About This Role
This role involves leading the strategy and accountability for customer commitments within the Data Center Power Distribution (DCPD) team. The manager will influence priorities, coordinate cross-functional teams, and maintain a holistic view of customer order execution.
Responsibilities
- Review quote activity and order entry to understand demand, incoming orders, and programmatic buys to appropriately balance prioritization and communications
- Leverage cross-functional skills to influence order prioritization through engineering, supply chain, operations, testing, and logistics
- Collaborate closely with Operations to proactively identify current and future capacity, including potential bottlenecks, to align demand plans with operational capabilities
- Review and maintain lead times/status of customer orders in the system
- Identify critical long lead time components and trigger sourcing teams based on plan for every part strategy
- Coordinate costing, master data, and forecasting efforts during ETO design phase
- Coordinate with scheduling and buyers on priorities based on customer demand
- Establish and maintain SAP forecast data with MOM/Quarterly reviews
- Review commitments and monitor schedule attainment of DCPD product lines
- Facilitate cross-functional reviews with engineering, customer service, supply chain, operations, and systems test to ensure accurate commitments to customers for engineer to order solutions
- Calibrate regularly with Product Management, Demand Planning & Operations to understand current backlog and necessary lead-times due to material availability or general capacity
- Work proactively to remove roadblocks and mitigate risks after order entry through final logistics to avoid unnecessary delays for the customer
- Participate actively in monthly financial forecasting and SIOP demand planning
- Develop a strong cross functional team that acts with a customer first mindset, is influential within the manufacturing organization, and is capable of clear, concise, and balanced external communications to a range of audiences
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
- 5 years of related experience in supply chain or operations
- Must be legally authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship
Nice to have:
- SAP Experience
- Experience in customer project management
- Project management certification
- Master’s Degree in Business, Supply Chain or related field
- Previous experience in production scheduling in MTO and ETO manufacturing environment
Skills