Supply Chain Manager

Company Overview Aurorium is the materials innovation partner that helps global manufacturers harness the power of possibility to make the world a better place. Their specialty ingredients and high-performance materials enhance quality of life, support health and wellness, and enable customers to deliver value-added solutions.

Key industries served include healthcare, personal & home care, mobility, infrastructure, and paper & packaging. Aurorium follows the highest regulatory standards and is a Responsible Care® company. The company’s global integrated supply chain ensures product consistency, easy access, supply security, and timely delivery. Aurorium is committed to operating at the highest levels of manufacturing consistency, quality control, and safety.

Description The Supply Chain Manager (SCM) is responsible for optimizing supply chain efficiency and effectiveness to meet customer demands in a changing environment. The position will execute strategic international and domestic supply chain strategies that focus on customer-centric delivery on time with controlled inventory. It will oversee plant production planning to ensure due dates are met while optimizing resources and will lead the demand planning, production order variance warehousing, materials ordering, and inventory management.

The SCM is the key interface with Aurorium commercial and customers supplied by the site.

• Manages the warehouse functions to ensure customers receive timely and accurate shipments
• Leads site supply chain processes for production planning, shipping/receiving and materials ordering
• Leads the monthly Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning processes for Zeeland ensuring supply risks are escalated and actioned appropriately at the earliest opportunity
• Identifies concerns and opportunities from the site SIOP process through to the Global SIOP monthly review and leads efforts to develop the long-range strategic plan for the site
• Leads the master production scheduling (MPS) process, partnering with Operation, Maintenance and Engineering Managers to develop plans enabling all functions to perform activities and meet customer requirements while optimizing resources
• Works with the site team and Corporate Supply Chain to ensure capacity plans are in sync with longer term customer demand plans provided by SIOP
• Ensures production plans are enabled by managing raw material and packaging requirements and dealing with shortages to minimize impact on plant and customer
• Prepares and presents KPI input into SMR, weekly commercial meetings and weekly absorption tracker
• Ensures Bill of Materials provided by Process Engineers are accurately documented on SAP
• Drives inventory reduction for raw materials, intermediates, and finished goods to meet site objectives
• Leads the ABC cycle count program, investigating discrepancies to drive improvements
• Creates action plans to control SLOB (Slow Moving, Obsolete) inventory to achieve site targets
• Collaborates with purchasing and other departments with continuity plans for raw materials and identifies and develops cost savings and efficiency improvement projects
• Works with commercialization team ensuring internal and external communication on delivery performance, contributes with communication and support quality, projects and cost recovery actions
• Undertakes other duties as may be required by Vertellus Management

• Complies with company Health, Safety and Environmental policies, procedures, and arrangements
• Reports all Health, Safety and Environmental accidents, incidents and near misses promptly
• Acts in a safe and responsible manner at all times

• Active participation in continuous improvement activities
• Participates in problem-solving
• Takes responsibility and ownership for own learning and development in the spirit of continuous improvement of both self and the business
• Assists in the training, mentoring, and assessment of other team members
• Exercises autonomy and judgment subject to overall direction or guidance

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management…