Director of Supply Chain

About AJR Enterprises:

AJR Enterprises, a UFP Technologies company, is a leader in developing and manufacturing single use safe patient handling systems; specializing in 'cut and sew' manufacturing services and advanced fabric technologies.

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability Insurance
• 401K with a matching contribution
• Paid time off, Paid holidays, Employee discounts and much more!

Location: This position will be on-site full-time in St. Charles, IL.

The Director of Supply Chain of AJR Enterprises, a UFP Technologies company, is responsible for defining the regional supply chain strategy across sourcing, procurement, logistics, trade compliance, planning, warehouse, and inventory control operations for all entities: AJE, ASP, CFP, and AJI. Leads supply chain design and deployment for a growing multi-site manufacturing footprint, including warehouse infrastructure, replenishment systems, material flow optimization, and future-state network design.

Leads supply chain transformation, including ERP-enabled process redesign, system improvement, and the buildout of scalable supply chain infrastructure.

The role collaborates with the General Manager, Director of Product Development, Director of Operations, Director of Continuous Improvement, customers, and other organizational leaders to evaluate new suppliers and materials and to develop and manage strategic supplier relationships. The Director of Supply Chain is also engaged in purchasing and distributing raw materials, equipment, machinery, supplies, products, and services from vendors to maintain production levels at the highest quality and lowest cost.

The position works toward common procurement, sourcing, and spend goals across all plants within the division and develops and educates team members on best practices for divisional sourcing functions.

• Responsible for the entire SIOP processes (Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning)
• Develops and leads regional supply chain strategy aligned with business objectives.
• Leads ERP-enabled supply chain transformation (Sage environment).
• Builds processes, controls, and data integrity across the supply chain.
• Leads all trade compliance related activities collaborating with customers, sales, commercial team, logistics, and external consultants.
• Continuously monitors changes in the trade regulatory compliance legal framework. Investigates best practices for free trade agreements compliance, duty drawback processes, tariff classifications definitions, sanctions screening:
  Restricted Party Screening (RPS) and Denied Party Screening (DPS).
• Promotes Safety, Security and regulatory compliance in all Supply Chain activities.
• Ensures supply chain activities comply with customer quality agreements, trade and logistics regulations, and applicable quality system requirements, including CFR 820 and ISO 13485.
• Supports engineering procurement requirements in support of product development.
• Establishes purchasing and inventory management policies and procedures to accomplish procurement of a variety of materials in a cost-effective manner and ensures compliance within the company.
• Establishes and maintains purchasing authorization limits in accordance with corporate policies and internal controls.
• Leads sourcing RFP and RFQ processes; sources, negotiates, and manages vendor-supplied materials, contracts, and services to support manufacturing operations.
• Examines and awards bids. Negotiates blanket purchases when appropriate and monitors cost.
• Reviews and approves purchase requisitions, vendor quotes, and bids within established authorization limits.
• Establishes supply programs (VMI, Consignment, JIT, Safety Stocks, Kanban, etc.) and provides demand forecast and PO coverage to all suppliers to prevent any supply constraints and disruptions.
• Uses lean methodologies for materials management, planning, procurement, receiving, warehousing, inventory control etc. (Pull Systems, Value Stream Transformations, PFEP (Plan for every part), Kanban replenishment,…