Director of Supply Chain Summary

Director of Supply Chain Job Opening in St. Paul, Minnesota. A well-established industrial products company in St. Paul, Minnesota is currently searching for a Director of Supply Chain to oversee their operations within North and South America. The Director of Supply Chain shall be the executive in charge of the American Supply Chain functions while working the job out of St. Paul, Minnesota. The Director of Supply Chain will create and execute all supply chain strategies within North and Latin America.

St. Paul Director of Supply Chain Overview:

This St. Paul, Minnesota job reports the the Vice President of Global Operations and is the executive directly overseeing the North and Latin America supply chain operations. The Director of Supply chain also directly oversees the Customer Service, Sales Inventory & Operations Planning, Logistics, and External Warehouse teams at the St. Paul, Minnesota site. The Director of Supply chain also serves as an integral member of the Global Operations Leadership team in addition to working in the North and South America executive team.

St. Paul Director of Supply Chain Job Opening

The Director of Supply Chain must spearhead tactical management and strategic goals of supply chain activities throughout the North and Latin American Markets through:
- Offering top of the class service levels.
- Providing competitive warehousing and logistics costs.
- Improving inventory turns and reducing inventory expenses.
- Optimizing capacity by planning, scheduling, and executing effective strategies.
- Fostering a quality culture that tolerates zero defects
Oversee such teams as: customer service; sales, inventory, and operations planning; scheduling and purchasing; logistics and freight; warehousing; inventory management; project management.
Serve as a fully function leader and identify improvement opportunities for the organization’s supply chain.
Form, brief, and manage project teams. Manage team activities, and lead the teams to improve functions.
The Director of Supply Chain must foster, manage, and lead the Americas supply chain to meet market demands will improving operational capabilities.
Maximize the effectiveness of the Americas logistics and warehousing network.
Handle the assets, expenses, and budgets related to regional supply chain while working out of St. Paul, Minnesota.
The Director of Supply Chain must engrain a culture of sustainable and continuous improvement as well as a “zero-defect” culture of quality.
Work with the Global Operations Leadership Team and the Americas Executive Team to formulate and implement plans to improve service levels, SIOP process quality, reduction of inventory, and the efficiency and effectiveness of logistics.
Supervise a combined staff of 50 workers across (S&OP, Customer Service, Logistics, and Warehouse teams) at the St. Paul, Minnesota site.
The Director of Supply Chain must manage a departmental budget of $6.5 million in addition to $31 million in freight costs and $3.5 million in warehousing costs. The supply chain supports a $900 million business across the Americas.

Director of Supply Chain (St. Paul Area) Job Requirements:

25-50% travel outside of St. Paul, Minnesota is required for this job.
Bachelor’s Degree in supply chain, engineering, or operations is required for this job.
Master of Business Administration degree is strongly preferred for this job.
10-plus years of job experience in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering; or business.
5-plus years of job experience with Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning; project management and leadership; and leadership of cross-functional teams.
Lean Six Sigma experience preferred for this job.
Contemporary ERP system job experience.
Experience re-designing a business process.
Strong leadership experience, skilled with situational leadership requirements with a high level of motivation and energy.
Proven ability to build and guide cohesive teams.
Ability to handle several priorities at once and prioritize those effectively. Thorough understanding of the big picture and the overview of the component parts.
Encourage positive change and foster innovation through open minded-ness and creativity.
Clear history of business acumen and agility.
Ability to disseminate data and understand how to identify the signal from the noise.
Eagerness to learn and polish technical skills.
Comfortable working in a matrix organization.

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