Supplier Fulfillment Leader

At Dexter, we manufacture and distribute axles, accessories, and towing components primarily serving the commercial trailer, RV, marine, agriculture, and manufactured housing markets. We’re building products and systems that are rooted in a culture of safety, collaboration, and innovation.

Headquartered in Elkhart, Indiana, Dexter has manufacturing and distribution locations throughout the U.S. and Canada. Employing state-of-the-art robotics, precision welding equipment, and automated machining processes, Dexter has achieved over 65 years of success through a commitment to the principles of superior quality, continuous improvement, and unparalleled customer service.

We are seeking a Supplier Fulfillment Leader to build and lead an enterprise Supplier Fulfillment function that connects supplier execution to customer commitments, material availability, revenue, manufacturing continuity, inventory productivity and working capital performance. This leader will own the Supplier Fulfillment Control Tower, guide supplier recovery and escalation, and partner across SIOP, Procurement, Manufacturing, Operations, Quality, Engineering, Logistics, Finance and Commercial teams to prevent shortages, improve supplier performance and increase shipment readiness.

This is a manager-level role for a business-oriented supply chain leader who can develop people, create scalable operating rhythms, make data-driven tradeoff recommendations and convert supplier risk into clear action plans, executive decisions and measurable business outcomes.

• Define the Supplier Fulfillment operating model, governance cadence, decision rights and maturity roadmap for a multi-site manufacturing environment.
• Build, coach and develop a high-performing Supplier Fulfillment team with clear goals, standard work, performance expectations and career development plans.
• Create enterprise standards for shortage prevention, supplier recovery, fulfillment escalation, supplier commit validation and cross-functional issue closure.

• Lead daily, weekly and monthly control tower routines that surface supplier constraints, critical material risks, recovery status, capacity issues and revenue-at-risk exposure.
• Lead Critical Material Reviews with Procurement, SIOP, Manufacturing, Operations, Finance, Logistics, Quality, Engineering and Commercial partners.
• Provide executive-ready visibility to supplier risks, recovery plans, tradeoffs, owners, due dates, mitigation actions and required decisions.

• Develop supplier scorecards and segment suppliers by criticality, risk, performance, revenue dependency, capacity exposure and recovery maturity.
• Lead recovery plans for constrained, high-risk and underperforming suppliers, including supplier executive alignment, capacity validation, contingency actions and milestone governance.
• Deploy A3 problem solving and Supplier Improvement Plans in partnership with Quality, Procurement and suppliers to eliminate chronic performance gaps and repeat shortages.

• Represent Supplier Fulfillment in SIOP/IBP forums so supplier constraints, capacity risks, inventory health and recovery assumptions are reflected in supply plans and executive demand/supply reviews.
• Partner with Commercial, Customer Service and Finance to identify sales upside, backlog recovery, customer-priority tradeoffs and shipment enablement opportunities tied to material availability.
• Translate supplier recovery dates into production sequencing, line-of-balance reviews, customer communication assumptions and fiscal-period revenue support.

• Serve as the enterprise subject matter expert for supplier fulfillment, supply planning, inventory planning and material flow.
• Optimize lead times, MOQ, EOQ, order multiples, safety stock, Min/Max and PFEP to balance service, cost, supplier capability, manufacturing continuity and cash performance.
• Improve material availability while…