Supply Chain Director

Description

The Director of Supply Chain leads IMI's end-to-end Supply chain function, integrating demand and production planning, procurement, supplier performance, inventory control, warehousing, fulfillment, and logistics. The Director establishes the management systems, decision rights, and cross-functional handoff require to translate customer demand into reliable material and product flow. This role is accountable doe improving delivery reliability, inventory performance, planning discipline, supplier performance, and ERP/MRP adoption while developing the existing Supply Chain team and protecting operating continuity.

Duties and Responsibilities:

· Propose and execute strategic and tactical programs and plans designed to enhance gross profit, maintain high product quality, and deliver product in full and on time to our customers.

· Lead the integrated Supply Chain organization and develop the managers, supervisors, and functional owners responsible for planning, purchasing, inventory control, warehousing, fulfillment, and logistics.

· Establish and lead the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process, including demand review, supply and capacity review, inventory and service risk assessment, scenario evaluation, and executive decision support.

· Own the end-to-end planning framework from demand signals through the Master Production Schedule (MPS), material requirements, capacity planning, production scheduling, and customer delivery commitments.

· Ensure the production plan balances customer priorities, capacity, labor, materials, equipment constraints, inventory objectives, and approved business priorities.

· Develop and manage the Supply Chain operating budget, including staffing, inventory-related costs, freight, warehousing, outside services, and approved cost-improvement initiatives.

· Provide governance for schedule changes, frozen-fence exceptions, shortages, expedites, and other trade-offs that affect customer commitments, operating stability, cost, or inventory.

· Lead procurement and material planning practices that support material availability, prudent inventory levels, supplier performance, cost control, and continuity of supply.

· Establish supplier performance management in partnership with Quality Assurance, including delivery, responsiveness, risk, and corrective-action follow-up. Quality retains ownership of supplier quality requirements, qualification, and quality-system decisions.

· Develop sourcing strategies for critical materials and services, including supplier selection, pricing and contract negotiations, dual-sourcing opportunities, lead-time reduction, and supply-risk mitigation.

· Provide leadership for inventory control, warehouse operations, finished-goods fulfillment, shipping, freight, and logistics, with clear accountability for transaction discipline, inventory accuracy, and on-time, in-full shipment execution.

· Establish clear decision rights and operating handoffs with Customer Experience & Growth, Manufacturing Operations, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality Assurance, Finance, and Information Systems.

· Partner with Manufacturing Operations to maintain the distinction between plan ownership and execution ownership: Supply Chain owns and governs the approved plan; Manufacturing Operations owns execution against the plan and timely communication of constraints and variances.

· Lead enterprise adoption of new ERP system, identify and retire approved manual workarounds as system capability becomes available.

· Define, monitor, and review Supply Chain performance measures, including forecast accuracy, production schedule attainment, material shortages, supplier on-time delivery, inventory turns, inventory accuracy, DIFOT, and ERP process adoption.

· Use data, root-cause analysis, and corrective action to address recurring service, schedule, supplier, inventory, and material-flow issues.

· Prepare clear executive-level assessments of supply, demand, capacity, inventory, and delivery risks, including recommended trade-offs and decisions required.

· Develop standard work, policies, review cadences, escalation paths, and succession capability across the Supply Chain organization.

· Build a collaborative, accountable Supply Chain culture that integrates existing functional expertise rather than operating as separate planning, purchasing, warehouse, or logistics silos.

· Maintain compliance with applicable regulatory, quality, safety, customer, and company requirements.

· Other duties as assigned.

Key Decision Rights:

· Govern the approved production plan and production-scheduling priorities within established business rules and approved customer commitments.

· Approve or escalate planning exceptions based on defined thresholds and documented impact to service, cost, capacity, inventory, or quality.

· Set Supply Chain operating priorities, management cadences, performance standards, and resource recommendations.

· Recommend inventory, sourcing, supplier-risk, freight, and capacity trade-offs to the appropriate executive or cross-functional decision body.

· Escalate decisions outside the role's authority, including changes to customer commitments, material financial exposure, significant supplier or continuity risk, and matters reserved for Quality or executive approval.

Requirements

· Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, operations, industrial engineering, business, or a related field; equivalent progressive experience may be considered.

· Minimum of 7 years of progressive experience across supply chain, production planning, procurement, materials management, manufacturing operations, inventory, or logistics in a manufacturing environment.

· Minimum of 3 years of formal people leadership or significant cross-functional leadership experience, including responsibility for managers, supervisors, functional owners, or enterprise processes.

· Demonstrated ability to connect demand, capacity, materials, scheduling, inventory, supplier performance, and customer service into an integrated operating plan.

· Working knowledge of ERP / MRP concepts, Master Production Scheduling, Bills of Materials, routings, lead times, inventory controls, and manufacturing constraints.

· Demonstrated ability to lead organizational and process change while maintaining day-to-day operating continuity.

· Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to interpret operational and financial trade-offs and convert data into decisions.

· Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present risks, options, and recommendations to senior leadership.

· Demonstrated judgment, accountability, collaboration, and ability to resolve cross-functional priorities under pressure.

Preferred Qualifications

· Experience leading or implementing S&OP, demand planning, supply planning, or integrated business planning processes.

· Experience implementing or significantly improving ERP / MRP planning, purchasing, inventory, warehouse, or scheduling processes.

· Experience in a regulated manufacturing environment such as medical device, pharmaceutical, or a comparable industry.

· Professional certification such as ASCM CPIM or CSCP, or equivalent demonstrated knowledge.

· Experience with supplier performance management, strategic sourcing, business continuity, and inventory optimization.

· Lean, Six Sigma, or structured continuous-improvement experience.

· Advanced proficiency with Excel, business intelligence tools, or supply-chain analytics.

Leadership Expectations:

· Lead through clear ownership, operating discipline, and fact-based decision-making rather than informal escalation or individual heroics.

· Develop existing functional leaders and create an effective leadership team across planning, purchasing, inventory, warehouse, and logistics.

· Balance strategic capability building with reliable daily execution.

· Create transparency around constraints and trade-offs early enough for the organization to act.

· Protect cross-functional accountability: Supply Chain coordinates the system but does not absorb responsibilities that properly remain with Manufacturing Operations, Quality, Finance, Customer Experience, or other functions.

Physical / Mental Demands:

· The job is performed in office, manufacturing-floor, and warehouse setting. Required protective clothing or personal protective equipment may apply in designated areas.

· Work requires sitting, standing, and walking for extended periods and regular movement between office and operating areas.

· Must be able to concentrate, exercise sound judgment, analyze complex and competing priorities, and communicate effectively in a fast-paced environment.

· Work may require occasional evening or weekend availability to support significant operating issues, inventory activities, or business requirements.