Hybrid Senior Director, Supply Chain – Advanced Operations

at Marmon Holdings, Inc.

• Job title: Senior Director, Supply Chain – Advanced Operations
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: ERP
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Addison, United States

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