Director, Manufacturing Supply Chain

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of planners, buyers, production schedulers, and inventory control professionals supporting multiple brands.

• Define the organizational structure, roles, and responsibilities needed to run a standardized multi-brand planning model.

• Set clear performance expectations, coach and develop leaders, and build succession for critical roles.

• Foster a culture of accountability, standard work, collaboration, and data-driven decision making.

• Foster a culture of accountability, standard work, collaboration, and data-driven decision making.

• Design, deploy, and sustain a standardized planning and inventory management solution across brands and manufacturing locations.

• Establish common planning policies, including planning parameters, lot sizing, safety stock methodology, and inventory segmentation.

• Harmonize master data standards (items, BOMs, routings, lead times, vendors) to enable consistent planning output and reporting.

• Partner with IT and ERP owners to align system configuration with standardized processes.

• Partner with IT and ERP owners to align system configuration with standardized processes.

• Own inventory planning for raw materials, components, work-in-process, and finished goods.

• Lead the supply side of Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) and run the Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) cadence.

• Balance service levels, inventory investment, and working capital against clear inventory targets.

• Manage excess, obsolete, and shelf-life inventory risk, and drive inventory accuracy through cycle counting and root cause analysis.

• Manage excess, obsolete, and shelf-life inventory risk, and drive inventory accuracy through cycle counting and root cause analysis.

• Lead direct materials purchasing, including order placement, expediting, and delivery performance.

• Establish standardized purchasing processes and approval controls across brands.

• Partner with Strategic Sourcing on contracts, pricing, and lead-time commitments, and own tactical execution.

• Partner with Strategic Sourcing on contracts, pricing, and lead-time commitments, and own tactical execution.

• Build and lead a supplier relationship management program, segmenting suppliers by spend, criticality, and risk.

• Run structured business reviews with key suppliers covering performance, capacity, cost, quality, and improvement plans.

• Drive collaborative planning with strategic suppliers, including forecast sharing, capacity reservations, and consignment or vendor-managed inventory where appropriate.

• Partner with Quality on supplier corrective actions and supplier development programs for underperforming suppliers.

• Resolve supply disruptions quickly through strong supplier relationships and clear escalation paths.

• Resolve supply disruptions quickly through strong supplier relationships and clear escalation paths.

• Define and deploy a standardized supplier scorecard used consistently across all brands and sites.

• Measure and report supplier on-time in-full (OTIF) delivery, lead-time adherence and lead-time trends, quality performance (defect rates and corrective actions), purchase price variance, and responsiveness.

• Use scorecard results to drive supplier reviews, improvement plans, and sourcing decisions.

• Provide leadership with clear visibility into supplier performance trends and supply risk.

• Provide leadership with clear visibility into supplier performance trends and supply risk.

• Identify single-source, sole-source, long-lead-time, and capacity-constrained materials, and maintain a supply risk register.

• Lead alternate and dual sourcing strategies in partnership with Strategic Sourcing, Engineering, and Quality.

• Coordinate qualification of alternate suppliers and materials through supplier qualification and change control processes.

• Establish mitigation plans, including strategic buffers and safety stock, for high-risk materials.

• Establish mitigation plans, including strategic buffers and safety stock, for high-risk materials.

• Own production planning and floor scheduling across multiple manufacturing processes.

• Build and maintain capacity plans for labor, equipment, and work centers, with a firm scheduling horizon that stabilizes the shop floor.

• Partner daily with site operations leaders to resolve constraints, sequence work, and improve schedule attainment.

• Reduce changeovers, expedites, and fragmented work orders to improve throughput.

• Support new product introductions, product transfers, and end-of-life transitions with integrated material and capacity plans.

• Support new product introductions, product transfers, and end-of-life transitions with integrated material and capacity plans.

• Partner with brand leadership, Commercial, Finance, Quality, Engineering, Operations, and Distribution to align supply chain plans with business strategy.

• Translate business priorities into supply chain roadmaps and investment cases.

• Present risks, trade-offs, and recommendations clearly to executive leadership.

• Collaborate with supply chain leaders at other manufacturing campuses to align processes and share best practices.

• Collaborate with supply chain leaders at other manufacturing campuses to align processes and share best practices.

• Define and govern a standardized KPI framework for planning, inventory, purchasing, suppliers, and scheduling, aligned across brands and align with other manufacturing campuses.

• Align on common data definitions and a single source of truth for supply chain performance.

• Deliver tiered dashboards, from daily floor metrics to monthly executive reviews, that support forward-looking decisions.

• Key measures include inventory turns, days of supply, excess and obsolete inventory, customer fill rate, backorders, schedule attainment, forecast accuracy, supplier OTIF, purchase price variance, and inventory accuracy.

• Key measures include inventory turns, days of supply, excess and obsolete inventory, customer fill rate, backorders, schedule attainment, forecast accuracy, supplier OTIF, purchase price variance, and inventory accuracy.

• Lead network transformation for planning, purchasing, supplier management, and scheduling processes. Ensuring optimized inventory balancing and production scheduling across multiple manufacturing locations.

• Map current-state processes, remove waste and variation, and deploy standardized future-state processes with documented standard work and training.

• Apply Lean, Six Sigma, and change management methods to drive adoption and sustain results.

• Evaluate and implement planning, analytics, and scheduling tools that deliver measurable value.

• Evaluate and implement planning, analytics, and scheduling tools that deliver measurable value.

• Ensure supply chain processes comply with the FDA Quality Management System Regulation (21 CFR Part 820), ISO 13485:2016, and EU MDR 2017/745, including purchasing controls, supplier controls, and traceability.

• Own supply chain procedures and records within the quality management system and support audits and inspections.

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Operations Management, Business, or a related field.

• 10+ years of progressive manufacturing supply chain experience, including inventory planning, purchasing, supplier management, and production planning and scheduling.

• 5+ years leading managers and multi-functional teams.

• Proven success leading process standardization or transformation across multiple sites, brands, or business units.

• Demonstrated experience managing supplier relationships, supplier scorecards, and alternate sourcing programs.

• Experience in a regulated manufacturing environment; medical device strongly preferred.

• Strong knowledge of MRP/ERP planning, S&OP, inventory optimization, and capacity planning.

• Proven ability to define KPIs, build dashboards, and use data to drive decisions.

• Excellent communication skills with audiences from the shop floor to executive leadership.

• Excellent communication skills with audiences from the shop floor to executive leadership.

• ASCM certification (CPIM or CSCP) and/or Lean Six Sigma Green or Black Belt.

• Experience with Infor Distribution A+ or a comparable ERP, plus MES, WMS, and advanced planning systems.

• Working knowledge of FDA QMSR, ISO 13485:2016, and EU MDR requirements for purchasing, supplier controls, and traceability.

• Experience in multi-brand or post-acquisition integration environments.