Director, Supply Chain; Cincinnati, OH

Location: Onsite

Status Type: Full Time

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations Management, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline or equivalent combination of education and experience; advanced degree or MBA preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive supply chain experience in manufacturing, including significant responsibility for purchasing, planning, materials, inventory, and supplier management; 5+ years in a leadership role.
• Demonstrated success ensuring component availability and preventing production disruption in a complex manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated experience establishing inventory-control systems, cycle-count programs, shortage-management processes, and purchasing controls.
• Strong ERP/MRP experience, preferably SAP, with practical understanding of how master data and transactional accuracy affect planning and execution.
• Experience managing supplier performance, capacity, lead times, delivery recovery, sourcing, negotiations, and cost improvement.
• Experience supporting new product introductions and/or time-critical commercial launches.
• Experience in medical device, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment strongly preferred.
• Experience with product sourcing, contract manufacturing, and Lean/Six Sigma or other structured continuous-improvement methods.

• Strong leadership, judgment, ownership, and accountability for outcomes; demonstrated ability to respond promptly to critical supply issues, make timely decisions, and drive closure with minimal supervision.
• Advanced planning, problem-solving, risk-management, negotiation, communication, and cross-functional leadership skills.
• Ability to translate customer demand and production plans into executable material, supplier-capacity, and purchasing plans.
• Ability to establish effective manual controls, reports, and management processes when ERP functionality or data integrity is insufficient to manage immediate business risk.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure, manage rapidly changing priorities, and personally engage in critical recovery activities.
• Strong financial acumen, including working capital, inventory, budgeting, Purchase Price Variance (PPV), and material-cost management.
• Ability to develop people, set clear expectations, manage performance, delegate effectively, and build a high-accountability team culture.

• Occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, talk or hear, reach with hands and arms
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision
• Moderate noise (i.e.: computer printers, traffic) exists daily in the work environment

• Own material availability for the approved production plan and ensure Supply Chain identifies, communicates, and mitigates component shortages before they interrupt Manufacturing.
• Establish and maintain forward-looking material-risk visibility across current demand, forecast demand, safety stock, supplier lead times, open purchase orders, and supplier capacity.
• Establish inventory policies including safety stock, reorder points, cycle counting, reconciliation, transaction discipline, and root-cause/corrective-action processes to ensure SAP inventory accurately reflects physical inventory.
• Ensure purchase orders are issued with sufficient lead time, successfully transmitted to suppliers, acknowledged, and supported by documented delivery commitments. Maintain exception controls for unacknowledged, overdue, past-due, or otherwise at-risk purchase orders.
• Lead supplier recovery and escalation for shortages, late deliveries, quality issues, and capacity constraints; ensure documented recovery plans exist for critical material risks.
• Maintain documented supplier-capacity assessments against current and forecast demand, including anticipated commercial launches and growth scenarios.
• Establish and review supplier scorecards covering on-time delivery, quality/yield, capacity, lead time, responsiveness, cost/PPV, and corrective-action performance.
• Lead production and materials planning processes, including master scheduling, MRP, demand-to-supply reconciliation, inventory coverage, and escalation of constraints.
• Partner with customer-facing demand planning, Commercial/Alliance Management, Manufacturing, Quality, Finance, Supplier Management, and other functions to align demand, supply, launch requirements, and risk mitigation.
• Lead Supply Chain readiness for new product introductions and commercial launches, ensuring components, packaging materials, supplier commitments, inventory, and logistics capabilities are in place to meet contractual customer requirements.
• Provide direct tactical leadership during critical shortages, launch activities, inventory discrepancies, supplier disruptions, and other business-critical events until stable controls and recovery plans are established.
• Drive sourcing and purchasing strategies that improve supply continuity, quality, cost, lead time, and working…