Lead SAP consultant driving comprehensive supply - chain transformations from SAP ECC to S/4HANA across cloud editions. Engage in process understanding, governance, and consulting to enhance market positioning.
About the role
- Transformative leader overseeing demand planning, procurement, and advanced manufacturing initiatives at Marmon Holdings. Driving operational excellence and unifying advanced operations across manufacturing facilities.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute a cross-site operational strategy that harmonizes planning, procurement, capacity, and manufacturing processes.
- Serve as a unifying strategic figure between facilities, bridging communication and execution gaps to drive cross-functional alignment.
- Lead and scale a cross-functional digital surgery team that will coordinate across supply chain, production, and commercial planning.
- Define operational protocols, quality controls, and technology integration for decentralized digitally enabled manufacturing.
- Oversee supplier and material purchase negotiations, inventory strategies, and capacity modeling to support dynamic production needs—including distributed manufacturing.
- Partner with engineering, quality, regulatory, and commercial teams to ensure successful platform design, compliance, and performance monitoring.
- Participates in product life cycle planning with Sales, Finance, and Product Management to determine unit demand during new product introductions, product maturity and end-of-life periods and creates strategic, long-term plans.
- Establish the processes and controls for both supply chain and non-supply chain related purchasing organization.
- Establish and utilize best practice methods to use statistics to create material planning forecasts and adjust forecasts based on changes in demand and market trends.
- Significant coordination and communication with internal Compliance Team to understand and proactively communicate to vendors, required quality compliance requirements for each supply chain related item purchased.
- Gathers performance data and measures the output to determine achievement or variance with production schedules.
- Reviews forecast metrics, analyze results to understand root cause when variability exceeds expectations and determines methods to improve forecast accuracy.
- Creates, maintains, and ensures execution of planning responsibilities for production in support of Company objectives. (Finished goods forecasting and Materials Requirements Planning).
- Develops, implements, updates and oversees procurement processes that ensure product, materials, and supplies are provided to the Company, which meet the quality, cost, delivery objectives and cost reduction strategies.
- Plans, organizes, supervises, and evaluates the work of assigned staff responsible for procurement, purchasing and materials planning.
- Identifies and leads continuous improvement efforts to streamline processes and procedures to remove nonvalue-added effort.
- Develops and implements inventory control systems to maintain and track the order status and inventory levels that meet production requirements.
- Provides leadership guidance and mentoring to direct reports.
- Develops and implements solutions to organizational challenges by leading and coaching others through changes.
- Fosters a culture of accountability and ownership within the team.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, operations, supply Chain, or related field; MBA or advanced technical degree strongly preferred.
- 12+ years of progressive leadership in manufacturing operations, supply chain strategy, and/or production innovation.
- Demonstrated Success in building and leading new operational functions
- Certification in APICS, Lean Six Sigma, or similar methodologies preferred.
- Strong understanding of ERP/MRP systems (SAP preferred), S&OP processes, and analytics tools.
- Strong statistical and analytical skills and expertise
- Strong negotiation skills with an ability to influence others
- Personnel management and team building experience
- ISO9001 / FDA GMP training preferred
- Change Management experience / cellular concept
- Superior verbal and written communication skills.
Benefits
- Diverse learning and working opportunities
- Culture of empowerment
- Positive impact on the world
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