce stock outs.
• Regularly execute plans for slow-moving inventory disposal/investment recovery.
• Develop, implement and maintain an accurate physical inventory and cycle count program. Ensure material control throughout multiple manned and unmanned facilities.
• Optimize routes to improve delivery timing and minimize drive time, fuel and wear and tear on company vehicles.
  
  

Process Improvement

• Work with Corporate Supply Chain to implement operational standards and processes and drive continuous improvement.
• Independently identify and work with Corporate Supply Chain to develop new processes to improve efficiency across the Supply Chain organization.
  
  

General Management

• Work with business to understand overall business plan and priorities.
• Review and analyze supply chain activity reports and metrics and determine/execute appropriate mitigation actions with a sense of urgency.
• Manage supply chain performance to established KPI's in respective area and drive targeted improvement plans.
• Work with other departments to communicate supplier performance issues and develop improvement plans.
• Participate in periodic business unit and corporate supply chain management reviews of supply chain performance and improvements.
• Manage annual budget.
• Develop, implement, manage and communicate work standards and performance metrics for assigned team.
• Responsible for employee hiring, performance management and development.
• On board new employees and assess competency and training needs of team members. Develop training plans for all team members and ensure that training is provided.
• Coordinate schedule and set priorities to ensure task completion and minimize overtime.
• Include business partner feedback in the objectives and direction setting for the function. Effectively communicate progress against objectives with key stakeholders.
• Manage all resources (personnel, equipment, materials, facilities, funds and reputation) for assigned Business Units.
  
  

Non-Essential Duties: Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Skills and Abilities:

• Perform all essential duties.
• Ability to maintain effective controls on supply chain related processes
• Motivate team to give 100% effort all of the time
• Exhibit strong customer service and maintain good customer relationships.
• Demonstrate strong analytical abilities and problem solving skills.
• Demonstrate interpersonal, negotiation, coaching and leadership skills to manage diverse team
• Demonstrate strong organizational, labor planning and scheduling, and process / change management skills.
• Demonstrate proficiency with the Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, etc.), ERP (Oracle preferred) and PC skills.
• Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to train and mentor other supply chain team members
• Ability to identify areas for improvement and develop improvement plans
  
  

Knowledge

• Good understanding of all Supply Chain functions (Planning, Source to Pay, Inventory and Warehouse Management, Inbound and outbound logistics)
• General knowledge of shop and/or field operations in the gas compression industry
• Thorough knowledge of relevant HSE procedures and regulations.
  
  

Minimum Requirements

• College degree in Business, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering or equivalent
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in the supply chain function with minimum of 5 years of management role.
  
  

Physical Demands: (Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions)

• Must be fit for duty for the job tasks being performed.
• Must meet the medical requirements necessary to wear PPE required by role.
• Frequently required to display good manual dexterity and to reach with hands and arms.
• Frequently required to talk and hear.
• Frequently required to perform repetitive motions, sit while using PC and to stand and walk with good balance.
• Occasionally required to stoop, twist, kneel, and squat.
• Occasionally required to lift, move and carry up to 50 pounds and to push and pull up to 110 pounds.
• Occasionally required to climb, stairs and slanted ladders and carry up to 30 pounds with one hand.
• Vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
  
  

Problem Solving And Innovation

• Analyzes performance data on an on-going basis and develops recovery plans as needed.
• Finds immediate solutions to prevent escalation and solutions to resolve conflicts between customer and company requirements.
• Implements preventative and corrective actions in a timely manner.
• Expected to drive process improvements and to teach others to identify opportunities, provide ideas, methods and innovations and to implement improvements to enhance safety, teamwork, efficiency and quality.
  
  

Impact

• Full responsibility and impact on planning, scheduling and procedural change for assigned area.
• Monitors and approves overtime.
• Accountable for HSE performance, service quality of assigned team and customer satisfaction.
• Assists with preparation of the budget for assigned area, manages to budget, reports variances and develops recovery plans as needed.
  
  

This job description is a summary of essential job functions. It is not intended as an employment contract, nor is it intended to describe all duties someone in this position may perform. All employees are expected to perform tasks, as assigned by supervisor, regardless of job title or routine job duties.

About Us

Archrock is a premier provider of natural gas compression services to customers in the energy industry throughout the U.S. and a leading supplier of aftermarket services to customers who own compression equipment. With approximately 1,000 employees, our unmatched expertise and team of highly qualified, certified technicians are backed by more than 70 years of industry experience.

Archrock is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

About The Team

At Archrock, we value our people, over and above the generous compensation and benefits we offer. We strive to be good stewards of their careers. Career paths are well defined and room for growth is available to everyone. Employees have the flexibility and support to pursue different roles within the company. And in an operation that has locations across the United States they have the freedom to relocate if they desire.