Supply Chain & Materials Management

Company Overview

SAINT-GOBAIN HIGH-PERFORMANCE SOLUTIONS

Life Sciences, Composites, & Mobility Locations:
Merrimack, NH;
Ravenna, OH;
Puyallup, WA;
Hoosick Falls, NY;
Granville, NY;
Traverse City, MI;
Taunton, MA;
Portage, WI;
Poestenkill, NY;
Akron, OH;
Bridgewater, NJ;
Mickleton, NJ;
Gaithersburg, MD;
Clearwater, FL;
Beaverton, MI;
Worcester, MA;
San Diego, CA;
Oceanside, CA;
Bristol, RI;
Garden Grove, CA;
Wayne, NJ;
Solon, OH;
Cleveland, OH;
Orange, CT.

Saint‑Gobain is the world’s leading producer of engineered high‑performance polymer products for virtually every industry around the globe, including automotive, medical, pharmaceutical, chemical, food, beverage, airline, truck manufacturing, appliances, construction, and microelectronics. Backed by a proud heritage of product innovation, technological expertise and market leadership, Saint‑Gobain is dedicated to working with our customers to solve today’s application issues and to meet the challenges that lie ahead.

With over 170,000 employees in more than 67 countries, Saint‑Gobain is one of the world’s top 100 industrial corporations and a leader in a wide array of engineered materials.

Supply Chain & Materials Management (SCMM) will provide leadership, development, execution, and planning strategies to drive 100% customer satisfaction through supply‑chain excellence. SCMM is primarily responsible for planning, controlling, and directing activities of the Materials Department, Production Control, Shipping, Receiving, and purchasing, including forecasting and inventory control.

SCMM will lead efforts to implement new materials‑management strategies to deliver measurable improvement while reducing cost of parts and increasing turnover of operating capital. This position is key to executing the Manufacturing Operations plan to achieve best‑in‑class results in 100% on‑time delivery, maximize financial strength through effective purchasing and inventory management, lead high employee satisfaction, and achieve supplier zero‑defect quality.

Supply Chain & Materials Management works with cross‑functional teams and leads the product life‑cycle from raw material sourcing through on‑time delivery of finished product. The job scope includes production planning, schedule attainment, and material procurement and planning. Incumbents lead and execute projects in support of continuous improvement toward achieving site targets.

• Establishes strategic direction, department objectives, and provides leadership to achieve results across production control, planning and scheduling, forecasting and inventory control, shipping/receiving, traffic/transportation, warehousing, capacity utilization and planning, and purchasing.
• Oversees planning of raw material purchases/requirements and negotiates price reductions through global purchasing; improves and develops management systems for monitoring vendor performance.
• Coaches and provides subject‑matter expertise to the Supply Chain team (Schedulers, Buyers, Planners) to manage the production scheduling process with continuous improvements toward gained efficiencies; develops and maintains scheduling policies in conjunction with WCM Customer Focus Pillar.
• Ensures the purchasing activity complies with Saint‑Gobain best practices and ICRF; develops and maintains compliance with Saint‑Gobain PPL and NA purchasing policies.

• Develop and maintain strategic and tactical processes for optimal capacity planning, asset utilization, scheduling and planning, KPI performance, and lead SIOP processes.
• Lead the site’s formal strategic continuous improvement program related to customer focus and service; drive engagement within the group.
• Develop and maintain supplier performance management programs; lead planning of raw material purchases/requirements to achieve service objectives across the supply chain network.
• Provide direction and leadership to the supply chain’s functional team members in purchasing, production scheduling and planning, shipping and receiving.
• Provide a strong interface with all departments to ensure policies and systems are efficient, effective, and in concert with required…