Senior Supply Chain Consultant

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Location: United States (willing to travel within US to Project Site)

Type: Contractor - Implementation Engineer job postings offer Consultant (1099) and Employee (W2) agreements; therefore, the salary range shown may vary per arrangement as well as candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Job Description:

Implementation Engineers is seeking contract consultants and full-time employees to support projects re-engineering supply chain functions. Must be an expert in multiple disciplines, including ERP, procurement, production planning, BOM and/or configuration management, shop floor scheduling, forecasting, inventory management and optimization, inventory reduction, warehousing and logistics, shipping and receiving.

Experience with SAP ERP and/or Oracle Supply Chain/Demand Planning and Master Data Management experience is strongly preferred. Previous Lean, inventory reduction and optimization, and planning preferred.

Ideal candidates are seasoned supply chain professionals who have successfully identified, led, and managed high-impact improvement projects both operationally and organizationally. Experience with strong written and verbal communication skills with C-level executives is a requirement.

The successful candidate will lead our Implementation Engineering teams to:

• Guide our clients through a structured process that deals with resources, decision-making, resistance identification and resolution, conflict management, skills enhancement, organizational development, metrics and performance results, coaching, mentoring, and behavioral change.
• Capture/Clarify/Align the strategic business objectives of our clients by creating a 3 to 5-year deployment plan that will quantify our clients’ current state and create a road map to address gaps where objectives are not being achieved.
• Re-engineer supply chain support processes as required to achieve business results.
• Sustain improvements through system implementation, including visual management, layered standard work, audits, and more.
• Develop an internal management culture to sustain improvement initiatives and work to interact and sell continued opportunities at all levels of the organization, especially with senior management and executives.

Additional Qualifications:

• BS degree in Industrial Engineering or similar technical discipline
• Six Sigma Black Belt and Lean certifications preferred
• Minimum 10+ years of supply chain operations, plus an additional 5 years in complex manufacturing, production or similar (e.g. fabrication + assembly)
• SAP ERP strongly preferred
• Prior consulting experience required (internal or external consulting)
• Experience with SQL, excellent data analysis and statistical skills preferred
• Strong business acumen, financial analysis, and client relationship skills
• Travel required (various clients' sites).