Summary

Responsible for the development and deployment of Supply Chain strategies, Scheduling and Purchase Estimating for North America.

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Collaborate with functional leaders and internal stakeholders to drive alignment in supply planning and sourcing priorities for programs.
• Accountable for overseeing tactical supply planning/execution and supplier network management.
• Collaborate with internal and external functional leaders to oversee design and implementation of programs and initiatives.
• Manages and oversees the purchasing team. Provides continuous coaching and personnel reviews for the team to ensure continuous development of the purchasing team for team member growth and promote quality.
• Develops and implements departmental processes to continuously improve the department’s quality and timing.
• Responsible for overseeing the Sourcing Strategy for Direct, Indirect and Services.
• Sets department and personal goals that can be benchmarked through KPI’s with year over year improvements.
• Seeks out and capitalizes on strategic opportunities that yield significant advantages for client to improve on quality, delivery, and cost.
• Develops and builds current and new vendor relationships to improve supplier deliveries, quality and cost. Create supplier score cards to rate each supplier on their performance.
• Researches and finds new vendors to ensure an improved supply chain base for client
• Negotiates prices and contracts with suppliers.
• Schedules deliveries and ensures on time delivery of products from suppliers.
• Addresses quality or on time issues with suppliers using a corrective action process.
• Maintains financial records of past orders, and reviews these orders for cost, delivery, and vendor performance.
• Attends kick off meeting, buy offs, and other job-oriented conferences to stay up to date on the latest changes to the jobs, products, and proposals.
• Organizes departmental meeting to communicate job structures, budgets, and timing.
• Understands and follows safety & environmental regulations and identifies safety/environmental concerns.
• Adheres to the Quality Systems and participates in continuous improvement.
• Regular and predictable attendance is an essential function of this job.

Job location: Sterling Heights, MI