COMPANY DESCRIPTION
At AirLife, we are dedicated to improving the quality of every breath. Excellence with Every Breath is not just a tag line, but the way we work and take care of our customers. With a mindset to evolve, innovate, and grow, we are a premier manufacturer of the highest-quality and market-leading breathing consumables. This growth philosophy has positioned us to increase our global footprint and business reach, impacting even more people around the world. Our expanding family of the most trusted brands offers a product portfolio that spans the continuum of care from first responder to home care, with safety, patient comfort, and clinical performance in mind. Collective expertise allows us to provide quality products and experiences to our patients, customers, and our people. Our values of Customer first, Differentiate with our People, Bias for Action, Continuous Improvement and Accountability define who we are and how we work. Join us!
POSITION SUMMARY
Reporting to the Vice President of Supply Chain, the Senior Director of Supply Planning will lead the Supply Chain Intelligence and External Manufacturing groups that consist of Supply Chain Specialists, Analysts and Planners that will also serve as the Supply/Inventory Planning Center of Excellence (COE) for AirLife.
The incumbent is expected to provide vision and strategy to develop and drive supply chain initiatives that enable speed, flexibility, and agility to optimize service and inventory levels that ensure product availability to meet company and supply chain business plan objectives. Define the COE’s vision, mission, and strategic goals related to supply chain planning.
POSITION QUALIFICATIONS
The specific minimum competencies needed to perform the essential duties of the job include knowledge, skills, abilities, level of education, and experience necessary for successful performance. These competencies are generally demonstrated through specific service, education, or training.
Skills & Abilities:
- Possess a Growth Mindset - embraces challenges, seeks opportunities for growth, finds lessons and inspiration from others is required.
- Advanced working knowledge of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, Advanced Planning Systems (i.e. Blue Yonder, Kinaxis, OMP, Logility, etc) and proven ability to learn new systems quickly.
- Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
- The incumbent must also be a self-starter, be able to manage multiple priorities and possess the ability to drive root cause resolution.
- Continuous improvement background with successful implementations.
- Cross-functional knowledge throughout the supply chain (manufacturing, distribution, planning, sourcing and supply, transportation) including demonstrated knowledge of financial metrics and drivers
- Detail oriented and work effectively under pressure while meeting all applicable deadlines
- Must be able to work independently and with limited direct supervision
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment to support AirLife’s significant growth over the next 5 years
- Able to communicate to leadership effectively, simplifying complex supply chain topics is easily understood concepts in both visual and written form.
- Ability to develop/implement strategies, with experience to get involved and solve critical issues.
- Strong leadership skills and ability to build effective teams, towards common vision and direction.
- Excellent customer orientation and customer service delivery.
- Strong change management skills – embraces change; proven change agent with track record of change management successes; able to create and implement change; a continuous improvement mindset.
- Display thorough understanding of competitive benchmarks on supply chain operations. Ability to continuously challenge processes/procedures based on the latest industry thinking.
- Highest levels of personal and professional integrity.
- Demonstrated supply chain leadership, managerial skills and ability to influence without authority.
- Ability to interact and interface with executive levels of management.
- Multilingual (Spanish or Mandarin) preferred.
Level of Experience:
- 12+ years of people management experience required
- 7-9+ years’ experience in Supply, Inventory, and Corporate Planning required
- Medical device, pharmaceutical, or other regulated industry preferred
- APICS - CSCP, CPIM, SCOR preferred
- Lean/Six Sigma Green or Black Belt preferred
Level of Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain or business field
- MBA preferred
Travel
20% of the time at stable state (may require more during initial on-boarding).
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Liaison with executive leadership to align strategic roadmap with key stakeholders across functions, hierarchy and different parts of the business.
- Collaborate and support the development of AirLife’s SIOP roadmap.
- Develop predictive models for inventory optimization and supply risk assessment.
- Provide input and justify annual budget needs relating to supply chain planning center of excellence.
- Lead the implementation, enhancement, and maintenance of supply planning systems across the supply chain.
- Drive adoption and utilization of supply planning system functionalities to improve planning accuracy, efficiency, and reduce costs.
- Identify and implement optimization opportunities within day-to-day activities.
- Support decision making through timely and accurate reporting.
- Provide planning leadership and COE for training, documentation, support, and coordination for plant and staff roles which are involved with Supply/Inventory/Production Planning.
- Provide troubleshooting and problem-solving support for supply chain functional areas – i.e. customer service, planning, distribution, transportation, etc.
- Support the reporting needs by providing business leadership around analytics, design, communications and implementation. Ensure that reporting is accurate, timely, and provides user flexibility and visibility.
- Establish metrics, goals, checks and balances to measure and improve performance in the areas of supply planning and finished goods purchasing.
- Conduct career development and performance evaluation discussions with all team members. Discussions should result in specific plans to enhance current performance and provide an actionable roadmap for career and personal development. All team members should receive timely coaching and feedback on their performance as well as their career goals.
- Mentor and develop team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth.
- Provide leadership to ensure our organization attracts, develops, and retains the best people and fosters an environment that motivates a diverse team to fully use its capabilities in achieving desired business results.
- Communicate fully with superiors, subordinates, and other team members in a manner that is timely, complete, concise and responsive.
- Collaborate cross functionally to set standards in master data management (MDM) to ensure a common understanding, consistency, accuracy and control in the ongoing maintenance and application use of information.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to drive process improvements.
OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES
- Focus on achieving our Company mission.
- Demonstrate accuracy and thoroughness in daily work; look for ways to improve and promote quality & safety.
- Inspire the trust of others; treat people with respect and dignity and embrace the value of diversity.
- Use time efficiently; perform job accurately, thoroughly, and conserve Company resources to improve profits.
- Contribute to building and maintaining a positive team environment.
- Assure all policies and guidelines are implemented and followed.
QUALITY POLICY
At AirLife, Quality is our promise. It is our commitment to customer satisfaction and our dedication to product excellence in an evolving global healthcare market. This promise is kept through a continuously improving and effective Quality Management System and compliance to Regulatory Requirements.
DEIA STATEMENT
At AirLife, we are committed to building a diverse workforce and an inclusive workplace that reflects the communities and customers we serve. We believe our philosophy on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Advancement (DEIA) encourages excellence and equips us to serve an evolving global marketplace.
