Supply Chain Manager COE

Florida Crystals is a leading domestic sugar producer and North America’s first fully integrated cane sugar company, guiding our sugar from farm to table.  We are America’s first and only producer of certified organic sugar, grown and harvested in the United States. Our renewable energy facility is the largest of its kind in North America and provides clean energy that powers our sugar operations, which helps us reduce our use of fossil fuels.  Florida Crystals also sustainably farms rice, sweet corn and other vegetables in rotation with our sugarcane.  Our rice mill is the only rice mill in Florida. 

OVERVIEW

The Supply Chain Manager COE reports directly to the Director of Supply Chain Services and is responsible for supporting, identifying new ways of working and project manage all global activities for Procurement and Supply Chain Materials Management department.  The role will have up to five direct reports and will support early career rotational program(s).  The COE (Center of Excellence) will be responsible for standardizing and implementing reporting / metrics capabilities for the department, along with SOP’s.  This group will also be a second tier support for SAP, Ariba, BW, SAC, Hana, BWP HANA, Supplier Enablement and utilization of PowerBi.  This role will support and/or lead team for new project initiatives for Procurement or Materials Management.  The last area of focus is improving ways of working and looking at all functional tools that enable the department’s efficiencies.

DETAILED ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for all procurement, materials management, demand planning processes, and supporting technologies across the company.
• Manage, develop, and  own all Metric/KPI’s for entire department
• Accountable for understanding how source to pay processes and technologies integrate across the network.  Will be responsible for designing future connectivity.
• Architect of the 3 - 5 year vision for improving Source-to-Pay processes.
• Identify industry best practices for developing long-term, meaningful 12 - 60 month plans from Source to Pay and Inventory Management.
• Perform deep analysis on departmental compliance as well as identifying root cause analysis for Inbound Supply Chain and Procurement
• Implement Procurement & Materials Management process changes and work with department heads in the business to standardize where feasible
• Lead the Source-to-Pay practices across the organization and work with COE, Supply Chain, IT, procurement, operations, and finance.
• Will work cross-functionally within the GPO inner departments, company, and globally across regions for business process optimization.
• Process governance:
  • Form a companywide strategic roadmap to improve planning capabilities.
  • Deploy best practices in source to pay across geographies as appropriate.
  • Align strategic roadmap with key stakeholders across functions, hierarchy and different parts of the business.
  • Effectively support change management and adoption of new processes.
  • Hold teams accountable for departmental compliance
• Process design:
  • Critically assess the current and future processes - maturity, governance, stability.
  • Design the roadmap to improve planning capabilities that includes process, analytical framework, technology, and training.
  • Align changes to the process as required by other changes (e.g., organizational changes in commercial or finance, company structure, M&A, etc.).
• Measurement and continuous improvement:
  • Define key planning metrics and report on performance across geographies.
  • Track benefits and improvement across the business.
• Channels continuous improvement ideas across the COE and selects suitable ones to turn into projects
• Technology enablement:
  • Identify and research technology and analytics that support business goals and objectives.
  • Leverage leading technologies including but not limited to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to drive efficiencies and competitive advantage across planning
  • Manage the investigation and business case to implement technology/ analytics upgrades
  • Support the implementations of new technology related to planning

WORK EXPERIENCES

• 8+ years in Supply Chain with specific experience in either supply or demand planning, S&OP, Procurement, and or Materials Management functions.
• Understand the foundational processes from requisition to check process

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university
   

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY

• 5+ direct reports

ESSENTIAL CAPABILITIES (KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES AND PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES)

• Strong analytical skills
• Accountable and flexible in approach
• Effective communicator
• Results-driven business-person
• Strong financial acumen
• Ability to clearly communicate and influence teams
• Strategic thinker with long term vision
• Deep Planning knowledge, tools and process
• SAP MM & Procurement Modules
• Ariba
• Supplier Enablement
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suites
• SAP knowledge desirable
• Ability to root cause analysis
• Data mining in Core SAP & Ariba
• Expert in PowerBi

LOCATION OF ROLE

•  West Palm Beach, FL

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.  All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.