Supply Chain Manager

Steris Corporation - Richmond, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Richmond, CA

Miscellaneous Manufacturing

About the position

The Supply Chain Manager at STERIS is responsible for leading procurement activities, inventory control, and material flow within a lean environment. This role focuses on developing supply chain agility, generating cash flow, and ensuring optimal material availability to meet customer needs. The manager will supervise a team, drive sourcing initiatives, and foster relationships with internal and external stakeholders to achieve site-specific goals and enhance operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Support all site and business HSE policies.
• Supervise a team of buyers and sourcing specialists, and other associated roles.
• Drive a culture of accountability and results through routine management and effective performance management.
• Lead overall 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.
• Ensure alignment and communication with other functional leaders.
• Support the Demand Plan through material and component procurement to meet business demand, customer service, and site cost and productivity goals.
• 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 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, serving as the voice of the purchasing team.
• Employ data analysis and information technology to improve Division performance.
• Create development plans for sourcing/procurement team members and ensure a talent pipeline is in place for key functions.
• Analyze inventories and develop plans to balance Inventory % of Sales and optimize customer service.
• Establish and implement standard re-order and delivery procedures.
• Manage 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in a related technical field.
• 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

• Master's Degree in a related technical field, preferred.
• ISM or ASCM certification, preferred.
• Regulated business environment experience, preferred.
• First-line supervisory experience in a Lean Manufacturing environment, preferred.

Benefits

• Market Competitive Pay
• Extensive Paid Time Off (PTO) and 9 added Holidays
• Excellent Healthcare, Dental and vision benefits
• Long/Short Term Disability coverage
• 401(k) with a company match
• Maternity & Paternity Leave
• Additional add-on benefits/discounts for programs such as Pet Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement and continued education programs
• Excellent opportunities for advancement in a stable long-term career