Senior Supply Chain Manager

Position Summary

The Supply Chain Manager owns the end-to-end supply chain for Lincoln Electric - Harris Products: ensuring that people, processes, data, and technology work together to deliver superior customer service, optimized inventory, efficient operations, and sustainable business growth. The role provides governance and leadership across planning and inventory and eventually will own the Harris S&OP cycle.

This role ensures that products are manufactured on time, while continuously improving processes to enhance efficiency, optimize resource utilization and reduce costs.

Key Responsibilities

Production Planning

• Develop and maintain detailed production plan aligned with demand forecasts and inventory levels (including WIPS)
• Develop mid-term/long-term production plan in line with service level target
• Lead cross-functional meeting to ensure the tradeoff of decisions are well understood
• Analyses and maintains appropriate planning parameters in collaboration with manufacturing operations.

Inventory/Buying

• Ensure timely availability of materials, equipment, and labor by coordinating with procurement and logistics teams.
• Monitor inventory levels, conduct audits, and manage material requirements planning (MRP).
• Analyzes and maintains planning parameters in line with business unit strategy within the guidelines defined by the supply chain center of excellence
• Enforce the usage of enterprise defined digital tools.

Demand Planning & Forecast Excellence

• Owns the Harris demand planning cycle
• Improve forecast accuracy and bias through advanced analytics, segmentation, and statistical modeling
• Partner with Commercial, Finance, and Product Management to align demand assumptions and drive one set of numbers
• Coordinate with other demand planning functions to ensure global alignment

Change Management & Culture Building

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and operational discipline.
• Develop training programs to build internal capabilities.
• Collaborate with IT, Digital and other business units to drive transformation.

Performance Management & Reporting

• Define local KPI such as OTIF (On-Time-In-Full), Customer Service Level, Forecast Accuracy, Inventory Turns, Backlog, Schedule Attainment. and provide root cause analysis for enterprise KPIs
• Provide updates to executive leadership and adjust strategies accordingly.

Leadership & Cultural Attributes

• Embodies Lincoln Electric’s core values and The Golden Rule.
• Practices servant leadership and leads by example.
• Acts as a trusted coach and collaborative team player.
• Demonstrates integrity, accountability, and a drive for result

S&OP Leadership

• Lead the monthly S&OP process.
• Facilitate executive S&OP reviews.
• Align demand, supply, inventory, capacity and financial plans.
• Escalate risks and recommend mitigation actions.

Capacity Management

• Develop capacity models across manufacturing operations.
• Identify future constraints and recommend investments.
• Balance customer service levels, inventory and manufacturing capacity.
• Support long-range business planning.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, Supply Chain Management, finance Operations, or related field

Experience

• 8 years of experience in supply chain
• Deep understanding of manufacturing processes, supply chain dynamics, and production systems.
• Experience with SAP

Skills:

• Strong leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to influence across functions and drive sustainable change
• Proven track record of leading large-scale transformation in a manufacturing setting.
• Strategic thinker with a hands-on, data-driven approach
• Passion for innovation, technology, and operational excellence

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s or MBA Preferred
• APICS CPIM
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

Key Competencies

• Maintains a Customer Focus – Demonstrating exceptional service to both internal and external customers giving high priority to understanding and satisfying the customer.
• Takes Ownership – Demonstrates a continuous drive to achieve superior results and takes responsibility for those results.
• Team Player – Has the ability to collaborate effectively with others to achieve common goals. Recognizes situations in which team members need to work together to solve work tasks at hand.
• Uses Sound Judgment / Integrity – Takes action that is well-reasoned for the best interest of the business.
• Achieves Quality Results – Executes on objectives to ensure the long- term success of the organization

Key Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Qualities Required

• Team Player – Has the ability to collaborate effectively with others to achieve common goals. Recognizes situations in which team members need to work together to solve work tasks at hand.
• Language Skills – Ability to write procedures with input from subject matter experts. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from regulatory agencies or members of the business community. Ability to write speeches and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format. Effective presentation skills. Ability to assist in the completion of regulatory forms for submittal.
• Mathematical Skills – Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as proportions and percentages. Ability to calculate conversions of standard and metric measurements.
• Reasoning Ability – Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Other Qualities – Pleasant, self-motivated, high energy, and reliable with an eye for detail. Ability to work under pressure. Strong organizational skills. Able to prioritize tasks and work independently. Ability to occasionally work alternate shifts if need arises.
• Personality - A pleasant, self-motivated, high energy, reliable focused person with an eye for detail. Ability to work under pressure and deliver results in a timely manner and professionally
• Appearance - Maintain a professional appearance that reflects positively on HPG while dealing with outside contacts and other HPG personnel
• Work Environment – While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or hot humid conditions, oily conditions. The noise level in the work environment can be very loud at times
• Physical Demands: See Physical Demands Document
• Reasonable Accommodation - The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required for the position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.