Job Overview

Lead and orchestrate supply chain management across a cluster of cable or connector factories. Serve as the single point of accountability and the primary bridge between factory teams and Global Supply Chain Management.

Job Requirements

1. Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE)

• Own consolidated schedules, supply commitments, and execution priorities across the factory cluster, providing Global SCM with timely, accurate, and actionable responses.
• Drive on-time delivery and net-sales realization by translating customer and business priorities into executable factory plans.
• Develop decision-ready scenarios and recommendations for business leaders.
• Identify and resolve plan variances, risks, and opportunities at cluster level.
• Align factories and cross-functional stakeholders on decisions, trade-offs, and commitments, and drive disciplined follow-through.

2. Capacity Planning, Balancing & Prioritization

• Lead capacity planning and load balancing across the factory cluster, including bottleneck visibility and constraint management.
• Drive dynamic scenario planning based on constrained capacity, customer priorities, revenue impact, and operational feasibility.
• Establish clear build priorities and allocation decisions, ensuring transparent communication to Global SCM and business stakeholders.
• Play a key role in new-product introduction planning, production ramp-up, and factory schedule commitments.
• Coordinate cross-factory actions to improve responsiveness, resilience, and utilization of available capacity.

3. Inventory & Material Performance

• Lead cluster-level inventory governance, including deep dives on shortages, excess and obsolete inventory, and distribution-center and factory inventory days on hand.
• Drive alignment between production schedules, material plans, procurement actions, and inventory targets.
• Ensure shortage risks are identified early, escalated with clear business impact, and managed through structured recovery plans.
• Balance service, cost, cash, and growth when recommending inventory and supply decisions.

4. Factory SCM Transformation & Execution Excellence

• Lead and collaborate on factory SCM transformation across organization design, master production scheduling, material planning, buying, and digital tool deployment.
• Assess process, system, organizational, and capacity capabilities across the factory cluster.
• Deploy standard planning processes and fit-for-purpose tools to strengthen schedule quality, material readiness, and execution discipline.
• Establish factory performance governance with clear metrics, operating rhythms, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action tracking.
• Improve the reliability of factory schedules, offers, and customer commitments through standardized processes and execution excellence.
• Lead change-management activities for business-unit and enterprise initiatives.

5. Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Act as the senior SCM focal point for the factory cluster, connecting Global SCM, factory leadership, Procurement, Operations, Engineering, Product Management, Customer Service, and Logistics.
• Build a high-performing, collaborative network across factories and functions; coach teams to strengthen planning discipline and problem-solving capability.
• Communicate risks, decisions, and required actions with clarity, urgency, and appropriate executive visibility.
• Promote end-to-end accountability and a customer-focused mindset across the cluster.

What your background should look like

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree required; master's degree preferred in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 20+ years of progressive experience in supply chain, planning, manufacturing operations, or a related field, including leadership of complex, multi-site environments.
• Strong end-to-end supply chain expertise across demand and supply planning, production scheduling, capacity planning, procurement interfaces, inventory, manufacturing coordination, and logistics.
• Demonstrated experience leading Sales & Operations Execution, constrained-capacity planning, supply recovery, and cross-factory prioritization.
• Experience driving supply chain transformation, process standardization, digital enablement, and organizational capability building.
• Project or program management experience, particularly in customer programs, new-product introduction, production ramp-up, or supply recovery.
• Proven ability to operate effectively in international organizations across regions, time zones, cultures, and matrixed reporting structures.
• Strong executive communication, analytical problem-solving, stakeholder influence, and change-leadership capabilities.