What are the responsibilities and job description for the SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYST IV position at TE Connectivity?
- Lead the development and execution of the global integrated supply plan for assigned value streams, ensuring full synchronization between demand, production, and inventory.
- Anticipate global supply and capacity challenges, enabling proactive decision-making and risk mitigation.
- Balance global production footprints to maximize flexibility, efficiency, and responsiveness.
End-to-End Supply Chain Optimization
- Balance global supply and demand through proactive scenario planning and constraint management.
- Identify and mitigate risks in capacity, materials, and logistics, ensuring continuity of supply.
- Lead initiatives to optimize working capital, reduce lead times, and increase supply chain flexibility.
- Define optimal global inventory strategies, replenishment policies, and safety stock parameters that balance service and cost.
- Manage capacity planning across global sites, ensuring alignment with customer commitments and operational capabilities.
- Identify and lead supply chain optimization opportunities, including make-versus-buy decisions, footprint optimization, and lead-time reduction initiatives.
- Serve as the central point of coordination between global and regional planning, procurement, manufacturing, and logistics teams.
- Lead regular value stream review meetings to align stakeholders on priorities, actions, and performance metrics.
- Support product lifecycle transitions (launches, transfers, and discontinuations) with integrated planning strategies.
- Leverage advanced planning tools (e.g., SAP IBP, Kinaxis, OMP, or equivalent) to enable data-driven decision-making.
- Analyze performance trends and identify opportunities to improve forecast accuracy, service level, and inventory efficiency.
- Apply lean and value stream mapping methodologies to eliminate waste and streamline planning processes.
- Champion best practices in Integrated Business Planning (IBP) across global operations.
- 7 years of progressive experience in global supply chain planning, production planning, or materials management within a manufacturing environment.
- Demonstrated success managing multi-site or multi-region planning operations.
- Expertise in ERP and advanced planning systems (SAP APO, IBP)
- Proven ability to navigate matrixed organizations and influence across functional and geographic boundaries.
- Strategic thinker with the ability to translate vision into execution.
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement capabilities across all levels of the organization.
- Deep understanding of end-to-end value stream management principles.
- Professional certification (APICS CPIM/CSCP, Lean Six Sigma Green/Black Belt) highly desirable.
Please note: This position may involve working with technical data, technology, software/source code, hardware or other items (collectively “items) subject to U.S. and non-U.S. export control laws and regulations. Under these regulations, it may be necessary for TE to verify a candidate’s national origin and/or citizenship status to determine whether a U.S. or other government export license is required prior to releasing its technologies to the candidate. If TE determines that TE will require a license or will be prohibited by applicable laws from providing the candidate with items necessary for the performance of this position, then TE expressly reserves the right to either a) make an offer of employment contingent upon TE receiving required export licenses from the appropriate government agency, b) consider the candidate for a different position that is not subject to such restrictions, on whatever terms and conditions TE shall establish in its sole discretion, or c) decline to move forward with the candidate’s application.
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