Associate Director, Supply Chain

This position is a leadership role, being responsible for the direct management of people managers & individual contributors. As a key leader, you are jointly responsible for the site culture by leading by example and role modeling WuXi values and competencies.

Job Summary : Lead the material supply processes related to products manufactured at the Middletown site, from the procurement of the raw materials to the shipment of finished goods, as well as manufacturing master data management.

Responsible for the excellent relationship with commercial clients & ensuring a premium service via frequent communication and finding innovative, win-win solutions that meet client needs.

As a strategic role and key player for the organization, this position will interact with the following departments : Bulk Operations, Packaging Operations, QC, Validation, QA, IT and Finance.

This position oversees lead times and the requested delivery date and ensures on-time in full delivery.

Department management

• Guide, mentor & develop your teams to achieve an environment of personal accountability and trust.
• Do the right thing (be effective) : align with the site to set the strategy & priorities for your teams, ensuring we are working on the right things,
• Doing it right : (be efficient) : manage your teams by setting & tracking goals and tasks. Continuously improving processes to ensure we are doing it right.
• Ensure proactive priority and daily activity management for team & activities (planning communication, team organization, control, checking of the defined targets),
• Ensure department processes are sufficiently defined and documented. KPIs are implemented & monitored, actions are prioritized to ensure KPIs are on target.
• Communicate pro-actively, consistently, and collaboratively with peers, stakeholders, and partners.
• Use risk management & scientific assessments to ensure the depth and breadth of resource allocation (people, duration, documentation, etc.) is commensurate to the risk, impact, and the ROI.
• Keep up to date with current industry best practices that may give an operational or strategic advantage to WuXi.
• Accountable for the department budget (OPEX and CAPEX).

Purchasing, planning and shipping :

Manufacturing ERP / MES Master Data :

Commercial Client Relationship Management :

Compliance

Accountable for the departments related topics during audits & inspections (including regulatory, compliance, client and corporate)

EHS :

Identify 1 (or more) members of your department to be part of the site EHS team,

Experience / Education

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities :

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

This job description does not state or imply that the above are the only duties and responsibilities assigned to this position. Employees holding this position will be required to perform any other job-related duties as requested by Management.