Supply Chain Senior Manager

$45.00-$55.70 per hour

Thousand Oaks, CA

Contract

Duration: 12 months contract

Schedule:
Standard Business Hours

• Supplier Collaboration Specialist is responsible for enabling and continuously improving supplier collaboration processes, systems, and capabilities across the supply chain. This role serves as a key liaison between suppliers, manufacturing sites, Procurement, Supply Chain, Logistics, Finance, Information Technology (IT), and third-party logistics (3PL) providers to ensure efficient, accurate, and reliable exchange of supply and transactional information.

• The Specialist supports the design, testing, implementation, and expansion of supplier collaboration capabilities, including Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), delivery schedules, supplier commitments, Advanced Ship Notices (ASN), barcode labeling, transportation notifications, invoicing, and automated receiving processes.

• The role also provides supplier and internal-user support, drives issue resolution, develops training and standard operating procedures, monitors process performance through Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and leads small to medium-sized improvement initiatives.

  Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary point of contact for suppliers and manufacturing sites regarding supplier collaboration processes, systems, and transactions.

• Support supplier onboarding and enablement for electronic and automated collaboration capabilities, including EDI, delivery schedules, supplier commitments, pickup notifications, Advanced Ship Notices (ASN), barcode labels, and electronic invoicing.

• Partner with suppliers to identify and resolve process, transaction, system, and data-quality issues.

• Promote supplier adoption and compliance with established collaboration standards and business requirements.

• Maintain regular communication with suppliers to address operational concerns and improve end-to-end transactional performance.

• Assist in defining and documenting business requirements for new supplier collaboration processes, system enhancements, and digital capabilities.

• Participate in requirements gathering, system testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), implementation, deployment, and post-implementation support.

• Troubleshoot reported issues involving supplier schedules, demand, commitments, shipment information, receiving, invoicing, payments, and other transactions throughout the procure-to-pay and supply chain process.

• Coordinate issue resolution across business and technical teams, identifying root causes and supporting sustainable corrective actions.