Director, Supply Chain

Title: Director, Supply Chain Description Location: Onsite Status Type: Full Time Qualifications Required: Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations Management, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline or equivalent combination of education and experience; advanced degree or MBA preferred. 10+ years of progressive supply chain experience in manufacturing, including significant responsibility for purchasing, planning, materials, inventory, and supplier management; 5+ years in a leadership role. Demonstrated success ensuring component availability and preventing production disruption in a complex manufacturing environment. Demonstrated experience establishing inventory-control systems, cycle-count programs, shortage-management processes, and purchasing controls. Strong ERP/MRP experience, preferably SAP, with practical understanding of how master data and transactional accuracy affect planning and execution. Experience managing supplier performance, capacity, lead times, delivery recovery, sourcing, negotiations, and cost improvement. Experience supporting new product introductions and/or time-critical commercial launches. Experience in medical device, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment strongly preferred. Experience with product sourcing, contract manufacturing, and Lean/Six Sigma or other structured continuous-improvement methods. Skills & Competencies Strong leadership, judgment, ownership, and accountability for outcomes; demonstrated ability to respond promptly to critical supply issues, make timely decisions, and drive closure with minimal supervision. Advanced planning, problem-solving, risk-management, negotiation, communication, and cross-functional leadership skills. Ability to translate customer demand and production plans into executable material, supplier-capacity, and purchasing plans. Ability to establish effective manual controls, reports, and management processes when ERP functionality or data integrity is insufficient to manage immediate business risk. Ability to work effectively under pressure, manage rapidly changing priorities, and personally engage in critical recovery activities. Strong financial acumen, including working capital, inventory, budgeting, Purchase Price Variance (PPV), and material-cost management. Ability to develop people, set clear expectations, manage performance, delegate effectively, and build a high-accountability team culture. Responsibilities Own material availability for the approved production plan and ensure Supply Chain identifies, communicates, and mitigates component shortages before they interrupt Manufacturing. Establish and maintain forward-looking material-risk visibility across current demand, forecast demand, safety stock, supplier lead times, open purchase orders, and supplier capacity. Establish inventory policies including safety stock, reorder points, cycle counting, reconciliation, transaction discipline, and root-cause/corrective-action processes to ensure SAP inventory accurately reflects physical inventory. Ensure purchase orders are issued with sufficient lead time, successfully transmitted to suppliers, acknowledged, and supported by documented delivery commitments. Maintain exception controls for unacknowledged, overdue, past-due, or otherwise at-risk purchase orders. Lead supplier recovery and escalation for shortages, late deliveries, quality issues, and capacity constraints; ensure documented recovery plans exist for critical material risks. Maintain documented supplier-capacity assessments against current and forecast demand, including anticipated commercial launches and growth scenarios. Establish and review supplier scorecards covering on-time delivery, quality/yield, capacity, lead time, responsiveness, cost/PPV, and corrective-action performance. Lead production and materials planning processes, including master scheduling, MRP, demand-to-supply reconciliation, inventory coverage, and escalatio…

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