Supply Chain Director

2 weeks ago

Danbury, United States Synergetics Installations Worldwide Full time
Senior Supply Chain Consultant (Director)
At Synergetics, we know what it takes to be successful in our line of work – our people Our foundation as an implementation consulting firm is built upon a core set of values and business ethics – honesty, authenticity, respect, trust, and teamwork. We embody them in everything we do. We are growing and searching for talent. If you are an experienced Supply Chain Senior Consultant (Consumer and Industrial Manufacturing experience with 10 years’ experience) - let's connect and see if we are a fit.
Who We Are?
Synergetics Installations Worldwide is owner-led and is one of the most respected firms in the management consulting industry. For nearly five decades, we have partnered with small- and mid-sized businesses to some of the world’s largest and most respected Fortune 500 enterprises. You may not have heard our name, but you would recognize the names of the companies we have helped transform.
Job Summary
As a director, you will help develop and deliver customized approaches to our service offerings to meet our client’s specific needs including supply chain planning, sourcing/capital allocation, production, and distribution. We are “hands-on” and expect deep analysis and creative solutions from each of our senior team members. We implement practical solutions to help the client to do more with what they have and innovative solutions to take advantage of techniques they have not tried.
As Part of our Team, You Will:
  • Engage with clients to understand the current state of their business and establish positive relationships that build credibility
  • Gather and analyze relevant data, systems, and processes from supply and demand perspective, conduct client interviews, and visit facilities to observe operations first-hand
  • Identify and catalog problems, challenges, risks, and opportunities
  • Develop performance metrics and construct reports that effectively represent current state and desired future state
  • Create opportunity hypothesis and proposed solutions
  • Develop and evaluate alternative strategies to achieve specific savings objectives
  • Work with clients to define requirements for tools, systems, and processes; recommend design improvements; then, provide implementation oversight including creating documentation, delivering training, and coaching
  • Create and utilize workplans to effectively prioritize and manage multiple concurrent tasks with a high sense of urgency across one or more workstreams
  • Proven ability to create and present effective recommendations, proposals, reports, and formal presentations for use in communicating findings to client management and implementation teams; present “the story”
  • Develop and maintain productive client relationships
  • Work in a hands-on mode until potential alternatives are exhausted and future state procedural workstreams are in place, tested, and fully functioning
  • Interact with peers to foster your support network and empower career development
  • Manage project resources in a team environment
  • Mentor, train, and lead team members
Required Experience and Skills
  • Must be open to travel
  • 10+ years of management consulting, advisory, manufacturing, industry, and/or hands on supervisory experience including coaching, mentorship, and performance management within Supply Chain
  • Proven critical thinking skills in both data collection and complex analysis; ability to identify data gaps and risks, develop sound conclusions, and create implementable and sustainable recommendations for improvement
  • Demonstrated exemplary and proven ability with statistical analytical tools (Powerbi) to drive objective decisions, create solutions and outcomes for a client
  • Proven experience and capabilities in implementation and change management resulting in sustainable solutions
  • An entrepreneurial mindset to collaborate with project team members / clients to design and implement effective solutions to complex business problems; continuously evaluate to uncover new opportunities
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to create communications that “tell the story”; effectively deliver presentations of content in a customer-facing forum
  • Business process mapping to document current and potential future state and use of a mapping software such as MS Visio, etc.
  • Excellent skills across entire Microsoft Office Suite
  • Demonstrated ability to utilize machine learning, AI, etc.
Plus, advanced knowledge in the following areas of specialty:
  • Supply Chain Planning: Demand Planning and Forecasting. Hands-on familiarity with statistical forecasting, metrics, and creating consensus with sales/marketing/operations on forecasting
  • ERP/MRP Remediation. Buyer/planner process understanding, shop floor dispatch/control installation, BOMs, and master data management. Evaluate system capabilities and suggest improvements/enhancements to existing functionality
  • Sourcing/Capital allocation: Optimize make/buy, spend and category analysis, supplier and SKU rationalization, value engineering and automation, and asset optimization
  • Production: Master Scheduling/Capacity Planning. Experience with ERP-based modules and system setup. sales and operations planning, productivity and layout assessment, Lean Six Sigma continuous improvement, performance management, change management, and quality management
  • Inventory Management. Detailed analysis of inventory data, targets, and achieving inventory reductions
  • Distribution: Warehouse/Facilities/Logistics & Transportation Management/Distribution Center Management. Familiarity with Warehouse Management Systems, warehouse optimization and store productivity, routing and driver dispatch, fleet management, logistics network, carrier management, 3PL/4PL, and inventory and network optimization, inventory turns, cycle counting, barcoding, and equipment maintenance.
  • Management Operating Systems (MOS)
  • Excellent communications and selling skills, ability to communicate effectively at the C suite level as well as with front line managers and workers.
Are you ready for the next step in your career? Apply Today
Supply Chain Planning: Demand Planning and Forecasting. Hands-on familiarity with statistical forecasting, metrics, and creating consensus with sales/marketing/operations on forecasting
ERP/MRP Remediation. Buyer/planner process understanding, shop floor dispatch/control installation, BOMs, and master data management. Evaluate system capabilities and suggest improvements/enhancements to existing functionality

Sourcing/Capital allocation: Optimize make/buy, spend and category analysis, supplier and SKU rationalization, value engineering and automation, and asset optimization

Production: Master Scheduling/Capacity Planning. Experience with ERP-based modules and system setup. sales and operations planning, productivity and layout assessment, Lean Six Sigma continuous improvement, performance management, change management, and quality management
Inventory Management. Detailed analysis of inventory data, targets, and achieving inventory reductions
Distribution: Warehouse/Facilities/Logistics & Transportation Management/Distribution Center Management. Familiarity with Warehouse Management Systems, warehouse optimization and store productivity, routing and driver dispatch, fleet management, logistics network, carrier management, 3PL/4PL, and inventory and network optimization, inventory turns, cycle counting, barcoding, and equipment maintenance.

Management Operating Systems (MOS)
Education, Certifications, and Software Programs
  • Bachelor’s degree required / master’s degree
  • Project Management (PMP, CPIM, APICS, Scrum, Agile) or Six Sigma certification preferred
  • Lean tools and processes
  • Anylogistix, Alteryx, EasyMorph, PowerBI, Azure, ML Studio preferred
Job Location
Synergetics employees may reside in any city, however, proximity within one hour of an international-class airport is required. With our “hands-on” approach, travel to our client sites is typically required as part of the project.

 

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