Sr Supply Chain Business Improvement Manager

What you will do:

The Sr. Supply Chain Business Improvement Manager, is responsible for providing insights and analysis on the economic impact of initiatives that are critical to our Supply Chain. This role will lead and champion the supply chain team in developing and maintaining many aspects of financial planning to ensure clear financial visibility of our supply chain business operations and trends and will drive the business to achieve and improve our goals. Provide guidance and support to manage and monitor the budget and will provide financial analysis, and modeling. This role will also work closely with department leaders and cross-functional teams to support projects and decision-making processes. In addition, this role will be responsible for identifying opportunities within the business that will deliver both cost savings and operational efficiencies by working closely with the VP of Supply Chain, EVP, Operations and on occasion other functional leaders. A strong candidate will have a demonstrated track record of being a self-starter who is comfortable working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

Here’s a day in the life:

• Provide strategic analysis to identify key drivers of financial trends within the supply chain.
• Lead and improve monthly and quarterly reporting with the ability to identity KPI's and explain variances within results.
• Lead the development of the annual operating plan and quarterly forecasting process, identify KPI's and publish scorecards and dashboards.
• Partner cross functionally to:
  • Proactively identify business drivers with the commercial finance team across all sales channels.
  • Ensure full analysis is performed on potential innovation projects, capital investments, or new/modified customer requests.
  • Provide transparent reporting and timely analysis for executive review and Board presentations.
• Develop deep collaborative relationships with the Supply Chain Leadership Team to support effective and efficient cross-functional work, information flow and problem solving, including:
  • Define and establish the operational strategies, processes and tools to manage and monitor the performance of Supply Chain end to end.
  • Oversee development of the monthly SC Productivity forecast vs budget and prior year.
  • Support the operational base and productivity portions of the annual operating plan.
• Review existing processes for improvement and efficiencies.
• Oversee process to define and deliver ad hoc analysis, standard reports, and recommendations to VP of SC and EVP Operations.
• Identify opportunities to automate historically manual processes and reporting. Ability to navigate SQL & build PowerBI tools to automate processes.
• Partnerships, Profits, Plans and Process: interact with Supply Chain and Finance management, as well as leaders throughout Tillamook to ensure financial goals and strategies are achieved, by monitoring and reporting on key financial and non-financial performance indicators specific to Supply Chain.
• Report Building:
  • Design and create forward looking reporting to help management with better decision making. Think outside the box to provide data in ways that management had not thought of before.
• Complex Analysis and Scenario Modeling to help “facilitate” better decision making:
  • Firm focus on performing complex financial analyses as well as generating models to support decision making within Supply Chain Finance. You will use these insights to make recommendations to Management. We are looking for someone who has a passion for analytics!
    
• Communication and Change Management Responsibilities
• Partner with Stewardship to help strategize our long-term efforts to enable business improvement activities.
  

Knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• Bachelor’s in Business or master’s degree preferred.
• 10 years relevant experience inclusive of at least 4 years program/project management experience.
• Experience leading and facilitating completion of business projects including, financial reporting, insights and analytics.
• Innovative, strategic and logical thinker with strong analytical and problem solving skills. Highly motivated & self-directed.
• Ability to interface professionally with all levels & functions of the organization. Exceptional attention to detail, highly organized, effective facilitator and communicator. Ability to multi-task & prioritize items to meet project deadlines
• Ability train and lead various company supply chain resources in meeting project support deadlines.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills with proficiency in MS PowerPoint, Visio, MS Excel and analytics platforms. Ability to travel when needed
  

Key managerial responsibilities:

Responsible for and holds others accountable for executing activities that accomplish project objectives within established  timeframe and budget and enhance people and culture development and growth; directs the resolution of complex business problems sometimes requiring innovative solutions by applying advanced analytical thought and judgement to support complex programs/projects; demonstrating financial responsibility by protecting the employers’ financial interests; and serving as role model by demonstrating professionalism, honesty, integrity, ethical behavior and living our company values.

Industry leading benefit and reward programs:

We offer outstanding benefits to our employees. For more information, please visit the careers page: www.tillamook.com/careers.

We are committed to creating a diverse culture and inclusive conditions where all employees are heard, valued and feel a sense of belonging.  We rely on different perspectives, thoughts, backgrounds and cultures to inform our work, to help us be better as a brand and as an employer and to fuel our success.  We are seeking talent from a wide range of diversity, perspectives, and backgrounds to join our exceptional organization and help us build our future.   

Tillamook County Creamery Association (TCCA) is a Drug-Free Workplace.   EEO/AA