Sr Director, Supply Chain & Advanced Operations

As a part of the global industrial organization Marmon Holdings—which is backed by Berkshire Hathaway—you’ll be doing things that matter, leading at every level, and winning a better way. We’re committed to making a positive impact on the world, providing you with diverse learning and working opportunities, and fostering a culture where everyone’s empowered to be their best.

Job Scope 

The Sr Director, Supply Chain & Advanced Operations is a transformative leader responsible for overseeing Demand & Supply Planning, Procurement, and advanced manufacturing initiatives. These initiatives include, Digital Surgical Planning and Manufacturing as well as remote Manufacturing.   This executive-level role is designed to unify advanced operations between the company's varied manufacturing facilities, drive operational excellence, and establish and scale new functions.  

The Senior Director creates and executes short and long-range material plan analysis to ensure efficient planning procurement and flow of materials throughout the supply chain for both new product launches and existing production.  This role extends beyond traditional supply chain oversight to include strategic leadership of end-to-end digital surgery manufacturing, including procurement, demand and supply planning, and inventory control.  

The Sr. Director collaborates with internal business partners to determine requirements and develop production build plans that meet objectives, optimize inventory investment, and facilitate efficient utilization of manufacturing resources.  This role develops, implements, and manages purchasing, procurement and planning processes and procedures, negotiation strategies, and negotiates contracts and long-term agreements in the best interest of the Company, including, negotiating contract pricing and review of specifications for materials purchased.  The Sr Director establishes goals for purchasing and planning and analyzes data to measure the effectiveness of tactics implementing mitigation plans as necessary to achieve department and Company goals. The Sr. Director plans, organizes, coordinates, inspects, supervises, evaluates, and provides oversight to a team of professional procurement, demand/supply planning, and digital surgery planning staff. 

Responsibilities 

• Develop and execute a cross-site operational strategy that harmonizes planning, procurement, capacity, and manufacturing processes. 
• Serve as a unifying strategic figure between facilities, bridging communication and execution gaps to drive cross-functional alignment. 
• Lead and scale a cross-functional digital surgery team that will coordinate across supply chain, production, and commercial planning. 
• Define operational protocols, quality controls, and technology integration for decentralized digitally enabled manufacturing. 
• Oversee supplier and material purchase negotiations, inventory strategies, and capacity modeling to support dynamic production needs—including distributed manufacturing. 
• Partner with engineering, quality, regulatory, and commercial teams to ensure successful platform design, compliance, and performance monitoring. 
• Participates in product life cycle planning with Sales, Finance, and Product Management to determine unit demand during new product introductions, product maturity and end-of-life periods and creates strategic, long-term plans.  
• Establish the processes and controls for both supply chain and non-supply chain related purchasing organization. 
• Establish and utilize best practice methods to use statistics to create material planning forecasts and adjust forecasts based on changes in demand and market trends. 
• Significant coordination and communication with internal Compliance Team to understand and proactively communicate to vendors, required quality compliance requirements for each supply chain related item purchased. 
• Gathers performance data and measures the output to determine achievement or variance with production schedules. 
• Reviews forecast metrics, analyze results to understand root cause when variability exceeds expectations and determines methods to improve forecast accuracy. 
• Creates, maintains, and ensures execution of planning responsibilities for production in support of Company objectives. (Finished goods forecasting and Materials Requirements Planning). 
• Develops, implements, updates and oversees procurement processes that ensure product, materials, and supplies are provided to the Company, which meet the quality, cost, delivery objectives and cost reduction strategies. 
• Plans, organizes, supervises, and evaluates the work of assigned staff responsible for procurement, purchasing and materials planning. 
• Identifies and leads continuous improvement efforts to streamline processes and procedures to remove nonvalue-added effort. 
• Develops and implements inventory control systems to maintain and track the order status and inventory levels that meet production requirements. 
• Provides leadership guidance and mentoring to direct reports. Develops and implements solutions to organizational challenges by leading and coaching others through changes. Fosters a culture of accountability and ownership within the team. 

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, operations, supply Chain, or related field; MBA or advanced technical degree strongly preferred. 
• 12+ years of progressive leadership in manufacturing operations, supply chain strategy, and/or production innovation. 
• Demonstrated Success in building and leading new operational functions 
• Certification in APICS, Lean Six Sigma, or similar methodologies preferred. 
• Strong understanding of ERP/MRP systems (SAP preferred), S&OP processes, and analytics tools. 
• Strong statistical and analytical skills and expertise 
• Strong negotiation skills with an ability to influence others 
• Personnel management and team building experience 
• ISO9001 / FDA GMP training preferred 
• Change Management experience / cellular concept 
• Superior verbal and written communication skills 

Following receipt of a conditional offer of employment, candidates will be required to complete additional job-related screening processes as permitted or required by applicable law.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to their membership in any protected class. If you require any reasonable accommodation to complete your application or any part of the recruiting process, please email your request to [email protected], and please be sure to include the title and the location of the position for which you are applying.