About the Role:
As the Vice President, Supply Chain, you will be a key member of the leadership team. You will be responsible for managing and developing a talented team responsible for ensuring risk mitigation, continuity of supply, and product affordability for upcoming New Product Introductions and Sustaining Production.
What You’ll Do:
Cost and Commodity Management
- Develop and deliver strategy for commodities and end products.
- Negotiate contracts with suppliers and end manufacturers.
- Manage the supply chain by monitoring, reporting, and providing direction on issues which could affect quality, delivery, or pricing.
- Perform industry benchmarking and supplier risk assessments. Build and communicate mitigation plans.
- Maintain electronics industry intelligence on technology trends, sourcing options and competitive pricing.
- Develop alternate sources for current/future product needs and technologies from a worldwide market.
- Improve cost models and forward costing analysis tools.
- Develop should cost models
- Develop business relationships with a global supply chain
- Drive strategy in make/buy decisions.
Strategy and Demand Planning
- Lead, manage, and direct S&OP, Forecasting, Planning, Procurement, Order Management, etc.
- Partner with product development and finance to develop a manufacturing and logistics strategy to support a rapidly growing product line
- Collaborate with stakeholders to keep up with customer/inventory demand
- Assess current and future operational risks globally and locally, and translate those into strategies.
- Manage internal ordering processes to optimize inventory, ensuring supplier and manufacturing compliance for legal, regulatory and sustainability requirements and goals
Logistics
- Develop and deploy logistics, inventory, and warehousing performance standards that support and align with company strategy and customer expectations
- Drive COGs reduction through a robust logistics strategy
- Collaborate with Tax and Trade Compliance on execution of logistics strategy and footprint
Continuous Improvement
- Work closely with engineering leadership to collaboratively develop, direct, and implement manufacturing process and product improvement strategies
- Build an Operations Program Management team to own and drive continuous improvement and efficiency at the factory leading to better efficiency and cost.
Operations Infrastructure
- Align with IT and BizOps teams to implement reports, dashboards, and more.
- Establish and maintain performance metrics for all associated Hardware Ops functions in Cost, Shipping, Production, and Returns & Repairs
What We’re Looking For:
- Minimum 10 years of experience in supply chain & logistics operations with previous experience leading a team
- Previous experience running supply chain for a devices company (either B2B devices or consumer devices okay)
- A bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain/Logistics or Business is required, and a master’s degree is preferred
- Demonstrated leadership skills with ability to build out a new team globally
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to perform data analysis to craft tactical operational recommendations
- Ability to learn new concepts and technologies quickly
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills