Supply Chain Manager

R10095156 Supply Chain Manager (Open)

Location:

Fairfield, NJ (Seppic) - Sales - North America zone

An Air Liquide Healthcare company, subsidiary of the Air Liquide group, Seppic has been designing, manufacturing, and marketing unique ingredients for over 75 years. These ingredients are used by consumers, patients, and professionals.

Worldwide, a vast team of talented women and men serve customers for health, well-being, and beauty of all. At Seppic, our vision is to help everyone enjoy a healthy life in a healthy environment.

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the unique perspectives of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders, and cultures across the world. We believe that a variety of backgrounds makes our team stronger and more innovative.At Air Liquide, we RESPECT, HONOR and VALUE diversity.Air Liquide is Hiring for a Supply Chain Manager in Fairfield, NJ!We are looking for you !

• Pay: $105,000.00 - $130,000.00 per year

• Travel: Between NJ office & Richmond, VA office 2-3 times per month

• Comprehensive Family Benefits: Air Liquide offers a full benefits package designed to support your whole life, including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance.

• Support for Parents: We offer up to 14-week paid child birth benefits to support growing families.

• Future Security: 401(k) Retirement Plan with company match, Tuition Assistance, Paid Holidays, Vacation, and Sick time.

• Early Access: Your benefits start day 1.

A subsidiary of Air Liquide, Seppic has been developing, manufacturing and marketing a wide range of innovative ingredients for cosmetic, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and veterinary products for over 75 years. Seppic combines multiple expertises in the fields of polymers, surfactants and emulsion technologies, active ingredients, biology, immunology, formulation, green chemistry, extraction and biotechnologies. Combining the dynamism of an international company on a human scale with the solidity of a large group, Seppic forms a team of nearly 800 talented men and women around the world who are passionate about what they do every day, serving their customers and the health, well-being and beauty of all. www.seppic.com

The Supply Chain Manager will negotiate favorable terms, volume discounts and long-term contracts with suppliers and prepare and process requisitions and purchase orders for the procurement of goods, services and supplies for customer-related business processes or for internal use as a generalist or in a combination of Purchasing Disciplines.

This role will manage professional employees and/or supervisors or supervises large, complex support, production or operations team(s), has accountability for the performance and results of a team within own discipline or function, adapts departmental plans and priorities to address resource and operational challenges, decisions and problem-solving are guided by policies, procedures and business plan; receives guidance from senior manager, & provides technical guidance to employees, colleagues and/or customers.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate price and incoterm with raw materials and packaging with local suppliers

• Manage the MRP process to ensure the best manufacturing schedule of Seppic Inc., Richmond in accordance with sales forecast and stock level target

• Purchasing of non-stored goods in coordination with Air Liquide’s corporate purchasing team

• Leverage corporate purchasing best practices

• To organize procurement activities to include raw materials, packaging etc

• To ensure the management of Seppic Inc., Richmond stock (Raw material receipt and transfer to manufacturing line, Finished products stock management)

• To organize the shipping of customers orders (Worldwide)

• Manage all procurement needs for the Polykon plant

• Manager the Procurement and Supply Chain team

• To ensure the ERP systems have appropriate parameters in place

• To ensure for Seppic Inc., Richmond a good level of MRP analysis (plantification activity)

• To control that procurement activities are done as required

• To ensure a good handling of products in the Polykon warehouse and in the external warehouse in accordance with safety rules and GMP

• Participate in Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) each month with the corporate team in Seppic SA

• To take decisions concerning slow raw materials or packaging stock

• To negotiate claims treatment with suppliers

• Manage the claim process with supplies 

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Required Qualifications

• Bachelor degree, Business Administration or related field or equivalent work experience

• 5+ years of supply chain experience 

• 5 + years Manufacturing experience

• A good knowledge of Microsoft AX Dynamics and ERP principles

• A good knowledge of best practice in supply chain and procurement

• Management of diverse teams

• Ability to work independently and within teams

• Good distribution practices (EFFCi and FDA)

• Management experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior industrial gas experience

• Fluency in French

Our Differences make our Performance

At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.