Senior Manager, Supply Chain Business Operations & Analytics

almost 3 years ago
Full time role
Emeryville, CA, US... more
Emeryville, CA, US... more

Company

Sila Nanotechnologies is an electronics company that offers new battery materials chemistry. It works directly with leading consumer electronics and ...

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Job Description

WHO YOU ARE

As a senior manager in Sila’s supply chain team, you will develop and execute a strategy for building operational excellence across our supply chain ecosystem.  In this role, you will design and implement results-oriented and data-informed process improvements that provide sustainable competitive advantage for Sila.  Areas of focus include procurement, compliance, and risk management processes, systems, and technology, and enhancements to data visibility and analytics.  You are detail oriented, technically astute, and committed to ethics and integrity, and you possess the intrinsic motivation to build a growing and critical operational function to deliver competitive advantage to Sila.  You’ll be working in a dynamic and fast-paced environment across multiple organizations in the company where business and technical acumen along with high levels of engagement and collaboration with other team members are prerequisites for success.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES 

  • Define a long-term vision and roadmap for supply chain operational excellence that meets Sila’s business objectives.
  • Drive continuous improvement programs for our internal processes that are based on supply chain best practices and enable new ways for optimizing all stages of the value chain.  
  • Further develop procurement and outsource control operating policies and procedures and source and implement tools and systems to enable their successful adoption.  
  • Drive the maturation of supply chain business intelligence, analytics, and data visualization capabilities.   
  • Develop and manage a suite of metrics that combine lagging and leading indicators across the entire supply chain to realize efficiency, quality, cost and safety gains and simultaneously deliver increased customer value.  
  • Collaborate with IT / Data Systems to obtain high-quality data and ensure required datasets are available for discovery and model building.
  • Develop a culture of teamwork, collaboration, confidence and trust across all corporate functions that intersect with the supply chain organization to meet shared objectives.
  • Embrace and support Sila’s vision, mission and core values.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL REQUIREMENTS

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering or science, advanced materials science or systems engineering degree a plus.
  • 10+ years related work experience.
  • Additional supply chain and process improvement education, training, or certification through professional organizations (APICS, CSCMP, Six Sigma) a plus.
  • Expertise in supply chain processes and best practices and proven experience in applying them to optimizing internal processes from small tweaks to complete reengineering.  Previous hands-on experience with value-stream mapping a plus.
  • Deep understanding in how technology is used within supply chains from fundamentals to packaged software systems to enable procurement transformation, supplier risk management, analytics strategy development, business process transformation, and working capital improvement.
  • Thorough understanding of ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle and Sage.  
  • Proven ability to develop analytical solutions for data discovery and exploration; experience with Tableau and SQL a must. 
  • Strong influencing skills coupled with the ability to implement and drive new process and continuous improvement actions in a matrix environment.  Ability to build lasting relationships across multiple layers in the organization.
  • Distinctive analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to apply business and marketplace knowledge and insight to guide actions / decisions within the supply chain and at all levels of the organization.  
  • Excellent communication and organizational skills with the ability to synthesize and report out both verbally and in writing

 

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