Cabinetry Supply Chain Manager

Products:        Kitchen Cabinetry

Location:        Southeast US

Our Client:   Our client is a young and expanding company positioned to scale rapidly given their consistent 100% year-over-year growth.  We are actively seeking a seasoned Supply Chain Manager with at least 2+ years of experience specifically in the kitchen cabinet, architectural millwork, furniture, or woodworking products industry. This individual will be directly responsible for sourcing raw materials and leading end-to-end supply chain operations, including vendor management, procurement, inventory optimization, forecasting, and strategic sourcing.

PLEASE NOTE: Candidates without direct experience sourcing in the kitchen cabinet, architectural millwork, furniture, or woodworking products industry will not be considered.

Position Description:  This is an ideal opportunity for a hands-on professional to lead a supply chain team through the company’s exciting rapid growth and touching all areas of operational support in vendor management, raw material replenishment, inventory management, forecasting, budgeting and continuous improvement.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supply chain organization, charged with identifying, implementing and enhancing successful methods of delivering superior service and the lowest cost
• Identify key suppliers and partners with these suppliers to develop long term mutually beneficial relationships that ensure long term success for both parties
• Build new vendors and improve the supply chain in a cost-effective manner
• Act as an internal consultant on all supply chain related issues. Design and implement improvements to Supply Chain to support business growth and improvement strategies
• Work with manufacturing to rationalize outsourcing and in-sourcing activities
• Develop inventory management strategies and programs to ensure maximum inventory turns, best price, high quality and consistent support to manufacturing

Position Requirements:

• 5+ years of increasing supply chain experience in the kitchen cabinet industry
• Must have experience sourcing wood product raw material
• Has played a key role in helping the organization in high level planning of its annual costs and budgets, both short and longer term.
• Experience working with suppliers driving innovation, from new product introductions to continuous improvement.
• Ability to implement and use analytics to drive improved supplier performance.
• Has developed and implemented strategy ensuring continuity of supply and mitigating supply chain disruptions.
• Extensive knowledge of supply chain best practices in demand planning, supply planning, production scheduling, inventory management, network optimization, and ERP systems
• Business Analytics - Knowledge of technologies, techniques and practices for the evaluation of business performance data; ability to analyze business performance using advanced statistical methods to justify and drive future business planning decisions.
• Accuracy and Attention to Detail - Understanding of the necessity and value of accuracy and attention to detail; ability to process information with high levels of accuracy.
• Business Markets - Knowledge of existing and planned markets and market-related init iatives from the perspectives of the competition, the suppliers, the customer base and the regulatory environment; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
• Procurement - Knowledge of company practices for the procurement of materials, equipment and services needed in the manufacturing process; ability to apply related knowledge, experience and skills into real work
• Must be very adept in MS Excel
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering preferred. SCM Certification an added advantage