Supply Chain Manager

Steris Corporation - Montgomery, AL

Full-time - Mid Level

Montgomery, AL

10,001+ employees

Miscellaneous Manufacturing

About the position

At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe. The Supply Chain Manager is responsible for providing leadership in procurement activities for the site, including inventory control and material flow. This role involves developing and executing strategies within a lean environment, focusing on talent leadership, customer experience, risk management, and cash generation. The Supply Chain Manager will oversee both the tactical daily execution of material procurement availability and material flow, as well as longer-term site-specific sourcing strategies. The successful candidate will focus on developing supply chain agility, generating cash flow, and ensuring the necessary information flow to optimize material availability. This position requires building key relationships both internally across functions such as operations, accounting, finance, quality, and engineering, as well as externally with suppliers. The role also includes supporting all site and business HSE policies, supervising a team of buyers and sourcing specialists, and driving a culture of accountability and results through effective performance management. Additionally, the Supply Chain Manager will lead sourcing initiatives to minimize risk, reduce costs, and ensure the best value continuity of supply. They will ensure that products and services are supplied on time and with good quality to meet customer needs, while also driving team activities to meet site goals for spend aggregation, supplier consolidation, rationalization, and segmentation. The role involves leveraging and managing supplier relationships and performance, leading continuous improvement activities to increase efficiency and reduce costs, and ensuring compliance with STERIS policies and procedures, as well as government requirements. The Supply Chain Manager will also be responsible for ensuring alignment and communication with other functional leaders, supporting the Demand Plan through material and component procurement, and facilitating problem-solving utilizing critical thinking and lean methodologies. This position is key in managing the division's operational inventory to ensure adequate stocking levels for immediate production items and forecasting for future requirements, all while negotiating long-term contracts and managing continuous improvement programs with suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership in procurement activities for the site, including inventory control and material flow.
• Develop and execute strategies within a lean environment focusing on talent leadership, customer experience, risk management, and cash generation.
• Oversee tactical daily execution of material procurement availability and material flow.
• Develop key relationships internally and externally with suppliers and cross-functional teams.
• Support all site and business HSE policies.
• Supervise a team of buyers and sourcing specialists, driving a culture of accountability and results.
• Drive sourcing initiatives to minimize risk, reduce costs, and ensure best value continuity of supply.
• Ensure products and services are supplied on time and with good quality to meet customer needs.
• Lead team activities to meet site goals for spend aggregation, supplier consolidation, rationalization, and segmentation.
• Drive KPI results supporting the Supply Chain Strategy goals.
• Leverage and manage supplier relationships and performance.
• Identify continuous improvement activities to increase efficiency and reduce costs of internal procurement processes and systems.
• Ensure team compliance with STERIS policies and procedures, and government requirements.
• Facilitate problem-solving utilizing critical thinking and lean methodologies.
• Own and drive business and site working capital goals through coordination between procurement, planning, and production.
• Interface with internal and external warehouses and suppliers to ensure proper logistics to support plant and business initiatives.
• Support accuracy of inventory counts and physical inventories by implementing and managing an inventory control system.
• Manage the requisition of all direct and indirect materials and services required to support production schedules and meet incoming quality requirements.
• Participate as a key member of the Plant operations team, supporting cross-functional operations decisions to meet KPI and long-term strategies.
• Employ data analysis and information technology to improve Division performance.
• Create development plans for sourcing/procurement team members and ensure talent pipeline is in place for key functions.
• Analyze inventories and develop and execute plans to balance Inventory % of Sales and optimize customer service.
• Establish and implement standard re-order and delivery procedures.
• Responsible for levels of item data accuracy relating to procurement and suppliers.
• Manage the division operational inventory to ensure adequate stocking levels for immediate production items and forecasting for future requirements.
• Negotiate long-term contracts in coordination with group staff and policies.
• Establish and implement standard/automated re-order procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Six (6) to eight (8) years of experience working in Supply Chain, manufacturing, and/or industrial environment.
• Experience in all aspects of end-to-end Supply Chain including contract negotiations, commodity-based materials management, project management, and commercial analytics.
• Excellent knowledge of office applications like Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and project management tools.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in a regulated business environment.
• First-line supervisory experience in a Lean Manufacturing environment.