Director, Supply Chain

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Job Description:
The Director, Supply Chain & Quality, International plays a pivotal role in creating and transforming a best-in-class global supply chain and quality organization. The role will design and execute an end-to-end strategy that elevates service levels, ensures uncompromising quality, streamlines supply operations, optimizes the global footprint, and reduces total landed cost. The Director will champion a culture of excellence, quality, scalability, and continuous improvement, ensuring that Kinetico’s operations become a competitive differentiator for the company.
Key Areas Of Responsibility:

• Leadership and Team Development: Lead and develop high-performing teams across supply chain, logistics, and quality.
  

Foster a culture of continuous improvement and cross-functional collaboration.

• Demand Planning and S&OP / IBP: Drive Demand Planning and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) / Integrated Business Planning (IBP) processes.
  

Ensure accurate, data-driven forecasting through advanced analytics and strong collaboration across functions.

• Supply Planning and Inventory Management: Build supply plans that optimize service levels, cost efficiency, and manufacturing capacity.
  

Implement strategies for inventory optimization, safety stock modeling, and material availability.

• Distribution Network Optimization: Manage distribution centers and optimize network footprint through scenario modeling, DC consolidation, 3PL evaluation, and strategic placement decisions.
  

Balance cost-to-serve with service excellence to design a world-class distribution network.

• Logistics and Transportation: Develop multimodal transportation strategies, considering tariffs, customs, and international logistics.
  

Negotiate with logistics providers to implement cost-efficient and reliable transportation solutions.

• Operational Excellence: Oversee key processes including production planning, procurement, warehousing, stockroom operations, and shipping/receiving.
  

Drive initiatives for total cost management, commodity strategies, and supplier performance improvement.

• Quality Leadership: Lead the Quality function in partnership with global and regional Quality teams.
  

Ensure Compliance With Global Standards And Regulatory Requirements By:

• Implementing robust reporting and tracking systems.
• Driving corrective and preventive actions.
• Promoting continuous improvement initiatives to elevate product and process quality.
  

Qualifications & Experience:

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Engineering, or related field
• Required: 15+ years of progressive experience in global supply chain management, including multi-site or multi-country leadership roles.
• Preference: Master’s degree and/or recognized professional certifications (APICS, CSCP, CPIM, Lean/Six Sigma, PMP).
• Demonstrated leadership experience building, redesigning, and optimizing supply chain networks at large, complex organizations.
• Demonstrated success leading global teams and developing high-performance supply chain organizations.
• Ability to drive complex transformation programs, challenge the status quo, and implement new processes, technologies, and capabilities.
• Strong analytical and decision-making capability to interpret data and make informed and timely choices that balance strategic objectives with operational needs.
• Exceptional ability to communicate clearly and persuasively across all organizational levels, while influencing decisions and fostering collaboration among diverse stakeholders.
• Proven negotiation skills to secure agreements that maximize value and minimize risk.
  

Our Commitment And Difference:
Founded in 1970, Kinetico was started by two engineers who pioneered the development of non-electric, fully automatic water treatment systems. Evolving from the Tangent Company, a small consulting design firm, Kinetico soon became a global organization of independent dealers, international distributors representing nearly 100 countries. Through the dedication of its founders, emp