Supply Chain Manager

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Why Join Pregis?

Pregis is in the packaging business to protect what matters. We are committed to providing our customers and employees sustainable growth through purpose-driven innovation and customer-centric packaging solutions. If you are looking for a company that is thriving across various high growth industries and is innovative, customer focused, high integrity, believes in strong teamwork and collaboration, Pregis is the company for you. Check out the Pregis Purpose to learn how sustainability and social responsibility is at the very core of our company DNA.

General Scope of Job

We are seeking a high-impact Supply Chain Manager to lead a turnaround in Customer Experience from our Visalia facility. Role is focused on driving a turnaround-rapidly identifying inefficiencies, implementing corrective actions, and building a culture of sustainable improvement and accountability.

The Supply Chain Manager will be responsible for the Supply Chain functions within the Visalia Site including order management, purchasing, planning/scheduling, and inventory control. This individual will maintain an ongoing focus on stability, service, inventory, and supply chain efficiencies when developing, implementing, and overseeing the execution of material and finished good planning/scheduling and strategies to enable the site to achieve its specific goals and objectives.

This individual will be responsible for ensuring the Visalia team is performing at optimal levels to ensure that all customer, internal and external, expectations are being satisfied.

Through leadership skills, this individual will provide analytical support and guidance with issue resolution and decision-making, as well as oversee the development and tracking of the appropriate processes and KPI measures to ensure success.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Planning

• Oversee production planning and scheduling programs to meet sales forecasts, balancing manpower, equipment availability while minimizing material carrying and overhead costs.
• Ensure optimal inventory levels are maintained to achieve on-time deliveries and meet customer requirements while minimizing carrying and transportation costs.
• Manage site's lead times to accurately communicate product availability
• Manage the establishment, maintenance and compliance of inventory stocking agreements
• Represent the site as the face of Pregis to key customer account relationships
• React to business conditions ensuring appropriate production volumes and inventories to enable business unit cost and service goals to be met.

Purchasing

• Work with Corporate procurement and Divisional Supply Chain to ensure that vendor supply is reliable to enable production needed to fulfill customer needs.
• Manage planning team to ensure requisitions and purchase orders are placed timely and appropriately to enable production while controlling spending constraints.

Inventory Control

• Manage cycle count programs and physical inventory events. Analyze root cause of count variances and develop and implement corrective actions.
• Manage and resolve slow moving/inactive inventory and develop plans to avoid write-offs

Administration

• Leveraging Dayforce (HRIS) manage and ensure employees are compliant with attendance, vacation, FMLA, vacation coverage and labor time clocks; provide timely approvals
• Conduct periodic employee target and objective setting and performance evaluations with supervisors and team members.
• Manage employee performance and discipline while managing company risk and liabilities

Other

• Acts as the key point of contact for all strategic Supply Chain initiatives
• Understand site P&L and drivers for performance
• Set the tone for the department culture, with emphasis on Safety, Quality, Profitability, and People Development. Attract, retain and develop key talent within the site.

Qualifications & Experience

• BS/BA Supply Chain Management, required.
• Minimum of 10 years' experience in a Materials Management/Supply Chain, 5 years in a management role.
• Strong SAP system experience and usage to drive results.
• Proven track record of project management skills
• Strong knowledge of supply chain concepts/process and ability to apply them
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret various reports and documents.
• Ability to present issues clearly and concisely; generate accurate analysis, with a good understanding of the cause and effect that will occur with each alternative solution both inside and outside the Supply Chain
• Ability to lead cross functional decision-making processes with all levels of employees
• Intermediate level or better of Microsoft Office Suite (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, SharePoint and MS Teams) expected
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid and concise conclusions and/or recommendations.
• Ability to travel up to 10%.

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Diversity and Inclusion

We believe in diversity of thought and bringing together other traits and characteristics that make an individual bring a unique experience to Pregis. We strive to foster an inclusive environment where behaviors and social norms ensure people are welcome.

Affirmative Action/EEO Statement/Inclusion

We offer equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type based on race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. We support inclusion and believe in welcoming a collective sum of individual differences, thoughts, traits, and characteristics to represent Pregis' culture and achievements.

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