Supply Chain Manager

What you’ll do:

This role has overall leadership responsibility for the Sherman Plant Supply Chain.  The Supply Chain Manager will manage and direct supply chain personnel in the planning, procurement, and inventory control of material to ensure on-time delivery of customer orders while maintaining assigned inventory levels. This role will also work with Supply Chain Network leaders on capacity and lead time management goals and Corporate Commodity teams on supplier performance and cost out programs. Key Supply Chain related functions include materials planning, scheduling, and ordering activities associated with the delivery of specific customer products, direct and indirect material purchasing, direct source material, inventory control, cycle count, and warehousing. 

Essential Functions:

• Serve as a member of the plant’s senior management team and provide leadership and support for all local, division and corporate initiatives and objectives.
• Manage current and future demand requirements with manufacturing and supplier capabilities/capacities to ensure completion of customer requirements.
• Responsible for implementing and maintaining the plant’s SIOP (Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning) Process. Analyzes data, including enterprise requirements planning information and prepares consolidated managerial reports and recommend actions to facilitate optimal Supply Chain execution.
• Develop and perform deep analysis of SAP system health/settings to ensure effective collaboration with external suppliers on purchasing, planning, and forecasting.
• Manage plant purchasing activities for items procured on a local basis. Manage tooling/supply costs with support functions to highlight issues and takes corrective actions to ensure plant meets its profit plant objectives.
• Oversee Shipping and Receiving strategy, resource planning, and tactical execution in alignment with monthly plant and divisional profit plan and financial forecast.
• Utilize continuous improvement framework, lean concepts, and problem-solving tools to design and improve the performance of the extended supply chain function.
• Meet or exceed key metrics of days on hand, gross inventory, plant and supplier on-time delivery, cycle count accuracy, supplier invoice on-hold metrics, and profit plan/budget forecasts.
• Ensure the accuracy of physical inventory to assure the timely fulfillment of customer orders while maintaining inventory levels that are beneficial to the overall operation of the company.
• Foster an environment that promotes Eaton’s vision, encourages continuous improvement while aligning with supply chain functional requirements (i.e. Materials Management Assessment)
• Support Supply Chain organizational capabilities and bench strength through functional excellence, training, and coaching.

Qualifications:

Required (Basic) Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• Minimum five (5) years of supply chain experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Minimum two (2) years of experience managing or leading people.
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Supply Chain, or Engineering from an accredited institution
• APICS, CPIM, CSCP or CPM certification
• SAP or Oracle experience
• LEAN implementation experience