Supply Strategic Planning, Senior Manager

Advantage Technical
$48.00-$72.12
paid time off, paid holidays
United States, California, Fountain Valley
Feb 05, 2025
Position: Sr. Manager, Supply Strategic Planning Location: Fountain Valley, CA, United States Pay Range: $48-$72.12/hr. Required Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree is required. 5-8 years of directly-related experience in inventory management. Demonstrated ability to identify problems/issues, recommend appropriate solutions, and follow-up to ensure positive results is required. 2 or more years directly supervising staff. Experience with inventory planning required. Advanced experience with Microsoft Excel required. Description: The Manager, Supply (Strategic Planning) will support the entire Supply team and Tier 1 leadership with clear strategic direction and decision making on systems and processes to ensure parts availability to support OE service parts requirements. This person will make recommendations and decisions on process and systems settings or systems improvements to ensure attainment of Key Performance Indicators (Fill Rate, Back Order lines, and Inventory Months of Supply). This person will lead a small team to include super user roles that will be responsible for global system settings and parameters that drive demand forecasts and supply replenishment. This person will also be responsible for leading the team that develops and improves standard operating procedures (SOPs), team performance monitoring, training, executive level communication/reporting, and supporting ad-hoc requests/ special projects. This leadership role will be responsible for growing and maintaining organizational intelligence. Systems, data integrity, and process effectiveness are extremely important. This role is responsible for making recommendations and decisions in these areas that have a direct impact on cash (inventory investment), expenses (freight, warehousing), income (parts sales), and customer service (Fill Rate, Back Order lines).The Manger, Supply (Strategic Planning) role is pivotal in the Financial and Operational success of Tier 1. Key Responsibilities: Provide strategic direction, analysis, recommendations/decisions, and team leadership/direction in an effort to establish and achieve organizational KPI's - 35%. Identify, prioritize, and implement process (or systems) improvements aligned to Tier 1 goals and strategies in order to maximize organizational effectiveness in demand forecasting, supply replenishment, and expediting - 30%. Act as a mentor and develop/administer a Supply Team performance evaluation and training program to ensure consistent performance in order to maintain a high level of organizational intelligence -15%. Develop, review, document, and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs). Collaborate with Supply Team leadership on auditing adherence to SOP's - 10%. Generate KPI reports to ensure effective communication of performance against objectives for internal customers, external customers, and executive management - 10%. Key Duties: Provide leadership and mentor team members in all areas of Parts supply as needed in order to grow and maintain organizational intelligence Establish Supply KPI's (group and individual) aligned to customer and internal organizational priorities Develop and administer group and individual KPI tracking and training program Lead KPI monitoring and generation of daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual KPI reports, OE brand updates, VIP presentations, and other executive summaries and reports as needed to track KPI performance. Provide strategic plan/direction aligned to organizational goals on how to achieve set KPI's Effectively coordinate and communicate strategic plan/direction to internal and external customers Provide expert level analysis of process or systems issues impacting KPI achievement Provide clear recommendations and decisions on improving processes or systems to ensure we have effective and accurate forecast and purchase plans to meet all Supply department KPI's Lead the setting of Supply system priorities and ensure we have effective solution designs, testing, and implementation of short and long term system enhancements. Study current forecasting and inventory management processes, and implement any necessary changes to improve accuracy and efficiency, with the goal of common, integrated processes to support OEs. Additional duties as assigned. Skills: Experience with Word and PowerPoint preferred Advanced experience with MS Access or other SQL preferred Excellent verbal and written communication skills required Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills required Excellent organizational skills (Reports and Timelines) Flexibility and responsiveness to changing circumstances Click 'Apply Now' and get started with us today! The base pay range above represents the low and high end of the base compensation range we reasonably expect to pay for this position. Actual base compensation will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including, but not limited to, geographic location, actual experience, and job performance. This job posting is not a promise of any specific pay for any specific employee. The range listed is just one component of the total compensation package for our employees. 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