Supply Chain Manager

Position Description

Legrand has an exciting opportunity for a Supply Chain Manager to join the Staline Team in Reading, UK. Are you a strategic supply chain professional with a passion for leading people, optimizing processes, and delivering operational excellence? Join DPC, Starline as our Supply Chain Manager and play a pivotal role in driving performance, improving efficiency, and ensuring customer satisfaction across the entire value chain.

• Maintain accuracy of the daily production schedules for all departments to set achievable targets.
• Maintain accuracy of the daily supplier schedules to achieve production plans to meet customer requirements.
• Liaison with Strategic Sourcing in management activities with key suppliers. Participate in supplier Q ’s as needed.
• Monitors Syteline data, inventory reports, and other data resources to determine proper on hand quantities and proper system settings.
• Use capacity planning tools to make necessary recommendations to the Production team to change production rates and / or line configurations with available labor.
• Develop and maintain rules of engagement for order management including master scheduling policy.
• Develops and maintains Master Production Schedule to ensure past due orders are minimized.
• Provide daily production / shipping performance updates against established goal.
• Evaluate the impact of expedited orders on the production plan and provide feedback to CSS’s.
• Participate in scheduling of new products (samples, first production runs,
• Assess performance, analyzes sales orders and forecasts and communicates risks to the organizations while recommending corrective actions.
• Support daily or weekly supplier meetings; engage in supplier report cards.
• Liaison with engineering drafting team as needed.
• Participate in monthly safety walks.

Education:

BS in Business, Operations Management or related or equivalent combination of education and experience. An APICS certification is desired.

• 3+ years’ experience as a Supervisor or Manager in a Manufacturing / Production Environment
• 3+ years’ experience as a Planning Manager or Master Scheduler
• 5-7 years’ experience in a manufacturing / planning role in an ETO environment

• Strong organizational and time management skills, close attention to detail and ability to effectively handle multiple priorities. Able to evaluate situations, identify options and implement effective solutions quickly and efficiently.
• Must have strong computer skills and be proficient using Excel. Ability to use Microsoft Products. Must be familiar with ERP, DRP, MRP, MRPII, or other formal computerized inventory system. Use of Access, Crystal Reports or other formal data retrieval and report writing is a plus.
• Must be highly collaborative and able to work in a team-based environment.
• Accepts sole or primary responsibility for the delivery of results and outcomes associated with the position; reliable; an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one's actions.
• Must have excellent verbal and written communications skills and be able to communicate effectively across all levels of the organization. Must be an effective listener, able to maintain focus, extract necessary information and validate understanding of the information.
• Able to create effective reports, presentations, and business correspondence.
• Strong communication team with good cross-collaboration abilities.
• Ability to maintain effective relationships with internal department personnel.
• Must have solid business acumen and understanding of a variety of functional areas within the business.

About Legrand
Legrand is the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures. Our comprehensive offering of solutions for residential, commercial, and data center markets makes us a benchmark for customers worldwide. We harness technological and societal trends with lasting impacts on buildings with the purpose of improving life by transforming the spaces where people live, work, and meet with electrical and digital infrastructures and connected solutions that are simple, innovative, and…