Supply Chain Manager - Phoenix Products

Develop and execute comprehensive supply chain strategies that align with business objectives, drive operational excellence, and support organizational growth.

Lead all procurement, sourcing, and inventory management activities to ensure uninterrupted production, optimal inventory levels, and cost-effective material availability.

Establish, negotiate, and manage strategic supplier partnerships, contracts, and long-term agreements to secure quality materials, competitive pricing, and reliable supply.

Direct supplier performance management processes, utilizing data-driven metrics to evaluate quality, delivery, responsiveness, compliance, and overall supplier effectiveness.

Oversee demand forecasting, inventory planning, replenishment strategies, and inventory control programs to maximize inventory accuracy and improve inventory turns.

Drive continuous improvement initiatives across the supply chain, identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency, streamline processes, reduce costs, and eliminate waste.

Develop and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) for procurement, supplier performance, inventory management, and on-time delivery, implementing corrective actions as needed to achieve operational targets.

Lead supplier qualification, development, and risk mitigation programs while ensuring the timely procurement of critical manufacturing materials, components, and fabrication consumables required to meet production schedules.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Safety: fully supports, encourages and follows safe work behavior, and considers safety of paramount importance in the workplace.

Job Specific Skills: Demonstrates the required depth and mastery of knowledge and skill associated with the job as identified in the Learning Management System (LMS) and other applicable sources. Demonstrates the effective application of the job specific knowledge, skills and ability required to resolve job related challenges in the workplace. Refer to job specific training requirements for the job identified in the LMS.

Fostering Teamwork: Listens and responds constructively to other team members' ideas. Offers support for others' ideas and proposals. Is open with other team members about his/her concerns. Works for solutions that all team members can support.

Managing Change: Demonstrates support for innovation and for organizational changes needed to improve the organization's effectiveness. Helps individuals and groups manage the anxiety associated with significant change. Establishes processes to manage the orderly implementation of change.

Communication: Uses active listening skills, conveying information with the appropriate medium that is clear and easily understood. Uses feedback to verify effective and accurate communication has occurred. Ensures that others having a need to know are kept informed about developments, progress, problems and plans through consistent, effective communication. Avoids surprises.

Planning and Organizing: Creates realistic schedules and follows them. Evaluates progress against schedule and goal. Identifies the sequence of tasks and the resources needed to achieve a goal, and prioritizes key action steps. Anticipates the impacts / risks of actions. Seeks and uses others' input about critical actions, timelines, sequencing, scope, methodology, expected outcomes, and priorities. Adjusts plans based on input.

Takes Initiative: Takes appropriate action to resolve issues without requiring direction. Seeks out others involved in a situation to learn their perspectives. Makes difficult decisions in a timely manner. Is willing to make decisions in difficult or ambiguous situations, when time is critical. Assertive in a group when it is necessary to facilitate change, overcome an impasse, face issues, or ensure that decisions are made.

Adaptability: Adapts to changing business needs, conditions, and work responsibilities. Adapts approach, goals, and methods to achieve solutions and results in dynamic situations. Recovers quickly from setbacks, and finds alternative ways to reach goals or targets. Open to different and new ways of doing things; willing to modify one's preferred way of doing things.

Coaching and Mentoring: Inspires and empowers team members to excel, providing timely productive feedback and guidance to stretch beyond their comfort levels to achieve specific, measurable and challenging goals. Builds productive relationships with team members, conveying confidence and expressing genuine appreciation for team member contributions. Explains to team members the importance of the work they do.

Stress Management: Keeps functioning effectively when under pressure and maintains self-control in the face of hostility or provocation. Remains calm under stress. Can effectively handle several problems or tasks at once. Controls response when criticized, or provoked.

In 1962, Ring Power Corporation became a full-line Caterpillar dealer in North Florida, and later expanded its authorized territory to include Central Florida.

Today, Ring Power Corporate headquarters in St. Augustine oversees the operations of 18 branch locations throughout the state of Florida, including large regional facilities in Tampa and Orlando and crane and forklift sales and service facilities in Pompano. Ring Power also has eight facilities outside of Florida - The Carolinas, Georgia & Texas - to serve the needs of other specialized industries and customers.

Ring Power Corporation has become one of the largest Caterpillar dealers in the Southeastern United States through dedication to the mission of customer service. In order to preserve the "Customers First" reputation that Ring Power was built on, we continually train our employees and work closely with our customers to assure complete satisfaction, especially after the sale.

Currently, more than 2,380 employees at 20+ locations throughout Florida and the United States work hard to provide the highest quality construction equipment, backed by responsive, professional service and support at every level.

Formal Education Bachelor’s degree or relevant experience

Experience 7+ years  

Able to easily and effectively comprehend written material and communicate orally and in writing with employees and customers.

Valid Drivers License and certified in Fork Lift Truck operation

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering or related field.

7-10+ years of supply chain, procurement, or operations experience in manufacturing.

3-5+ years of leadership experience managing buyers, planners, inventory control personnel, or logistics teams.

MBA or advanced degree preferred

Job requirements change requiring re-training to stay current every 1-2 years.

Problem Solving Job requires problem solving ability, established examples / guidance are not always available.

Creativity Job requires creativity as part of carrying out daily activities. New approaches are encouraged.

Autonomy Job is regularly monitored to determine outcomes. Assignments allow some discretion in decision making and setting priorities within well-established parameters.

Stress Load Regular exposure to these stresses (20-80% of the time).

Workload Fluctuation Job frequently involves changes in priorities, complexity and/or quantity of work.

Work Schedule Work is scheduled during regular business hours with frequent requirements to work nights, holidays and weekends.

A person's performance in this job has considerable immediate impact on expense, efficiencies or achievement of overall department objectives.

Job involves a first level leader, responsible for team members only - no subordinate Supervisors / Managers)

"NA": Not Applicable

"O": Occasionally - (up to 3 hours/day)

"F": Frequently - (3-6 hours/day)

"C": Constantly - (6-8 hours/day)

F: Climbing

O: Balancing

O: Stooping

F: Kneeling

F: Crouching

N/A: Crawling

F: Reaching

F: Standing

O: Sitting

F: Walking

O: Feeling

N/A: Fingering

F: Grasping

O: Repetitive Motion

F: Talking

C: Hearing

O: Pushing - Up to 25 lbs.

O: Pulling - Up to 25 lbs.

O: Lifting - Up to 25 lbs.

O: Pushing - 26-50 lbs

O: Pulling - 26-50 lbs.

O: Lifting - 26-50 lbs.

N/A: Pushing - Over 50 lbs.

N/A: Pulling - Over 50 lbs.

N/A: Lifting - Over 50 lbs.

"NA": Not Applicable

"O": Occasionally - (up to 3 hours/day)

"F": Frequently - (3-6 hours/day)

"C": Constantly - (6-8 hours/day)

O: Inside conditions: Protection from weather but not necessarily from temperature change. F: Outside environmental conditions: No effective protection from weather. O: Extreme cold: Temperatures below 32 degrees for periods of more than one hour. F: Extreme heat: Temperatures above 100 degrees for periods of more than one hour. O: Noise: sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout to be heard above the ambient noise level O: Vibration: Exposure to oscillating movements of the extremities of whole body. O: Hazards: Includes a variety of physical conditions (i.e. proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical current, working in high places, exposure to heat and/or chemicals. O: Atmospheric conditions: One or more of the following conditions that affect the respiratory system or the skin: Fumes, odors, dust, mists, gases or poor ventilation. N/A: Oils: There is air and/or skin exposure to oils and other cutting fluids. N/A: Air particulates / contaminants: the worker is required to wear respirator.

RING POWER CORPORATION, INC. IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER