Supply Chain Manager - Manufacturing

Job Overview As a Supply Chain Manager - Manufacturing, you’ll connect supply chain planning, procurement, logistics, and production to keep materials moving and manufacturing operations on track. You’ll use data and cross-functional collaboration to balance inventory, forecast demand, and improve processes. This role is suited to a hands-on leader who can turn analysis into clear priorities and practical action. Duties · Develop and execute sourcing strategies for raw materials, packaging, intermediate products, finished goods, transportation, and other assigned categories based on total delivered cost, quality, service, capacity, lead time, and risk. · Source materials and finished goods from internal manufacturing locations and external suppliers; determine the most effective source based on availability, production capacity, freight, inventory, lead time, customer requirements, and total delivered cost. · Lead supplier identification, qualification, competitive bidding, negotiation, contracting, onboarding, performance management, supplier development, and corrective-action follow-up. · Manage inbound, outbound, interplant, local-delivery, and long-haul transportation activities supporting manufacturing, inventory, customer, and service requirements. · Coordinate interplant transfers of raw materials, intermediate products, customer demand, freight cost, and service requirements. · Develop, implement, and continuously optimize local customer delivery routes, route schedules, delivery frequencies, shipment consolidation, stop sequencing, vehicle or carrier utilization, and delivery capacity. · Manage domestic transportation providers, including local and dedicated carriers, less-than-truckload (LTL), full-truckload (FTL), expedited, and long-haul/cross-country carriers. · Lead carrier sourcing, freight bids, rate negotiations, contracting, lane and capacity planning, service reviews, claims follow-up, and corrective actions. · Evaluate transportation modes, freight lanes, shipment consolidation, routing alternatives, source locations, and delivery methods using service requirements and total delivered cost. · Manage the end-to-end container program, including demand planning, booking schedules, shipment visibility, documentation, customs coordination, port and carrier activity, delivery scheduling, detention and demurrage exposure, and issue resolution. · Coordinate with international suppliers, internal manufacturing locations, freight forwarders, customs brokers, ocean and domestic carriers, warehouses, and internal teams to maintain reliable product flow and minimize disruption. · Partner with Warehouse, Operations, Sales, Customer Service, Planning, and other manufacturing sites to coordinate shipment priorities, customer deliveries, interplant transfers, dock schedules, and transportation capacity. · Identify, prioritize, implement, and validate cost-saving and cost-avoidance initiatives across sourcing, freight, inventory, lead time, packaging, supplier terms, route optimization, mode selection, load consolidation, premium freight, and accessorial charges. · Maintain a documented savings pipeline and report project status, realized financial impact, risks, and next steps to leadership and Finance. · Develop supplier and carrier scorecards and key performance indicators for cost, quality, on-time pickup, on-time delivery, tender acceptance, responsiveness, lead time, claims and damage, service failures, capacity, detention, accessorial charges, and compliance; lead recurring business reviews. · Partner with Sales and Operations to align forecasts, purchasing plans, transportation capacity, inventory targets, production needs, and customer requirements. · Monitor inventory levels, safety stock, purchase commitments, interplant supply, aging, shortages, excess, and obsolescence; implement cor…

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