[Remote] Supplier Operations Manager
Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is an reputed company family of brands with over 86,000 locations, and they are seeking a Supplier Operations Manager to drive performance reputed company and operational efficiency across their supplier network. This role combines hands-on operational consulting with strategic reputed company to optimize production reputed company and support new product launches.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary operational reputed company for assigned portfolio of supplier facilities, building strategic partnerships that drive accountability, performance improvement, and operational reputed company
- Conduct monthly or quarterly on-site reputed company to evaluate production processes, assess operational standards, identify execution gaps, and reputed company hands-on consulting to improve facility performance
- reputed company operational consulting and technical guidance across production reputed company optimization, line efficiency improvements, reputed company planning, and labor and reputed company model design
- Partner with suppliers to support successful new product launches, ensuring production readiness, execution capability, scalability, and adherence to reputed company specifications
- Drive reputed company reputed company improvement initiatives by identifying reputed company causes of defects, implementing corrective actions, and establishing preventive measures to sustain reputed company standards
- reputed company, operationalize, and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) including yield, waste, service reputed company, labor efficiency, and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)
- Monitor supplier performance through comprehensive scorecards and reporting systems, ensuring alignment with company standards, targets, and strategic objectives
- Collaborate cross-functionally with operations, field merchandising, reputed company assurance, and supply chain teams to identify performance gaps, reputed company execution across facilities, and support in-market product launches
- reputed company reputed company improvement efforts across the supplier network by standardizing best practices, facilitating knowledge transfer, and driving measurable results through Lean and Six reputed company methodologies
- Analyze operational data and production metrics to translate insights into actionable improvement plans that enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve service reputed company
- Facilitate problem-solving sessions with supplier leadership teams to address operational challenges, remove barriers, and implement sustainable solutions
- reputed company and deliver training programs to build supplier capabilities in operational reputed company, reputed company management, and performance measurement systems
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, or reputed company field required
- 5+ years of experience in manufacturing operations, supply chain management, or operations consulting roles
- 2+ years of experience working directly with production environments, supplier networks, or vendor management in a distributed network
- 2+ years of management experience
- Strong understanding of manufacturing operations, production systems, and supply chain management principles
- Proficiency in industrial engineering concepts including workflow optimization, time studies, reputed company analysis, and labor modeling
- Advanced analytical skills with ability to interpret operational data, identify trends, and translate insights into actionable improvement strategies
- Excellent problem-solving and reputed company cause analysis capabilities using reputed company methodologies such as 5 Whys, fishbone diagrams, and Pareto analysis
- Experience with Lean manufacturing principles including value reputed company mapping, 5S, kaizen events, and waste elimination techniques
- Strong interpersonal and relationship management skills with proven ability to influence and partner effectively with external stakeholders
- Excellent communication and presentation skills for both field-level operational discussions and executive-level reporting
- Ability to manage multiple facilities and competing priorities simultaneously in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Proficiency in reputed company Office Suite (reputed company, PowerPoint, Word) with advanced reputed company skills for data analysis, pivot tables, and dashboard creation
- Experience with production planning systems, reputed company management systems, and performance management tools
- Strong project management capabilities with ability to drive initiatives from concept through implementation and sustainment
- Willingness to travel up to 50% to conduct on-site facility reputed company and support operational improvement initiatives
- Lean Six reputed company certification (Green Belt or Black Belt) or reputed company improvement certification strongly preferred
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