Job Overview

The Senior Manager, Global Supply Chain provides strategic and operational leadership for a global, multi-disciplinary supply chain organization. This role is accountable for building organizational capability, driving enterprise-wide execution excellence, and enabling scalable supply chain processes that support business growth, resilience, and transformation.

The Senior Manager partners closely with Operations Manufacturing, Engineering, Finance, IT, and Business Leadership to ensure alignment between strategy, execution, and organizational readiness.

The role requires a strong balance of people leadership, systems thinking, change management, and operational rigor across a global footprint.

Job Requirements

Global Supply Chain Leadership

• Lead and develop a global supply chain organization, setting clear vision, priorities, and performance expectations.
• Drive standardization, scalability, and best practices across regions while enabling flexibility for business and site-specific needs.
• Serve as a key partner to senior leadership on supply chain strategy, capability gaps, and transformation initiatives.

Master Production Scheduling (MPS)

• Lead the global Master Production Scheduling organization, ensuring alignment between demand, supply, capacity, and inventory strategies.
• Establish governance, standards, and KPIs for master scheduling across regions and manufacturing sites.
• Drive consistency in MPS processes, tools, and decision-making to improve service, stability, and operational efficiency.
• Partner with Demand Planning, Manufacturing, and Materials Management to proactively manage constraints, risks, and trade-offs.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance schedule adherence, responsiveness, and scalability.

• Drive standardization, scalability, and implementation of best practices in master data processes across regions, while allowing flexibility to address business and site-specific requirements.

Purchasing Systems & Governance

• Provide global leadership and governance for tactical purchasing and materials execution, including PO placement, supplier follow‑up, shortage management, and inventory performance for purchased components across the global supply chain.
• Define and standardize enterprise best practices for tactical purchasing execution, clearly distinguishing execution ownership (Buyers) from planning and commitment ownership (MPS / Supply Planning), with clear decision rights and escalation paths.
• Own global standards for PO and supplier execution, ensuring timely PO placement, realistic supplier commit dates, disciplined follow‑up, and consistent compliance with purchasing controls and audit requirements.
• Lead enterprise shortage and inventory management practices for purchased components, driving rapid issue visibility, effective recovery, and balanced trade‑offs between service, inventory, and schedule stability in partnership with Manufacturing and Planning.
• Establish and govern a global KPI framework for tactical purchasing and materials execution (e.g., PO confirmation timeliness, supplier commit adherence, shortage aging, inventory health), driving sustained performance improvement.

Additional Requirements

Warehouse Management

• Provide global leadership and governance for warehousing, shipping, and receiving execution, ensuring consistent standards for material flow, accuracy, service performance across sites.
• Establish and standardize best practices for physical inventory management, including inventory accuracy, cycle counting, physical counts, and root cause resolution for discrepancies.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across warehousing, shipping, and receiving processes to improve throughput, accuracy, cost, and responsiveness while reducing waste and variability.
• Enable best‑practice sharing and capability building across regions by identifying high‑performing sites, codifying standard work, and driving adoption through governance and coaching.

Supply Chain Continuous Improvement & Capability Development

• Own and lead Supply Chain Continuous Improvement efforts, including Supply Chain Maturity assessments, onsite workshops, and Kaizen events, with the objective of elevating process discipline, performance, and standardization across approximately 18 manufacturing sites.
• Guide optimization of supply chain systems and planning tools, ensuring effective configuration, adoption, and alignment with standardized processes.
• Enable and support training and development activities that build functional capability, reinforce best practices, and sustain continuous improvement across the network.

What your background should look like

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business, or related field.
• 15+ years’ experience in supply chain leadership roles, including global or multi-site responsibility.
• Demonstrated success leading and developing high-performing teams at scale.
• Strong experience in production planning, master scheduling, or supply planning.
• Proven capability in project management, governance, and large-scale change deployment.
• Ability to influence and collaborate effectively with senior leaders and cross-functional partners.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present complex topics to executive audiences.
• Experience with ERP and advanced planning systems (SAP/IBP preferred).
• APICS / CPIM / CSCP or similar certifications are a plus.
• This role require 25%-50% travel to TE plants both domestic and International: Pennslyvania, California, North Carolina, Mexico, UK and France

Competencies