Manager – Supply Chain Engineering

Manager – Supply Chain Engineering

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from four-year college or university (Industrial Engineering or technical supply chain experience preferred)
• 5+ years of related supply chain facilities or engineering experience with at least 5 of those as a manager in a professional or technical setting is required; or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Ability to manage a team remotely
• Demonstrated success handling multiple assignments, strong prioritization skills, and a proven ability to manage complex projects on time and budget
• Effective communicator with the ability to manage through influence
• Good verbal and written skills to communicate with TMs and all levels of management
• Strong team builder in working cross functionally
• Demonstrated understanding of customer demands and needs, responding with urgency to critical situations, lead management communications and provide collaborative resolutions to problems
• Agile response to business needs, demonstrating appropriate sense of urgency, leadership and creativity to maintain business continuity
• Success in projects related to process design, work measurement, productivity improvement, cost reduction, Kaizen 5S, and project implementation required
• Demonstrated strong analytical and problem solving (critical and evaluative thinking) skills to analyze complex data for trends and translate into actionable business recommendations
• Highly developed problem solving and prioritization skills that will be demonstrated by the successful and timely completion of assignments
• Demonstrated teaching technical competency in process improvement and design work
• Ability to drive projects and accept accountability for project progress (on-time, on-budget, quality of work)
• Proficient skills in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, and PowerBI
• SQL Experience with work measurement methodologies and tools with an emphasis on TIME STUDY expertise required
• Experience with Lean, Six Sigma, or other process improvement methodology
• AutoCAD experience and ability to read blueprints
• Experience in DC Operations and with HighJump WMS a plus
• Bilingual Team Members (particularly Spanish-speaking) a plus

Responsibilities

• Direct line management of Industrial Engineers, who will receive dotted line guidance from the DC GMs
• Provide direct supervision of resources involved in ideation and delivery of projects and initiatives in support of the business strategy and operating objectives
• Direct engineers to ensure projects progress on schedule and within the prescribed budget
• Develops a high-performance team that supports the distribution centers competently by hiring strong team members, communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; developing, coordinating, and enforcing policies, procedures, and productivity standards
• Create and maintain business relationships that result in a clear understanding of supply chain business needs and how industrial engineering solutions can meet them
• Responsible for removing productivity barriers, with emphasis on problem resolution, process improvement, business support and the development of collaborative relationships within supply chain and partner departments
• Work with all distribution locations and cross functional teams to ensure process changes are successfully implemented. Prepare documentation, including SOP development modification for assigned projects
• Works with operations to assess issues, develop recommendations and implement business improvement processes
• Creates an improvement process methodology that identifies, captures, and applies improvements to work process development and maintenance methodologies based on lessons learned, industry best practices, and feedback from customers
• Utilizes Lean and Six Sigma methodology to drive & sustain continuous improvement
• Direct the development and implementation of on-going process improvements in the facilities to move to world class operations within the supply chain
• Partner with Store Operations, DC Operations, and AAP Vendors to create a customer focused distribution environment (provides safe, accurate, damage free shipments to our stores that are easy to unload and put away)
• Proactively monitor SKU velocity and other sales events to properly slot SKUs for customer focused distribution
• Evaluate opportunities for SKU consolidations and re-warehousing for efficient storage and customer focused distribution
• Develops analysis and cost justification on capital project requests when needed
• Works with DC and other cross functional departments (including IT partners) to configure a stable, standard and scalable reporting platform for the organization
• Helps establish appropriate metrics and reports to guide leadership

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in DC Operations and with HighJump WMS a plus
• Bilingual Team Members (particularly Spanish-speaking) a plus