What are the responsibilities and job description for the FMC Supply Chain Director position at Eaton Corporation?
Eaton’s FMC (Fuel & Motion Controls) division is hiring a Supply Chain Director. Preference to be based at a major Eaton hub.
What you’ll do:
Division Supply Chain Director – FMC Division ($1.1B)
Lead the global supply chain strategy for Eaton’s FMC Division, overseeing $500M in spend across 11 sites. Drive cost reduction, supplier performance, and operational excellence while supporting new product introductions and strategic sourcing initiatives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own material cost-out strategy and profit plan attainment.
- Lead SIOP, inventory optimization, and supplier management initiatives.
- Develop and execute global commodity and localization strategies.
- Support new product development with supplier sourcing and capital planning.
- Drive supplier quality improvements and corrective actions.
- Champion make/buy decisions and outsourcing strategies.
- Align with Aerospace Group standards and report to VP of Supply Chain and SVP/GM of FMC.
Qualifications:
The position requires very strong managerial and leadership skills. This person must continually demonstrate a complete understanding of both operational need and business objectives. The ability to quickly analyze operational issues is needed. In-depth understanding of global business practices is highly desired.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in operations, engineering, supply chain management, or general business
- Minimum 10 years of experience in purchasing, material management or other SCM related position
- Minimum 3 year’s experience in supervisory position
- Proven leadership in global supply chain management
- Strong background in cost reduction, supplier development, and strategic sourcing.
- Experience with new product introduction and cross-functional collaboration.
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA
Position Criteria:
- Proven success in advanced materials and commodity management.
- Strong communication, presentation, and leadership skills.
- Expertise in MRP, Lean, JIT, VMI, and supply chain systems.
- High business acumen and financial literacy.
- Demonstrated ability to lead global, cross-functional teams in a matrixed environment.
- Strategic thinker with a bias for action and continuous improvement.
- Skilled in mentoring, change leadership, and operational partnership.
Additional Information:
- Willingness to objectively tackle complex high-level operational challenges using a practical combination of traditional and innovative methods.
- Ability to define win/win situations with suppliers
- Advocate for the supplier when the supplier is not being treated fairly
- Strategic (macro) perspective when analyzing trends or planning for the future.
- Tactical understanding of near term or local impact of broad strategic decisions on operational efficiency.
- Professional presence with the confidence and leadership ability to convey need & vision at all levels.
- Strong collaborative bias towards recognizing and assembling the right team to accomplish the corporate objective
- Self directing and self motivating
- Decisive and able to make controversial decisions to achieve greater value
- An active change agent who is willing to take an appropriate amount of risk.
- Sense of urgency
- Strong customer focus
At Eaton, we strive to provide compensation and benefits that attract, engage, and retain the best talent. This includes competitive pay and a variety of benefit programs for eligible employees. The expected annual salary range for this role is $176249.97 - $258499.96 a year. This role is also eligible for a variable incentive program. Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
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Salary : $176,250 - $258,500