Regional Supply Chain Director - Remote, United States - American Tire Distributors

Description

Position Description:

The Regional Supply Chain Director ("RSCD") is responsible for multi-site management and integrating business process activities within their territory, which are in Supply Chain or related to Supply Chain's activity, to deliver safe, cost-effective performance with a customer centric mindset. In addition, the RSCD will collaborate with the RP to ensure profitable inventory and operations. The RSCD is also responsible for coaching and managing General Manager performance. Lastly, the RSCD will execute and deploy supply chain initiatives driven by the Supply Chain Field Support Center, to ensure continuous improvement.

Primary Responsibilities:

Manage regional operations controlling inventory accuracy, product movement, warehouse operations, fleet operations, and on-time delivery performance to deliver cost effective performance and high customer satisfaction.

Coach and manage DC General Manager performance, collaborate with Supply Chain leadership across supply chain operations and strategy

Collaborate with Sales to define and execute on regional strategies to drive market growth

Collaborate with up-stream supply chain leadership to ensure profitable inventory, product assortment, and product movement with DC networks

Manage overall cost of end-to-end P&L for assigned DCs

Establish and maintain a presence at all assigned DCs to ensure performance meets and exceeds standards;

Ensure adherence to safety-related policies and procedures to improve employee safety.

Implement and maintain the standardization of best practices in operations

Own regional supply chain talent pool and leadership development (creating pipeline and succession plans)

Direct Reports:

Distribution Excellence Managers

Key Partners

VP Operations

VP Operational Strategy

VP Transportation

Dir Mixing Center

HR Director

Safety Manager

Region President

Regional Sales Operations Directors

Director of Sales

Experience(s) that Best Prepares You:

Education : Bachelor's Degree from a 4-year college or university or equivalent work experience required

Experience : Management experience and a minimum of 7-10 years distribution operations experience. Experience in managing large remote or multi-site teams required. Experience in leading Business / Function transformation; preferred.

Key Competencies:

Proven leader; strong manager and coach of direct reports

Strong customer orientation

Deep knowledge of supply chain operations, understanding of root cause analysis and continuous improvement methodology

Ability to work within established policies and procedures

Analytical ability to identify key trends and areas for operations performance improvement

Ability to develop healthy business relationships and collaborate cross-functionally to drive organizational change and support change management

KPI-Orientated to achieve business objectives

Strong presentation, verbal & written communication skills

Physical Demands/Work Environment/Travel Requirements:

Physical demands: Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands and fingers, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk, hear, taste and/or smell; the employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to weather conditions prevalent at the time. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Travel required: 90% of the time, travel throughout the assigned territory and will require overnight stays. Travel could include both automobile and air travel.