SR. SUPPLY CHAIN DIRECTOR

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SR. SUPPLY CHAIN DIRECTOR

2A - Directors Office Executive/Senior Lvl Mount Pleasant, TX, US

POSITION SUMMARY

The Senior Director, Supply Chain is a senior operational leadership role responsible for translating Diamond C's business and production requirements into an executable, reliable, and cost-effective supply plan.

Reporting directly to the Vice President of Supply Chain, this position provides day-to-day leadership and functional oversight of SIOP, Production Planning, Inventory Control, Strategic Sourcing, and Procurement across Diamond C's manufacturing operations.

The Senior Director is responsible for ensuring that the right material is available, in the right quantity, at the right location, and at the right time to support production while balancing inventory investment, supplier performance, working capital, cost, and operational risk.

This is not primarily an administrative supply chain role. The Senior Director is expected to be highly engaged with manufacturing operations, understand the flow of material from supplier through receiving, inventory, fabrication, welding, powder coat, final assembly, and finished production, and lead the organization in preventing supply disruptions before they affect the production line.

The position serves as the principal operational leader for the Supply Chain organization and as a key cross‑functional partner to Operations, Engineering, Quality, Finance, Sales, IT, and NPI.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Supply Chain Leadership and Execution

Provide direct leadership and accountability for SIOP, Planning, Inventory Control, Sourcing, and Procurement.

Translate the Vice President of Supply Chain's strategy and objectives into executable departmental priorities, metrics, and action plans.

Establish clear accountability throughout the Supply Chain organization for material availability, supplier performance, inventory accuracy, schedule attainment, and disruption prevention.

Maintain a strong floor‑level understanding of material constraints and production risks across Diamond C manufacturing operations.

Ensure Supply Chain leaders and team members are proactively identifying risks rather than reacting after production has been affected.

Establish effective daily, weekly, and monthly operating rhythms across Supply Chain.

Develop managers and future leaders capable of supporting continued growth and increased operational complexity.

Establish standard work, documented processes, escalation protocols, and measurable expectations throughout the organization.

Promote fact‑based problem solving, root‑cause analysis, continuous improvement, and disciplined execution.

2. SIOP

Own the operational execution and continuous improvement of Diamond C's Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning process.

Responsibilities include:

Convert sales forecasts, order demand, backlog, production capacity, inventory positions, supplier constraints, and business objectives into an executable supply plan.

Ensure alignment between Sales demand, Operations capacity, Supply Chain capability, and inventory requirements.

Establish appropriate planning horizons for short-, medium-, and long‑range material requirements.

Identify demand/capacity/material imbalances before they become production constraints.

Lead supply reviews supporting the broader SIOP process.

Establish clear assumptions regarding demand, lead times, supplier capacity, inventory, safety stock, and production requirements.

Drive resolution of gaps between forecasted demand and available supply.

Improve forecast consumption and planning discipline.

Ensure significant supply constraints have documented mitigation plans, owners, and recovery dates.

Develop scenario planning for significant demand changes, supplier disruptions, capacity constraints, product transitions, and business growth.

3. Production Planning

Provide leadership for material and production planning supporting Diamond C manufacturing operations.

Responsibilities include:

Ensure production schedules are supported by confirmed material availability.

Establish effective planning horizons and frozen scheduling windows appropriate to Diamond C's manufacturing environment.

Maintain alignment between production requirements, purchase orders, supplier schedules, inventory, and manufacturing capacity.

Ensure planners actively manage material exceptions, shortages, past‑due requirements, schedule changes, and production risks.

Establish disciplined shortage‑management and escalation processes.

Develop planning practices that reduce unnecessary schedule changes and production instability.

Ensure planners maintain close working relationships with Operations and understand actual production conditions.

Improve MRP discipline, planning parameters, lead times, lot sizes, order policies, and master data.

Monitor material readiness for upcoming production schedules.

Ensure shortages are identified early enough to allow Procurement, Sourcing, Inventory Control, or Operations to take corrective action.

Measure planning effectiveness through schedule attainment, shortage frequency, expedites, material‑related downtime, and other appropriate KPIs.

4. Inventory Control

Own inventory accuracy, control, availability, and working‑capital performance throughout Diamond C manufacturing operations.

Responsibilities include:

Establish and maintain an effective cycle‑counting program.

Drive sustained inventory accuracy by SKU and storage location.

Ensure inventory transactions accurately reflect physical material movement.

Establish controls for receiving, transfers, consumption, returns, adjustments, scrap, quarantine, and material disposition.

Identify and eliminate root causes of inventory discrepancies.

Establish appropriate controls for raw material, WIP, purchased components, fabricated components, and other production inventory.

Develop and maintain appropriate safety‑stock methodologies based on demand variability, lead time, criticality, supplier risk, and operational exposure.

Manage excess, obsolete, slow‑moving, and inactive inventory.

Improve inventory turns while protecting manufacturing continuity.

Ensure FIFO and other required inventory‑control practices are consistently followed.

Partner with Operations to improve point‑of‑use inventory and material presentation.

Support physical inventories and financial inventory‑control requirements.

5. Strategic Sourcing

Lead strategic sourcing activities supporting production continuity, cost competitiveness, supplier diversification, and long‑term business growth.

Responsibilities include:

Develop sourcing strategies for critical utility‑trailer commodities and components.

Establish sourcing priorities based on spend, production criticality, supplier risk, lead time, quality, capacity, geographic concentration, and business impact.

Identify and reduce single‑source exposure.

Develop qualified secondary and, where appropriate, tertiary sources for critical materials.

Lead RFQ/RFP activities and competitive sourcing events.

Negotiate commercial agreements, pricing, lead times, capacity commitments, payment terms, warranty provisions, and other commercial requirements.

Establish supplier onboarding and qualification requirements.

Conduct supplier capability and risk assessments.

Partner with Quality and Engineering on supplier qualification, product changes, and corrective actions.

Maintain awareness of commodity markets and external risks affecting steel, fabricated components, tires/wheels, axles, hydraulic systems, electrical components, lumber/decking, coatings, hardware, and other trailer‑manufacturing inputs.

Monitor tariffs, trade actions, logistics disruptions, commodity movements, and other external factors that may affect Diamond C's material cost or availability.

Drive measurable cost optimization without sacrificing quality, delivery reliability, or operational resilience.

Establish effective phase‑in/phase‑out controls when changing suppliers or components.

6. Procurement

Ensure Procurement executes material requirements accurately, efficiently, and with appropriate supplier accountability.

Responsibilities include:

Establish clear buyer ownership and accountability by commodity, supplier, and/or manufacturing location.

Ensure purchase orders accurately reflect required quantities, dates, pricing, terms, and delivery locations.

Maintain disciplined management of open purchase orders.

Ensure suppliers provide reliable confirmations and recovery plans for past‑due material.

Develop escalation protocols for supplier delivery failures.

Reduce unnecessary premium freight and expedite activity.

Ensure supplier commitments are visible to Planning and Operations.

Improve Purchase Order and ERP transactional accuracy.

Ensure buyers understand production priorities and the operational consequences of supplier failures.

Develop procurement processes capable of supporting Diamond C's growth without unnecessary increases in inventory or transactional complexity.

7. Supplier Performance and Development

Establish supplier scorecards covering delivery, quality, cost, responsiveness, capacity, and risk.

Establish and enforce supplier OTD expectations.

Conduct regular supplier business reviews.

Require formal corrective actions for significant or recurring supplier failures.

Escalate chronic supplier performance issues and develop replacement‑source strategies where appropriate.

Develop strategic relationships with key suppliers.

Conduct supplier site visits and capability reviews for critical suppliers.

Monitor supplier financial, operational, geographic, capacity, and continuity risks.

Ensure significant supplier risks have documented mitigation plans.

Partner with suppliers on productivity, cost reduction, lead‑time reduction, quality improvement, and capacity planning.

8. Production Disruption Prevention

A central expectation of this position is preventing Supply Chain issues from reaching Diamond C production operations.

The Senior Director will:

Establish proactive material‑risk identification processes.

Maintain visibility of critical shortages and potential production constraints.

Quantify significant supply risks in terms of affected units, production hours, revenue, and customer impact when appropriate.

Ensure every significant shortage has an owner, mitigation plan, expected recovery date, and escalation path.

Lead rapid cross‑functional response to material disruptions.

Conduct root‑cause analysis following significant Supply Chain disruptions.

Implement permanent corrective actions rather than relying repeatedly on expedites.

Track Supply Chain‑attributable production disruptions and drive measurable year‑over‑year reduction.

9. New Product Introduction and Engineering Change Support

Ensure Supply Chain readiness for new trailer models, options, components, and engineering changes.

Support NPI sourcing and supplier‑selection activities.

Confirm supplier capacity, tooling, lead times, pricing, and production readiness prior to launch.

Ensure new materials are correctly established within ERP/MRP systems.

Coordinate phase‑in/phase‑out planning for component and supplier changes.

Minimize obsolete inventory resulting from engineering changes.

Ensure Procurement and Planning understand effective dates and implementation requirements.

Participate in applicable Go/No‑Go and production‑readiness reviews.

10. ERP/MRP and Master Data Discipline

Serve as a senior Supply Chain business leader for ERP/MRP processes.

Ensure Supply Chain master data supports accurate planning and procurement.

Drive discipline around lead times, order policies, safety stock, supplier information, purchasing parameters, inventory locations, and planning data.

Partner with IT and other functions to improve ERP functionality and adoption.

Ensure Supply Chain personnel understand and consistently execute required ERP transactions.

Identify systemic issues causing inaccurate planning signals, inventory balances, or purchasing requirements.

Support the continued development and stabilization of Diamond C's ERP/MRP capabilities.

11. Financial and Working‑Capital Management

Manage Supply Chain decisions with an understanding of their impact on EBITDA, working capital, cash flow, production output, and revenue.

Develop annual cost‑reduction and cost‑avoidance initiatives.

Improve inventory turns while maintaining appropriate production protection.

Reduce excess and obsolete inventory.

Reduce premium freight and emergency procurement costs.

Evaluate total cost of ownership rather than purchase price alone.

Quantify the financial impact of significant supply disruptions and sourcing decisions.

Partner with Finance to validate savings and inventory performance.

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

The Senior Director will be accountable for developing and improving performance across measures including:

Supplier Quality Performance

Supply Chain‑Related Production Disruptions

Revenue Impact from Supply Chain Disruptions

Material Availability / Production Readiness

Inventory Accuracy

Cycle Count Performance

Inventory Turns

Excess and Obsolete Inventory

Purchase Price Variance / Cost Optimization

Premium Freight and Expedite Costs

Purchase Order Past‑Due Performance

Safety Stock Compliance

ERP/MRP Data Accuracy

Specific annual targets will be established through Diamond C's business‑planning process.

CROSS‑FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS

The Senior Director must build strong working relationships with:

Manufacturing Operations

Quality

Finance

New Product Introduction

Information Technology

Human Resources

Logistics

The role must balance functional Supply Chain objectives with the overall requirements of Diamond C manufacturing operations.

LEADERSHIP EXPECTATIONS

The successful Senior Director will:

Lead from the floor as well as from data.

Hold leaders accountable while actively developing their capabilities.

Communicate problems early and clearly.

Escalate risk based on facts rather than waiting for failure.

Develop solutions rather than simply identifying problems.

Make decisions using data and measurable business impact.

Challenge existing processes when they do not support operational requirements.

Build strong relationships with Operations without compromising Supply Chain accountability.

Develop a culture of urgency without creating a culture of constant firefighting.

Maintain high standards of integrity, professionalism, ownership, and follow‑through.

Build processes and leaders capable of supporting Diamond C's continued growth.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations, Business, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

Significant progressive leadership experience in Supply Chain, Procurement, Materials Management, or Operations within a manufacturing environment.

Demonstrated experience leading multiple Supply Chain disciplines.

Strong experience with production planning and MRP in a discrete manufacturing environment.

Demonstrated experience managing supplier performance and material availability.

Strong knowledge of inventory management and inventory‑control practices.

Demonstrated strategic sourcing and supplier‑negotiation experience.

Strong understanding of manufacturing BOMs and their relationship to planning, purchasing, and inventory.

Experience managing complex supplier and material constraints.

Strong analytical and financial skills.

Experience establishing and managing operational KPIs.

Strong ERP/MRP experience.

Demonstrated ability to lead managers and develop high‑performing teams.

Ability to communicate effectively with executive leadership, manufacturing personnel, suppliers, and cross‑functional teams.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

10+ years of progressive Supply Chain/manufacturing experience.

5+ years leading managers and/or multiple Supply Chain functions.

Experience in trailer, automotive, commercial vehicle, heavy equipment, fabricated‑metal, or similar discrete manufacturing.

Experience supporting multi‑site manufacturing.

Experience implementing or significantly improving SIOP/S&OP processes.

Experience with ERP implementation or major ERP transformation.

Experience managing steel and other commodity‑intensive categories.

Experience with Lean Manufacturing and structured problem‑solving methodologies.

APICS/ASCM CPIM, CSCP, CPSM, Lean/Six Sigma, or comparable professional certification.

Experience operating within a rapidly growing manufacturing organization.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

The successful candidate should demonstrate advanced capability in:

SIOP/S&OP

MRP and production planning

Inventory optimization

Strategic sourcing

Procurement

Commodity management

Supply risk management

Manufacturing operations

BOM and master‑data management

ERP systems

Negotiation

Cost analysis

Working‑capital management

Root‑cause analysis

Change management

Executive communication

Cross‑functional problem solving

SUCCESS PROFILE

Success in this position means Diamond C's manufacturing organization can depend upon Supply Chain to consistently anticipate requirements, identify risk early, secure material, maintain accurate inventory, develop reliable suppliers, and protect production.

The Senior Director should progressively move the organization from reactive expediting and disruption management toward proactive planning, supplier development, risk prevention, and disciplined execution.

The ultimate measure of the role is not simply whether material was purchased - it is whether Diamond C manufacturing operations have the material and Supply Chain capability required to build trailers safely, efficiently, predictably, and profitably.