Supply Chain Requirements Supervisor

With more than $1B in revenue, Tennant Company is a globally recognized leader in the cleaning equipment industry. For the past 150 years, we have been passionate about developing and manufacturing innovative and sustainable solutions for our customers. At Tennant Company, we are committed to stewardship and creating a cleaner, safer and healthier world. With manufacturing, operations and sales, service, and support functions across the globe, your journey at Tennant can take you places you never expected.

The Supply Chain Requirements Supervisor will manage the teams responsible for securing consistent material flow and producing the shop floor production schedules. This individual will be responsible for leading the collaborative efforts required to analyze potential supply chain risks, lead escalation efforts to mitigate those risks and drive stability into the shop floor production schedules. This role will be integral to develop strategic and long-term alignment between procurement and scheduling groups. The individual will be required to make decisions involving a high degree of complexity. This individual will work with the management team to develop supply chain disciplines and best practices including processes and procedures. This role requires an exceptional level of strategic thinking, change initiation and long-term corporate perspective.

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

•Aligning strategic planning between material control and production planning

•Represent the supply chain on cross functional business unit teams

•Propose, implement and support multi-site or high-level business tools and process enhancements (continuous process improvement)

•Analyze current processes and procedures to develop integration metrics consolidated team

•Analyze entire supply chain including logistics costs, materials and sources

•Recommend improvements based on supply chain analysis

•Lead integration of new high-level process changes

•Manage large projects related to changes in the supply chain

•Communicate project status to all levels of management

•Develops and delivers business plans or models for operations management and other supply chain Leaders

•Requires ability to define high risk or high-level problems, collect data, analyze data, offer solutions, andimplement to achieve the desired results

•Identify, develop and complete strategic level work plans for entire supply chain or high-risk projects

•Own, develop and implement business processes and related improvements

•Facilitate small-medium teams having explicit objectives and scope

•Ability to align project or process improvement goals with functional business objectives

•Provide back-up support for area coordinators, supervisors, and managers

•Ability to hold self and team accountable to targets driving business improvement and enterprise alignment

•Ability to provide candid feedback to best represent facilities interests through enterprise transition

•Other duties as assigned

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION:

•Requires a 4-year degree in Engineering, Business, Technology or equivalent experience

•Knowledge and experience and execution of lean tools including pull systems, PDCA thinking, kanbans, valuestream maps and PFEP

•Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship

REQUIRED INTERPERSONAL & BEHAVIORAL SKILLS:

•Builds strong working relationships with internal and/or external customers

•Identifies unexpressed customer needs and potential products/ services to meet those needs

•Analytics skills to define process gaps and develop sustainable resolution

•Ability to objectively mentor and coach team members to achieve

•Is quick to recognize situations where change is needed and takes steps to implement change

•Supports organizational change (e.g., asks questions, abandons past ways of doing things, etc.)

•Demonstrates effective presentation skills

•Independently composes written materials and proposals that convey information clearly and concisely

•Builds reciprocal working relationships with people from across organization or with customers

•Builds trust with others by acting in a way that is consistent with group/organizational expectations

•Takes responsibility for addressing critical roadblocks to achieving goals

•Demonstrates a sense of urgency about results

•Demonstrates a breadth of technical/functional knowledge outside of core specialty

•Creates technical best practices and teaches them internally

•Seeks out and works effectively with others who have different perspectives, backgrounds and/or styles

•Focuses efforts on tasks that yield high value

•Creates detailed project plans

•Learns how to use time management techniques to make efficient use of own time and show respect for others’time

•Gains a basic understanding of how to get things accomplished in the organization

•Actively participates in creation of own development plans

•Willingly accepts assignments that will expand his/her capabilities

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Equal Opportunity Employer

Tennant Company is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made on the basis of individual skill, ability, reliability, productivity, and other factors important to performance. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, military service, pregnancy, sexual orientation, genetic information (including family medical history), marital status, gender identity or expression, parental status, political or any other non-merit based factors protected by state or federal law or local ordinance.

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