Supply Chain Supervisor
Description
Oversee all aspects of the supply chain processes for Hunting Subsea Technologies Stafford location. Leads purchasing initiatives, strengthen vendor relationships, and drive cost savings. This role will focus on implementing strategic sourcing methods, negotiating favorable terms, and ensuring supply chain resilience while aligning with organizational goals.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement strategic sourcing initiatives that support organizational goals and long-term business objectives.
- Create procurement strategies that balance cost, quality, lead time, and service requirements.
- Lead competitive bidding, RFQ, RFP, and supplier selection processes.
- Identify opportunities for cost savings, value engineering, and process improvements.
- Establish purchasing policies, procedures, and best practices to improve procurement efficiency.
- Foster partnerships that support business continuity and long-term supplier development.
- Serve as the primary escalation point for supplier performance issues and corrective action initiatives.
- Conduct supplier business reviews and performance evaluations.
- Develop supplier scorecards focused on OTD, Quality and Risk
- Negotiate pricing agreements, contracts, and payment terms with Supplier Partners
- Collaborate with suppliers to identify opportunities for cost reduction, lead time reduction, and improved efficiencies.
- Manage supplier qualification, onboarding, and performance improvement programs.
- Foster partnerships that support business continuity and long-term supplier development.
- Review purchase orders for accuracy, price variances and delivery needs.
- Monitor open purchase orders and expedite critical materials as needed.
- Resolve supplier delivery, quality, invoicing and pricing discrepancies.
- Coordinate procurement activities with production planning and inventory management teams.
Required Skills and Experience:
- Required: High school diploma or equivalent (GED)
- Required: 5+ years of supply chain management experience in progressively senior positions, operations experience an asset
- Preferred: A College degree in Business Administration or related field and/or the equivalent combination of education with 5 years industry experience.
- Preferred: APICS, CPSM, or CSCP certification
- Experienced with Microsoft Office programs (Excel, Word, Access, Power Point etc.)
- In depth knowledge of inventory management, production planning, material planning and sourcing
- Experience implementing enterprise planning software modules for core SCM processes
- Demonstrated ability of managing cost performance, supply/demand forecasting execution across a variety of product lines from multiple sources
- Ability to build strategic plans and development of SCM competencies
- Able to transform current business strategies to a supply chain strategy, building end to end supply chains
- Solid judgment to know what is appropriate for the company size/scope.
- Able to interface with both technical and non-technical personnel.
- Able to provide improvement to processes as required.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- This position requires an onsite presence to perform the essential duties.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, use hands to touch, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to walk; sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 20 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds (with assistance). Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment/Conditions
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
- This position will require working primarily indoors in a smoke-free office and manufacturing facility but may also require the employee to be outdoors on occasion.
- Limited travel will be required to support offsite personnel and business projects.
- Occasional assignments will require remote accessing and may include evening or weekend schedules.
- The noise level is usually moderate. Employee will occasionally work near moving mechanical parts.
Candidates are required to be authorized to work in the United States. All employees must be able to comply with the company Drug and Alcohol Policy, which includes participation in Company random drug testing. Employment is subject to background checks appropriate to the position.