Supply Chain Director

Description: The Director of Supply Chain leads IMI's end-to-end Supply chain function, integrating demand and production planning, procurement, supplier performance, inventory control, warehousing, fulfillment, and logistics. The Director establishes the management systems, decision rights, and cross-functional handoff require to translate customer demand into reliable material and product flow. This role is accountable doe improving delivery reliability, inventory performance, planning discipline, supplier performance, and ERP/MRP adoption while developing the existing Supply Chain team and protecting operating continuity. Duties and Responsibilities: Propose and execute strategic and tactical programs and plans designed to enhance gross profit, maintain high product quality, and deliver product in full and on time to our customers. Lead the integrated Supply Chain organization and develop the managers, supervisors, and functional owners responsible for planning, purchasing, inventory control, warehousing, fulfillment, and logistics. Establish and lead the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process, including demand review, supply and capacity review, inventory and service risk assessment, scenario evaluation, and executive decision support. Own the end-to-end planning framework from demand signals through the Master Production Schedule (MPS), material requirements, capacity planning, production scheduling, and customer delivery commitments. Ensure the production plan balances customer priorities, capacity, labor, materials, equipment constraints, inventory objectives, and approved business priorities. Develop and manage the Supply Chain operating budget, including staffing, inventory-related costs, freight, warehousing, outside services, and approved cost-improvement initiatives. Provide governance for schedule changes, frozen-fence exceptions, shortages, expedites, and other trade-offs that affect customer commitments, operating stability, cost, or inventory. Lead procurement and material planning practices that support material availability, prudent inventory levels, supplier performance, cost control, and continuity of supply. Establish supplier performance management in partnership with Quality Assurance, including delivery, responsiveness, risk, and corrective-action follow-up. Quality retains ownership of supplier quality requirements, qualification, and quality-system decisions. Develop sourcing strategies for critical materials and services, including supplier selection, pricing and contract negotiations, dual-sourcing opportunities, lead-time reduction, and supply-risk mitigation. Provide leadership for inventory control, warehouse operations, finished-goods fulfillment, shipping, freight, and logistics, with clear accountability for transaction discipline, inventory accuracy, and on-time, in-full shipment execution. Establish clear decision rights and operating handoffs with Customer Experience & Growth, Manufacturing Operations, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality Assurance, Finance, and Information Systems. Partner with Manufacturing Operations to maintain the distinction between plan ownership and execution ownership: Supply Chain owns and governs the approved plan; Manufacturing Operations owns execution against the plan and timely communication of constraints and variances. Lead enterprise adoption of new ERP system, identify and retire approved manual workarounds as system capability becomes available. Define, monitor, and review Supply Chain performance measures, including forecast accuracy, production schedule attainment, material shortages, supplier on-time delivery, inventory turns, inventory accuracy, DIFOT, and ERP process adoption. Use data, root-cause analysis, and corrective action to address recurring service, schedule, supplier, inventory, and material-flow issues. Prepare clear executive-level assessments of supply, demand, capacity, inventory, and delivery risks, including recommended trade-off…

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