Supply Chain Manager

Your Key Accountabilities

• Leads, coaches, and develops the SC&P Expertise team to deliver safe, reliable, and high-quality outcomes while fostering a culture of accountability, engagement, continuous learning, and professional growth.
• Establishes clear performance expectations, development plans, succession strategies, and talent management processes to build organizational capability and ensure business continuity.
• Promotes a culture of safety, inclusion, collaboration, and continuous improvement throughout the team.
• Translates business and functional priorities into executable plans for the SC&P Expertise organization, aligning resources and capabilities to achieve departmental and enterprise objectives.
• Drives execution of Supply Chain Strategy and Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) initiatives, ensuring achievement of safety, service, quality, cost, productivity, and timeliness targets.
• Provides leadership and governance for inventory management processes, ensuring optimal inventory levels that balance customer service, operational reliability, working capital, and cost performance.
• Monitors inventory performance metrics and collaborates with operations, procurement, logistics, and planning teams to mitigate risks associated with stock shortages, excess inventory, slow-moving materials, and obsolescence.
• Drives inventory optimization through data analytics, demand forecasting improvements, material planning, cycle counting, root-cause analysis, and digital solutions.
• Ensures compliance with governance requirements, internal controls, regulatory obligations, and company policies by proactively identifying risks and implementing effective corrective and preventive actions.
• Maintains a strong control environment and ensures adherence to audit requirements, inventory control standards, and supply chain governance practices.
• Champions continuous improvement, process standardization, and digital transformation initiatives, leveraging data and KPI insights to achieve sustainable year-over-year performance improvements.
• Establishes and monitors key performance indicators, ensuring effective tracking, reporting, and accountability for results.
• Builds strong partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to align priorities, resolve complex issues, and support delivery of business objectives.
• Represents the SC&P Expertise function in cross-functional forums, leadership discussions, and strategic initiatives.
• Ensures consistent application of supply chain, inventory management, and departmental policies, standards, and processes across the organization.
• Manages departmental resources, budgets, and operational expenditures to ensure efficient allocation of resources and delivery of business value.

Who we are looking for

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business, Operations Management, Logistics, or a related discipline.
• Significant experience in supply chain, inventory management, planning, operations excellence, continuous improvement, or related functions.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing professional teams in a complex operational environment.
• Strong understanding of inventory management principles, material planning, supply chain processes, and performance management systems.
• Experience driving inventory optimization, working capital improvements, inventory accuracy programs, and inventory control governance.
• Proven ability to lead continuous improvement and digital transformation initiatives.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with the ability to use data to drive performance.
• Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and collaborate effectively across functional and organizational boundaries.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience managing KPIs and delivering measurable improvements in safety, service, cost, quality, inventory performance, and operational efficiency.
• Lean, Six Sigma, or APICS/ASCM certification such as CPIM or CSCP is preferred.