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Essex Food Ingredients · 2 days ago

Vice President Supply Chain

Frazer, PA

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

10+ years exp

Essex Food Ingredients is focused on increasing Customer Success and building relationships while growing their business. The Vice President of Supply Chain is responsible for overseeing Operations, Customer Service, and Purchasing Departments to ensure high quality, efficiency, and customer satisfaction, while maintaining optimal inventory levels.

Food ProcessingGrocerySupply Chain Management

Hiring Manager

Chace Altman

Responsibilities

Strategically lead and develop an operational team to enhance performance by setting clear accountable performance measures

Selects, develops, retains, and directs qualified supervisor and professional staff

Responsible for planning, prioritizing, and setting department goals

Direct and implement scalable methods and procedures empowering staff to navigate customer issues

Continually seeks opportunities through internal and external resources to develop or enhance management skills, and drives continuous development of team members

Lead regularly scheduled meetings as a department

Be visible, involved, informed, engaged, creative, intuitive, challenging, and supportive of managers and team members

Hold team accountable by managing and executing standard processes and problem-solving techniques

Create and maintain high quality work environment so team members are motivated to perform at their highest level

Eliminate barriers between and within departments. Resolve employee issues with assistance from Human Resources, VP of Sales, Controller, and President

Certify all training programs are well documented for all employees to ensure all are qualified to carry out assigned tasks. All training will be documented, and original documentation supplied to HR Manager

Build and maintain a strong safety culture, achieving zero lost time incidents

Establish and monitor KPI’s to drive improved safety, perfect service, continuous improvement, and inventory management

Develop, recommend, and manage expansion projects and capital budgets

Fulfill the food safety duties and responsibilities as outlined in company’s SQF program

Ensure compliance and adhere to all company policies as well as federal, state, and local regulations

Act as the primary Supply Chain point of contact for Essex Food Ingredients and as a resource for sister companies

Develop and implement very high service standards, procedures, and policies in accordance with company goals, while maintaining efficient operation

Partner with Sales Executives to optimize existing client profitability through business planning and collaboration and deliver increased revenue streams

Identify and implement opportunities to improve customer experience by seeking new industry tools and technologies

Develop programs to continually improve quality of service through employee engagement and training

Facilitate problem solving by modeling continuous improvement methodologies to eliminate root causes and permanently reduce variance through cross functional coordination with other key department managers

Responds to high volume of internal and external emails through Microsoft Outlook

Responds to internal and external phone calls and requests

Makes copies, print documents, mail delivery, etc

Qualification

Supply Chain ManagementFood Safety KnowledgeLean MethodologiesData Visualization ToolsERP SystemsCRM SystemsAnalytical SkillsTeam BuildingLeadership SkillsCommunication Skills

Required

College degree with a concentration preferred in Industrial Management, Operations, Supply Chain, or Engineering, including 10+ years plant/general management experience in a distribution or manufacturing environment

Knowledge of food safety and food production, distribution, logistics, and inventory control, and the ability to apply such knowledge to practical situations

Experience utilizing lean, statistical, and data-visualization tools

Advanced knowledge of MS Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, etc.)

Advanced knowledge of ERP and CRM systems

Proven Management and/or relationship management experience on a strategic level

History of building high functioning teams

Tracking budget expenses

Utilize lean, statistical and data-visualization tools

Strong analytical and problem-solving techniques

Ability to communicate effectively to a variety of audiences and in a public forum among peers and team members

Strong communication skills, and able to lead and motivate leadership and team members daily in a face past environment, while driving consistent results

Strong leadership and management skills in accordance with Essex Core Values

Self-Driven, motivated individual with an active continuous improvement approach

Knowledge of SEI and Smartsheets