What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager, Supply Chain position at Danfoss?
The Impact You'll Make
Danfoss is looking for a Senior Supply Chain Manager to join us at our Shawnee, OK location. The Senior Supply Chain Manager is responsible for leading all end-to-end supply chain activities at our motors manufacturing site in Shawnee, Oklahoma, US, ensuring reliable material flow, optimized inventory, and strong delivery performance.
The role translates global supply chain strategy into local execution, drives operational excellence across planning and procurement, and ensures full integration of SAP-based processes to enable data-driven decision-making and execution discipline.
This position acts as a key member of the site leadership team, balancing strategic direction with hands-on operational control to deliver on cost, service, and working capital targets.
What You’ll Be Doing
Responsibilities for this position include, but are not limited to, the following.
Required (basic) qualifications
The world faces growing populations, booming urbanization and rapid climate change. At Danfoss, we engineer ready-to-use solutions to these challenges. We build energy-efficient solutions that reduce food loss and make cities cleaner – using digital technology to make systems smarter and more connected – and we engineer innovative new ways to save energy and transition to clean energy for the good of our climate.
Join Danfoss
Danfoss gives you unique opportunities to put your skills to good use, make an impact and shape an exciting career. We encourage employees to take charge, do extraordinary things and run the business like it was their own. Danfoss is a leading technology company where you get to work with – and learn from – expert colleagues with a wide range of professional and cultural backgrounds. Join Danfoss to be part of a world-class team of over 27,000 people in 56 countries that engineer tomorrow and build a better future.
Danfoss is an EO employer and VEVRAA Federal Contractor. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected category.
The application process will remain open until the position has been filled.
What You'll Get From Us
If this role excites you, we’d love to hear from you! Apply now to start the conversation and learn more about where your career can go with us.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected category.
Danfoss engineers solutions that increase machine productivity, reduce emissions, lower energy consumption, and enable electrification.
Our solutions are used in such areas as refrigeration, air conditioning, heating, power conversion, motor control, industrial machinery, automotive, marine, and off- and on-highway equipment. We also provide solutions for renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, as well as district-energy infrastructure for cities.
Our innovative engineering dates back to 1933. Danfoss is family-owned, employing more than 39.360 people, serving customers in more than 100 countries through a global footprint of 95 factories.
Danfoss is looking for a Senior Supply Chain Manager to join us at our Shawnee, OK location. The Senior Supply Chain Manager is responsible for leading all end-to-end supply chain activities at our motors manufacturing site in Shawnee, Oklahoma, US, ensuring reliable material flow, optimized inventory, and strong delivery performance.
The role translates global supply chain strategy into local execution, drives operational excellence across planning and procurement, and ensures full integration of SAP-based processes to enable data-driven decision-making and execution discipline.
This position acts as a key member of the site leadership team, balancing strategic direction with hands-on operational control to deliver on cost, service, and working capital targets.
What You’ll Be Doing
Responsibilities for this position include, but are not limited to, the following.
- Manages plant supply chain performance, including quality, cost and on-time delivery performance
- Manages the supply chain team to support on-time delivery and productivity goals for the plant
- Understands the MRP/ERP functions and rules and continuously drives for improvements in the system (usage, accuracy, compliance, etc.) and integration into the manufacturing process
- Manages and reviews inputs (SIOP and profit planning) and controls (min./max. levels, ROPs, lead times, etc.) of the ordering process to ensure that inventory levels (purchase parts – Vendor-Managed Inventory (VMI), in-transit, C-Level, consignment inventory, etc.) meet plant, division and corporate expectations
- Balances and coordinates the workloads and responsibilities of the employees within the materials planning/scheduling function to support plant level metrics in the areas of Financial Performance (overtime efficiency, on-time delivery, top line sales) by leveraging lean principles and plant balance (level loading, ship ahead schedules, etc.)
- Provides input, support and guidance regarding the Sales, Inventory, Operating and Planning (SIOP) process and is used to drive improvements into the materials planning/scheduling function
- Coordinates with divisional purchasing resources to integrate supply base strategies, performance and improvements
- Other duties as assigned
Required (basic) qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution with an emphasis in materials and/or inventory management.
- 5 years of supply chain experience in a manufacturing environment (purchasing, scheduling, inventory management, etc.
- 5 years progressive SCM experience
- 5 years’ experience directly managing people
- 3 years of ERP/MRP experience
- 3 years of experience using SAP
- Master’s degree in business administration (MBA)
- APICS certification or equivalent
- Good knowledge of key IT tools (MS Office, SAP, MES systems)
- Teamworking
- Problem Solving
- Coaching and developing
- Fact base data driven
- Cross functional
- Planning and Communication
- Drive and Persistence
- Judgement and decision making.
The world faces growing populations, booming urbanization and rapid climate change. At Danfoss, we engineer ready-to-use solutions to these challenges. We build energy-efficient solutions that reduce food loss and make cities cleaner – using digital technology to make systems smarter and more connected – and we engineer innovative new ways to save energy and transition to clean energy for the good of our climate.
Join Danfoss
Danfoss gives you unique opportunities to put your skills to good use, make an impact and shape an exciting career. We encourage employees to take charge, do extraordinary things and run the business like it was their own. Danfoss is a leading technology company where you get to work with – and learn from – expert colleagues with a wide range of professional and cultural backgrounds. Join Danfoss to be part of a world-class team of over 27,000 people in 56 countries that engineer tomorrow and build a better future.
Danfoss is an EO employer and VEVRAA Federal Contractor. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected category.
The application process will remain open until the position has been filled.
What You'll Get From Us
- We promote from within and support your learning with mentoring, training, and access to global opportunities.
- You’ll have flexibility, autonomy, and support to do your best work while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Your well-being matters to us.
- We strive to create an inclusive work environment where people of all backgrounds are respected, and valued for who they are.
- You’ll receive benefits like 13th salary, annual bonus, paid vacation, pension plans, personal insurance, and more. These vary by country and contract, but they’re worth asking about—we think they’re pretty great.
If this role excites you, we’d love to hear from you! Apply now to start the conversation and learn more about where your career can go with us.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected category.
Danfoss engineers solutions that increase machine productivity, reduce emissions, lower energy consumption, and enable electrification.
Our solutions are used in such areas as refrigeration, air conditioning, heating, power conversion, motor control, industrial machinery, automotive, marine, and off- and on-highway equipment. We also provide solutions for renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, as well as district-energy infrastructure for cities.
Our innovative engineering dates back to 1933. Danfoss is family-owned, employing more than 39.360 people, serving customers in more than 100 countries through a global footprint of 95 factories.