Director of Supply Chain

Position Summary

The Director of Supply Chain provides strategic and operational leadership for Purchasing, Demand & Supply Planning (S&OP), Logistics, Field Service & Installation, and Customer Service across three business units. This role establishes unified supply chain standards, harmonizes raw materials and purchased components between locations, and ensures alignment with global pricing, landed cost structures, and KPI standards. The director sets annual performance expectations for their team, governs vendor and partner relationships at the regional level, and ensures supply chain processes, systems, and metrics are fully aligned, scalable, and capable of aggregation to the global level.

Vice President of Operations, Grenzebach Corporation

Sr. Manager, Customer Service;
Sr. Manager, Procurement

• Execute a North American make-or-buy strategy in collaboration with site leadership and Global Supply Chain.
• Establish and maintain a Sales and Operations Planning Process.
• Maintain Customer satisfaction from Installation to Service.
• Define and maintain the purchasing footprint aligned to business unit strategies.
• Establish binding field service and installation, customer service, purchasing, planning, and logistics standards in alignment with global governance.
• Set yearly supply chain performance objectives and ensure accountability through KPI governance.
• Lead training and qualification of supply chain resources.

• Develop and execute regional purchasing strategies for material categories, harmonized with Corporate.
• Lead or participate in major supplier negotiations, contract awards, and framework agreements.
• Establish and enforce supplier performance standards (quality, delivery, cost).
• Set and govern target costs for procurement.
• Ensure price harmonization with global pricing, including landed cost alignment.
• Manage intercompany purchase orders and cross-border sourcing strategies.

• Establish and maintain RFQ processes to enable customer satisfaction in line with global KPI’s.
• Ensure efficient installation and customer service.
• Adhere to customer service levels agreed to and in line with global standards.
• Ensure regional production and material planning meets cost and delivery commitments.
• Manage discrepancies between Business Units where planning conflicts occur.
• Develop and maintain a “make to stock” strategy and adhere to contractually required stock levels.
• Coordinate intercompany material flows and shipments.
• Ensure resource planning standards are aligned across locations.
• Accelerate supply chain parts delivery times to support data center solutions growth.
• Support manufacturing assembly efficiency through sequencing and kitting of parts as required.
• Logistics & Delivery Performance – ensure delivery reliability to customers based on committed delivery dates.
• Optimize end-to-end logistics flow from supplier through production to customer.
• Ensure global logistics-related target costs are met.
• Coordinate intercompany shipments and customs-related activities across the region.

• Supply Chain performance
• Planning performance
• Supplier performance
• Logistics effectiveness
• Cost compliance and inventory efficiency

Ensure KPI design supports aggregation to the Global level.

Ensure KPI standards are consistent and aligned with Global benchmarks.

Provide executive-level reporting to the VP of Operations, CEO and Global Supply Chain leadership.

• Provide functional leadership to Customer Service, Planning, Purchasing, and Logistics.
• Serve as the regional escalation point for Customer, supplier, logistics, planning, and intercompany issues.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement, cost discipline, and cross-site collaboration.
• Perform as a member of the Operations Leadership Team in Newnan, GA.

• Bachelor’s degree in business or engineering or 10 plus years equivalent Supply Chain Management experience.
• SAP Experience is a…