What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Supply Chain position at KB Search Team?
Are you a strategic and results-driven Supply Chain Director who has proven turn-round experience? If so, this opportunity may be of interest to you. You will lead a team of up to 40 professionals across three Midwest locations. You will shape and execute a forward-looking supply chain strategy, with a future focus of leveraging automaton and predictive supply chain analytics experience to strengthen sourcing, procurement, forecasting, and inventory performance while delivering measurable cost savings and operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership & Innovation
- Define and execute an enterprise supply chain strategy centered on AI, automation, and predictive analytics
- Advance innovative sourcing approaches and sustainable procurement practices
- Lead enterprise MRO procurement, supplier negotiations, and performance optimization
Digital Enablement & Analytics
- Evaluate and implement ROI-driven technologies, including RPA, machine learning, and predictive analytics
- Translate supply chain data into actionable business insight
- Guide organizational capability building as AI-enabled tools are deployed
Operational Excellence
- Provide leadership across materials planning, purchasing, sourcing, and inventory management
- Drive improvement in inventory turns, past due orders, supplier performance, and meeting production goals through the use of reporting automation
- Direct ERP integration and ensure enterprise-wide process optimization
- Monitor performance through real-time dashboards, metrics, and KPIs
Organizational Leadership
- Build and develop a high-performing, analytically driven supply chain organization
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and cross-functional partnership
- Collaborate closely with operations, finance, sales, logistics, IT, and solution development leaders
Qualifications
- Seeking candidates who reside in either the Detroit area or in northern IN
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or related field; MBA preferred.
- 15 years of experience manufacturing with a concentration in supply chain. Experience in operations strongly preferred.
- Experience either in automotive or chemical industry, or in distribution
- Experience leading a supply chain turn-around
- Demonstrated change management experience including motivating a team to embrace change in how future work will be conducted
- Success in process optimization and AI-enabled procurement transformation using predictive analytics preferred
- Experience with robotic process automation (RPA) and/or machine learning algorithms(MLA) a plus
- Experience in procurement, sourcing, inventory management, and supplier strategy
- Experience in directed-buy and/or category management environment a plus
Total Rewards
- Immediate health benefits
- Free on-site clinics and prescriptions
- 401(k) match
- Tuition reimbursement
- Generous PTO and holidays
- Parental leave
- Supplier discounts
No relocation is offered.