Supply Chain Leader Location: Dallas, TX
100,000 - 200,000
Job Description:
Job Description
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Strategic Procurement to secure annual cost-savings targets:
- Perform market and supplier analyses, facilitate the bid/proposal process, develop and use supplier evaluation criteria, formulate contracts and amendments
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand business needs
- Support national/regional sourcing strategies
- Develop and execute RFIs and RFPs for sourcing initiatives
- Monitor and evaluate supplier performance, including supplier development, KPIs and process/cost improvements
- Develop and maintain suppliers capable of meeting/exceeding quality, cost, timing, technology, and service requirements
- Interface with existing and prospective suppliers to understand all offerings
- Support company target objectives by ensuring supplier commitment to quality improvement programs and cost reducing initiatives
Inventory Management to reduce costs:
- Establish and deploy strategies for inventory optimization and replenishment
- Ensure lean inventories and avoidance of OOS
- Drive process improvement for internal efficiencies
Purchasing Compliance Management to reduce waste:
- Define improvements to process and technology and partner with Accounting and IT to execute improvements
- Drive cost savings vs. approved baselines
- Manage contract compliance for all external purchases
- Develop reporting metrics on spend/contract compliance and communicate results
- Uphold internal and external policies, regulations, laws
Contract Management to maximize value and reduce risk:
- Maintain company contract repository and supplier listings
- Develop strategy to notify internal stakeholders of impending contract expiration dates and prioritize timing of renegotiation, extension, or cancellation
Demand Management to reduce cost:
- Internal benchmarking of consumption to understand variance between locations
- Define and share best practices