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About the job Supply Chain Manager

Join the market leader in construction tools! Our state-of-the-art facilities, combined with a dynamic and supportive company culture, set the stage for success. Here, great ideas are embraced, excellence is rewarded, and decisions are made swiftly. With the resources in place to tackle complex problems, working at our highly automated manufacturing and distribution facilities is both challenging and exciting.

If you're passionate about crafting superior tools, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and enjoy challenging the status quo, this could be the perfect opportunity for you!

This role is responsible for leading the Procurement, Replenishment, and Logistics arms of our Supply Chain team. Reporting directly to our Director of Supply Chain, this is a full-time, on-site position at our facility. Remote work is not available for this role.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Lead strategic planning to optimize supply and transportation logistics, ensuring products are always where they need to be.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams across Engineering, Operations, Sales, Sourcing, Product Development, and Maintenance.

- Utilize your critical thinking skills to drive operational excellence while leveraging our robust procurement system.

- Solve complex supply chain challenges with innovative solutions.

**We Are Looking For Someone Who:**

- Is a forward-thinker and can quickly grasp problems, creating effective solutions.

- Can influence and motivate others through strong storytelling, even when faced with complex decisions and process improvements.

- Builds partnerships and trust quickly, both internally and externally, and takes ownership of business impacts.

- Is proficient with data analytics, able to translate large volumes of information into actionable insights using tools like Excel (experience with Alteryx, Tableau, Power BI, and Looker is a plus).

- Is self-motivated, detail-oriented, and thrives in a fast-paced environment.

- Values teamwork and contributes to the collective success of the team.

**What You'll Achieve:**

- Analyze business and inventory data to understand performance drivers, predict outcomes, and generate insights.

- Use data-driven insights to shape inventory strategies and improve business decisions.

- Become a strategic partner by collaborating across internal teams, assessing business performance, identifying opportunities for improvement, and devising solutions.

- Ensure the accuracy of demand forecasting and identify key monthly opportunities.

- Maintain KPI reporting and accuracy of item-level data.

- Establish and maintain scorecards for annual goals, focusing on critical KPIs such as on-time/in-full delivery and inventory availability.

- Anticipate and resolve vendor or supply chain issues before they escalate.

**Essential Functions:**

- Purchase raw materials and finished goods based on production schedules, inventory levels, and cost.

- Negotiate contracts with carriers and logistics providers.

- Collaborate with internal teams to expedite deliveries and resolve any production or quality issues.

- Manage contracts with vendors for small package, LTL, truckload, and container shipping.

- Oversee the documentation and record-keeping processes to ensure compliance with company standards.

**Qualifications:**

- Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, or a related field with 4+ years of relevant experience, OR 6+ years of experience in business management, merchandising, or a similar field.

- Previous experience leading supply chain teams is highly preferred.

- Proficiency in MRP operating principles is required.

- Strong negotiation and communication skills, with experience working with suppliers, vendors, and logistics partners.

- Familiarity with import/export processes and associated documentation is strongly preferred.

- Strong organizational and project management skills, with a proven ability to manage large data sets and make informed decisions.

We offer a competitive total rewards package, including a matching 401k retirement plan, health plans with employer HSA contributions, immediate vacation eligibility, and much more!

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Work for the market leader of construction tools at MARSHALLTOWN. Our facilities are top-notch and company culture is healthy. Decisions are made quickly, good ideas are embraced, excellence and effort are rewarded, and we have the resources to do what we need to do. Solving the problems of a large and highly automated manufacturing and distribution company are interesting and exciting.

If you want to be a part of a team that strives to manufacture superior quality tools, works hard, is nimble, and challenges status quo, then this might be the right opportunity for you!

Our Fayetteville, AR location is seeking a Supply Chain Manager to lead the Procurement/Replenishment & Logistics arms of our Supply Chain team. This position is accountable to our Director of Supply Chain and is based out of our Fayetteville, AR facility. This is not a remote position.

Position Summary

• Strategic planning, assessing future supply and transportation logistics, and ensuring the right amount of product is available at the right place and the right time.
• Operate daily at the intersection of operations and leadership.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with internal partners like Engineering, Operations, Sales, Sourcing, Product Development, and Maintenance.
• Leverage the scale of our procurement system.
• Use your critical thinking and problem-solving abilities to drive operational excellence.
  
  

• Forward-thinker able to quickly develop a holistic understanding of problems to develop innovative solutions
• Influential evaluating complex decisions and process improvement isnt easy, but you educate and motivate others to gain alignment through effective storytelling
• Quickly build partnerships & trustcreating sustainable business impact through both internal and external collaborative partnerships and relationships, as well as end-to-end ownership
• Know big data how to translate complex information into user-friendly insights, and tactics
• Analytical skills proficient with data analytics and visualization tools, such as: Excel (Alteryx, Tableau, Power BI, and Looker, a plus)
• Self-motivatedorganized, detailed oriented to get stuff done in a fast-paced environment
• Teamworkbelieve in the collective success of the team and are quick to jump in, help, and support your fellow team members.
  
  

• Performing business or inventory analysis to understand drivers of performance, predict outcomes, generate insights.
• Providing data-driven insights to influence the deployment of inventory, business strategies, and impact business decisions.
• Becoming an invaluable strategic partner by working across various internal teams, discuss business performance, identify opportunities improvement, and collaborate on solutions.
• Ensure forecasting capabilities for the business are delivering expected accuracy results and key opportunities identified monthly.
• Maintain KPI reporting and ensure accuracy of item-level data.
• Establish scorecards that represent mutually defined annual goals and achieve the critical on-time/in-full, on-shelf availability, cash/inventory, as well as other key metrics.
• Anticipate and resolve issues with vendor and/or supply chain.
• Communicating effectively to achieve leadership support and influence cross-functional stakeholders.
• Successfully navigating in ambiguous environments, with multiple cross-functional stakeholders and competing KPIs in pursuit of improved business outcomes.
• Partnering with supply chain teams on future development of new tools and processes to further enhance operational efficiencies and deliver on time and in full for the customer.
• Promoting and supporting company mission, values, & standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance.
  
  

• Purchases raw materials and finished goods items as necessary based upon production schedules, current inventory levels, and policy as well as price and potential availability through our procurement systems.
• Negotiates and manages contracts with carriers and 3rd party logistic providers
• Collaborates cross-functionally with internal partners
• Expedites delivery and follows up on purchase orders as necessary
• Submits quotes for raw materials and purchased items as requested
• Investigates and resolves vendor-related production and quality problems
• Owns direct business relationship with small package, LTL, full truckload, and container shipping vendors and works with carriers to address issues and overcome obstacles
• Manages team that documents and drives process adherence and required record keeping consistent with Marshalltown documentation standards
• Resists all price increases, notifies management of impending changes and accepts only those that can be justified
• Maintains working relationship with existing and prospective vendors by interviewing their representatives and through on-going contact on the telephone or through the mail
• Other duties and project work as assigned; essential functions may be supplemented due to the absence of others or changes in business conditions
  
  

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, or related field and 4+ years' experience in business management, merchandising, or related area OR
• 6+ years' experience in business management, merchandising, or related area.
• Previous experience leading supply chain teams, strongly preferred.
• Proficient understanding of MRP Materials Resource Planning operating principles, required
• Strong communication skills to effectively negotiate and communicate with suppliers, vendors, and logistics partners
• Familiarity with the import or export process of containers, LCL, or bulk material, as well as documentation requirements associated with import and export of goods. Direct experience, strongly preferred.
• Effective organizational & project management skills through proven experience
• Ability to manage, analyze, and make decisions using large volumes of data
• Excellent PC skills utilizing Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook
• Team orientation with ability to be self-directed
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Management and Manufacturing
• Industries Construction Hardware Manufacturing

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What you'll do

Make Data Driven Product Decisions: Requires knowledge of product and feature analytics, data analysis tools and techniques, research for analysis activities, documentation procedures (for example, data logs), and modern industry practices and emerging trends.

- Supports data analytics for a product/feature.

- Supports data collection and evaluation within assigned areas (for example, acquisition cost, conversion rate, adoption, active users, feature usage, user churn, net promoter score, satisfaction, lifetime value).

Drive Customer/Client Needs: Requires knowledge of customer and business problems, design thinking, dependencies and impacts on product processes/ways of working, journey mapping, process optimization, and communication and influencing techniques.

-Researches and verifies customer needs and expectations.

-Delivers customer value within the parameters of profitability and other targets.

-Builds and maintains consistent customer connections and solicits customer feedback.

-Creates customer journeys and identifies customer touchpoints.

-Addresses gaps/risks in product experiences.

-Simplifies and improves processes to drive customer satisfaction (6).

Maintain Product Roadmap and Development: Requires knowledge of product roadmap development techniques, roadmap presentation, roadmap features and items, project management techniques, modern business practice (for example, Agile methodologies, Scrum), Minimum Viable Product (MVP) creation, product development lifecycles, and product development concepts (for example, "Crossing the Chasm").

-Builds and owns a simple product roadmap with proper phasing.

-Communicates with cross-functional partners and stakeholders.

-Explores alternative avenues to identify resources while navigating through organizational constraints and dependencies.

-Builds stakeholder alignment.

-Manages backlog/priority tradeoff decisions and communications.

-Builds complex 0 > 1 products.

Create Product Vision and Strategy: Requires knowledge of problem formulation and solutioning, hypothesis framing, business strategies, business management practices across multiple domains, customer segments and needs, domain-specific knowledge, "Go to Market" strategies, industry, environmental, and economic factors and competitors, product discovery process, product vision, product strategy and challenges, rapid prototyping and Lean experimentation methodologies, and concepts of "First Principle," "Whole Product," and "Crossing the Chasm".

-Owns a simple customer problem and/or product requirements/needs.

-Assists in building new ideas/products.

-Explores new focus areas/unchartered areas for value creation leveraging first principles and develops a long-term vision.

-Articulates problem statements and hypotheses.

-Guides team members towards prototypes.

-Effectively communicates product strategy and vision and the unit economics of a product.

-Understands the need for "Go-to-Market" strategies and levers for user adoption.

Influence and Build Stakeholder Consensus: Requires knowledge of verbal/non-verbal behaviors, application and allocation of business communication styles/techniques in ambiguous and challenging situations, situational awareness, elements of Emotional Intelligence and Influencing Styles, communication channels/mediums, interpersonal skills, and universal relationship building.

-Communicates in one-to-one/stakeholder meetings involving one-two teams.

-Proactively builds professional network.

-Articulates results/recommendations.

-Actively listens to others and acknowledges different technical perspectives and connects to the product/technology in development (6).

Be Technically Oriented: Requires knowledge of competitive technology landscapes, existing portfolio of enterprise systems, technologies, services, and architecture, common PaaS and IaaS technologies and environments, software quality assurance methodologies, tools, processes, and checkpoints, emerging technology and industry trends, product and technology innovation.

-Demonstrates an understanding of InfoSec policies and process.

-Owns business and user acceptance testing for simple products/features.

-Independently represents technology requirements and drives technology design outcomes.

-Demonstrates an understanding of product architecture, services involved, and the database and cloud technologies used.

-Leverages knowledge of competitor products/services for assigned products.

-Drives informed discussions with engineering teams and stakeholders to assess feasibility and risks and prioritize efforts, features, and capabilities

Minimum Qualifications:

Option 1: Bachelors degree in computer science, engineering, or related area and 9 years experience in product management.

Option 2: 11 years experience in product management or related area.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

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