Supply Chain Snr Manager

Oracle (Hillsboro)


For over three decades, Oracle has been the center of innovation for business software - birthplace of the first commercially available relational database, the first suite of internet-based applications, and the next-generation enterprise-computing platform, Oracle Fusion. Today, Oracle provides the world’s most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems, with more than 370,000 customers - including 100 of the Fortune 100 - representing a variety of sizes and industries in more than 145 countries around the globe. And Oracle's 110,000 global employees—including 30,000 developers working full-time on Oracle products—are critical to that success.

Oracle recruiters are always searching for brilliant employees with an entrepreneurial spirit, looking for a work culture where innovation is the goal, hard work is expected, and creativity is rewarded. Oracle employees enjoy competitive salaries, excellent health benefits, and a network of like-minded co-workers that drive innovation across the entire technology industry.

Plans and implements activities related to the timely, cost-effective procurement, inventory control, planning and quality control of production materials.

Responsibilities:

  • Second level manager position responsible for ~40 person supply chain management team within Manufacturing group
  • Ensures team objectives and deliverables are met, including those related to cost, timeliness and quality.
  • Manages a team of Oracle employees, with authority to hire, fire, performance manage, discipline and make recommendations with respect to pay and recognition. Team may be global in its makeup and scope.
  • Manages the budget of the work group (authorizes and approves expenses, overtime etc.)
  • Assures compliance to Oracle policies and applicable regulations as they pertain to the work group
  • May manage a team that develops and communicates high level supply plans that conveys Oracle's liability to suppliers
  • May manage a team the manages supplier delivery performance to purchase orders
  • May manage a team that drives supply chain services, inventory control, critical parts availability, material handling, import-export compliance, shipment of products and third-party warehousing
  • May manage a team that monitors and drives prompt scheduling and/or shipping of sales orders for an assigned subset of Oracle’s order backlog
  • May lead a team that negotiates master supply agreements, contract amendments and product award letters with suppliers
  • Negotiates product cost reductions periodically with suppliers that may include online bidding events and conventional negotiation
  • Effectively influences both horizontally and vertically in ambiguous or dynamic environments
  • May lead cross functional teams on product transitions and/or crisis management on material constraints.
  • May interface with new product introduction teams and value engineering groups
  • Identifies and implements process improvements to improve worker efficiency, reduce scrap costs, and improve product delivery predictability.

Requirements:

  • 10+ years relevant work experience; to include at least 5 years of management
  • Materials management experience in a High Tech company.
  • Materials management experience with a low volume, high mix experience product.
  • Materials management with a PCB-based product. PCB = printed circuit board
  • Materials experience (customer order execution primarily, purchasing and supply management are secondary)
  • Materials experience in a Fortune 500 company.
  • 2nd level management experience a must
  • Technical degree or Supply Chain Management degree
  • Person should be proven director-ready or capable of moving into a future director role

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