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
Supplier Management to maximize the value of every partnership:

  • 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


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