Sub-Segment Supply Chain Manager

Job Roles:

• Business acumen--understands production needs and lean principles versus actual and anticipated customer demand with regard to raw materials; limits inventory overage; navigates large scope and scale; grows sales
• Manage complexity--supply chain expert both in terms of external suppliers and internal process; recognizes needs throughout the system and is able to plan accordingly for shared resources or materials; attends to multiple internal stakeholders and external customers with expertise on specific products and projects
• Data and rigor--invites multiple inputs, both qualitative and quantitative; makes adjustments from a data-informed perspective and communicates ramifications throughout the supply chain through to customer; partners with manufacturing and others to ensure schedule adherence; expert in material requirement planning, prioritizing based on data
• Communication and relationship--proactive communicator regarding specific business factors such as lead time; provides accurate and timely information and builds relationship by helping others know what to expect; insists on the integrity of doing what we say we will do
• Proactive and assertive--takes initiative; anticipates issues based on supply and forecasts; communicates regularly throughout the production cycle; asserts self as conduit between customer and production, representing both and finding ways to succeed; asserts business expectations while simultaneously protecting the need for adequate time and information to forecast and plan
• Responsive--balances proactivity with understanding of factors that can affect the business; adapts quickly to unforeseen circumstances; manages changes to projects and timelines to create seamless experiences; reacts to the needs of internal and external stakeholders to provide remarkable service; remains dispassionate in response; comfortable with the intensity of the work and the pressures it creates
• Talent advocate--creates ways to involve junior associates; collaborates cross-functionally to stimulate development and contribute to talent factory strategy while developing team
• Continuous improvement--examines plans to improve forecasting, estimating and execution capabilities; interacts with stakeholders to create feedback loops and implements findings
• Organization--works with systems and governance; manages time well; leads with information and time specific exactness; creates urgency through timelines and forecasts
• Purpose--has a strong sense of "why" things need to be done; communicates and inspires based on the underlying reasons for actions; helps others understand rather than merely executing; seeks to operate strategically in the midst of a demanding and time-sensitive environment
• Coach/Mentor/Manager-- formally and informally develops others and contributes to talent factory strategy; provides direction, review, reassurance, encouragement, challenge, recognition on an individual basis; promotes growth and development in associates; inspires risk; continually assesses and reassesses talent and fit to role based on individual and collective performance

Job Responsibilities:

1. 75-100% travel, location; remote
2. Maintains high ethics and values in the workplace
3. Serves as leader and program manager for customer critical programs between sites within the Airfoils segment
4. Train & implement the Airfoils standard Line of Balance (LOB) flow management to the Specialty Products operations in all internal and customer SIOP processes.
5. Travel to and lead critical supplier recovery/relationship throughput initiatives
6. For all Airfoils Specialty Products operations, support the location teams to execute:
7. Develop and administrate controls for supplier product and production output
8. Monitor raw material inventory and procurement
9. Engage and drive a high performance culture of commit accuracy and collaborates toward on-time delivery
10. Schedule and communicate with the customer any delinquencies to their order
11. Works toward reduction of costs within related fields such as inventory, waste
12. Collaborates toward NPI efforts
13. Critical trainer and developer within the segment talent factory strategy

Basic Requirements:

• B.S. Degree from an accredited institution OR 7 year's experience in supply chain with HS diploma.
• Minimum of five years leadership experience in Production Control and/or Purchasing
• Employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
• This position is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) which requires U.S. person status.