Senior Supply Chain Job Description
Senior supply chain
provides training and coaching on various supply chain processes such as inventory management, non-working inventory management, capacity planning, and scheduling.
Senior Supply Chain Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective senior supply chain job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included senior supply chain job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Works with Director, Manager, and Purchasing Staff to research potential cost saving projects and to document and track savings
Manage monthly close process for areas of responsibility
Provide onsite and offsite support of HCO and project manager
Conduct line-item pricing comparisons and studies for HCO
Identify cost reduction opportunities and track cost savings for HCO
Conduct pricing analysis against competitive intelligence
Research HCO purchases at contract level
Specify standardization opportunities
Specify system-wide product pricing price leveling
Compile project reports and present findings to hospital personnel
Senior Supply Chain Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Senior Supply Chain
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: APICS, CPIM, CSCP, QS, ISO, LEAN, PMP, ESD, CPM, ISM
Education for Senior Supply Chain
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the senior supply chain job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Education, Finance, MBA, Management, Business/Administration, Technical, Industrial Engineering
Skills for Senior Supply Chain
Desired skills for senior supply chain include:
Excel
Purchasing
Inventory management processes
Scheduling
SAP
PowerPoint
SQL
MS Word
Outlook
Excel and VBA
Desired experience for senior supply chain includes:
Adherence to all health, safety & environmental requirements in support of departmental and site HSE goals
Customer oriented and ability to adequately manage trade-offs
Ability to consult with all levels of the organization
Ability to work/interact with various departments and levels on a daily basis, including senior management
Healthcare consulting experience is strongly preferred
Medical/Surgical/Healthcare product knowledge is required
Senior Supply Chain Examples
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Senior Supply Chain Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior supply chain. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior supply chain
- Provide direct leadership to the New Port Richey Purchasing and Shipping/Receiving/Warehouse personnel and DMS (Danaher Material Systems) manager assume dotted line, process focused responsibility for the factory planners (reporting solid line to Value Stream Leaders & Focus Factory Managers)
- Manage order scheduling, backlog, and rescheduling processes
- Codify learnings
- Provides periodic static data extraction and validation for integrity and consistency
- Provides standard reporting for the region and dynamic reporting across categories / structures
- Manage, Drive, Own, Deliver and Publish performance through appropriate supply chain metrics
- Lead the OTD improvement efforts around Direct MTO Short Lead time, Distributor ordering behaviors, and Block performance by working with New Port Richey Customer Service and Commercial teams
- Identify, align, and support initiatives to improve the velocity, cost, and working capital from point of manufacture to customer delivery
- Provide Supply Chain representation to Product Delivery and CMC teams (Global Operations Teams)
- Report, plan for and mitigate risks to supply chain (eg
Qualifications for senior supply chain
- 8 or more years of applicable work experience in a Logistics and/or Property Management function
- Ability to lift 50lb packages
- Must possess valid driver’s license to perform daily courier functions
- Comprehensive understanding of Microsoft office suite a must
- Previous hospital consulting, supply responsibility or healthcare sales a plus
- A four-year degree in Procurement/Supply Chain, Engineering, Finance or related field
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a senior supply chain. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior supply chain
- Manage inventories to eliminate and prevent excess and inactive materials
- Review, approve and implement ECO and DEV via Arena with vendor partners
- Drive identification of opportunities to improve and ensure delivery of financial commitments
- System set up of all field and Raleigh inventory locations
- Responsible for material supply and quality escalations for field service engineers and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) customers during business hours and 24/7 on a rotating basis
- Build 3-12 mth
- Sift through information available from a broad range of sources and find all relevant information
- Connect scattered pieces of information and create value-adding insight(s)
- Identify trend(s) from the information
- Consistently meet agreed upon deliverable standards including quality and timelines
Qualifications for senior supply chain
- Flexible, able to work on own initiative, deal with more than one project at a time and prioritize accordingly
- Creates & implements process improvements across Regions inclusive of infrastructure setup to support inventory and move, and service area routing to support repair
- Org Alignment and Strategic thinking
- Experience communicating with senior management (VP level decision makers) cross functional with colleagues from engineering, operations, data sciences, and business verticals
- Experience in Supply Chain advance analytics applications
- Knowledge of probabilistic vs
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior supply chain. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior supply chain
- Creates cost breakdown and RFQ documents, and opportunity overview
- Recommends solution for simple issues or concerns
- Collects data and documents from different resources
- Informs and sends requirements of the ES event to the suppliers
- Responds to Level 1 general inquiries and requests received from suppliers
- Conducts basic/overview/ awareness training on product, process and ERP/business tools
- Responds to Level 2 inquiries and requests received from suppliers on technical or engineering aspects
- Encodes the general information of the ES event
- Monitors pre-bid and supplier issues or concerns
- Monitors actual bid event and request assistance for supplier issues or concerns from the ARIBA helpdesk
Qualifications for senior supply chain
- Experience using Supply Chain Planning systems
- Bachelor's degree in business, logistics, or any related field
- Develop the supply plan template to be used by the manufacturing sites to be used to develop the monthly “supply plan” side of the S&OP process
- In conjunction with the various inventory-carrying sites, construct an annual by-month ending inventory plan each fiscal year, with the objective of improving inventory turns
- As required, conduct site-level “diagnostic” deep dive reviews of under-performing sites with respect to inventory
- As required, develop alternative distribution patterns and networks to optimize (reduce) freight expense, order fulfillment cycle time, distribution / handling costs
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a senior supply chain. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior supply chain
- Develop strong working relationships with internal colleagues, those in the US and other countries
- Respond to incoming calls, customer service tickets, and assist users over the phone, by remote login, or in-person
- Assist, develop, and manage equipment and software licenses, leases, contracts, purchase requisition, statements of work, and supplier selection criteria
- Responsible for logistics and cross-border trade activities, including those conducted in-house and by 3PLs, materials management
- Develop and implement lean process improvements
- Maintain production forecasts/demand plan
- Participate in ‘Cost Out’ initiatives
- Lead effort with Demand Planning to translate finished goods forecasts into machine hour plans and project impact on inventory
- Provide subject matter expertise to the planning teams, establish site level machine hour and labor plans, project inventory and influence the Value Stream SIOP process, Value Stream and Site Leaders, Assume leadership position when needed to facilitate the group meeting overall objectives
- Lead process improvements within materials management team and across matrixed functions
Qualifications for senior supply chain
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Office systems essential
- Degree or Diploma in Engineering or Supply Chain discipline
- Result oriented with a strong sense of urgency
- The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by incumbents
- GPO and/or hospital supply chain/contracting experience preferred
- Ability to interpret basic financial analyses required
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Our growing company is looking for a senior supply chain. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for senior supply chain
- Creates and presents recommendations in a concise manner to management
- Able to independently extract and interpret data and complete complex ad hoc analyses
- Analyzes requirements to troubleshoot problems and/or answer questions
- Collaborates across functional groups and makes recommendations leveraging available system solutions and escalating when appropriate
- Generates new ideas and willingly supports change initiatives
- Negotiate and execute all types of procurement agreements including purchase orders, Master Service Agreements, consulting agreements and subcontracts
- Drive innovation and a focus on continuous improvement for procurement activities as a valued extended member of the Home Office International Grants, Procurement & Subcontracts Team
- Represent increasing levels of responsibility, increased interaction, and resolve issues with key executive stakeholders internally and externally without management engagement
- Develops and implements comprehensive supply chain production planning, raw material planning and replenishment, and inventory management for the Geismar Specialty Amines plants
- Identifies opportunities for improvement and understand impact to supply chain on a site, business unit and global level
Qualifications for senior supply chain
- Identifies key stakeholders, collect and analyze data, and effectively present information to drive resolution or improvement
- Drives accountability through coaching and developing direct reports and/or peers
- Breaks down barriers to resolve issues
- Thinks outside the box to creatively solve problems
- Tackles complex problems using a variety of problem solving tools to analyze the root cause and alternative solutions
- Captures the “what could go wrong” and works to eliminate or minimize the impact before changes in systems or business processes are implemented