Oversee North American supplier manufacturing from a supply chain and logistics perspective.
Demand strategic thinking, effective leadership, and the capability to manage multiple issues simultaneously across various plants and suppliers.
Leverage sense of urgency and responsiveness to plant needs to protect the daily and weekly schedules.
Act as change agent needing to find efficiencies in current state operations to allow the new tools to expand our horizon for evaluating supply risks.
Empower continuous improvement mindset to seek and mitigate premium costs.
Work with the Ascent and Pega tools.
Provide communication and dimension of risk as needed to escalate to leadership.

Requirements

A bachelor's degree
Prior experience in a manufacturing or supply chain organization
Knowledge of or experience in Ford with production planning and execution
A proven track record in supply chain operations (inbound flows / Packaging / outbound flows / diversity / demand & supply planning / in-plant logistic operations / warehouse management)
Well-versed with MS Office Tools (Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
Bias for action in identifying and working to solve issues identified in the clear to build horizon.
Strong data analytical skills to gather data from multiple sources to identify root causes, trends & insights and recommend operational improvements on Supplier Delivery Performance
Strong storytelling capabilities with data to enable data driven decision making benefiting the organization
Strong knowledge of Ford MP&L systems like CMMS, Super G, GCP, MCPV, etc
Knowledge of Alteryx or similar data analysis tools desired
Knowledge of SAP.

Benefits

Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
Tuition assistance
Established and active employee resource groups
Paid time off for individual and team community service
A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

supply chain operationsproduction planningdata analysiswarehouse managementlogistics operationsdemand planningsupply planningcost mitigationcontinuous improvementroot cause analysis

Soft Skills

strategic thinkingleadershipcommunicationproblem-solvingdata storytellingmulti-taskingsense of urgencyresponsivenesschange managementanalytical thinking

Certifications

bachelor's degree