Director, Instrument Supply Chain

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  Impactful Work: When you join Diasorin, you become part of a team that's dedicated to improving lives. Your contributions will directly impact patient care, making a meaningful difference in the world.
  

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  Global Reach & Innovation: Our work transcends borders. Joining Diasorin means collaborating with colleagues from all over the world, expanding your horizons, and contributing to global healthcare solutions at the forefront of the diagnostic industry.
  

Job Scope

The Instruments Supply Chain Director is responsible for managing the daily and long-term strategy of the instrument supply chain to ensure availability of products to customers while maintaining a pre-stablished level of service and spending budget. Ensures resources, inventory, and materials are in place to deliver instruments to domestic and global customers.

This highly skilled professional should have the ability to execute a longer-term strategy to optimize our supply chain processes, while also being excited to dig into immediate tactical needs.

Position will be reporting to the VP of Operations - LTG and Instruments

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Supervise areas spanning commodity managers Buyers, Planners, Receiving, Inventory Material Handling, Shipping and Transportation Logistics, totaling 25 team members
• Through global partnering, drive long term cost savings and value improvement projects that deliver a win-win value to the company and suppliers
• Direct strategies for global direct and indirect spend to improve profitability, asset utilization, inventory levels, and payables performance.
• Assess external market trends and conditions to identify opportunities and risks in managed spend categories. Structure analysis of spend to enable informed decision-making. Ensure sourcing efforts leverage market intelligence, should-cost modeling, and TCO analysis.
• Partner closely with R&D in the new product development process. Develop a process to screen, qualify, and select most appropriate supplier for the procurement of materials and supplies in accordance with product specifications by end users.
• Draft, review, update, and negotiate supplier terms and conditions and maintain active agreements and contracts for all products and services in accordance with company policy, quality standards, SOX requirements, and regulatory compliance.
• Establish processes for executing and reporting annual cost savings programs to drive improved metrics on Quality, Cost, Delivery, Technology, and Management Commitment. When performance issues emerge, identify root causes and drive to efficient resolution by working across both internal and external stakeholders.
• Leads analysis to identify drivers for excess, inactive, obsolete, and expired inventory. Ensure link to S&OP process worldwide and proactive management of distressed inventory.
• Deploys metrics into all areas of the Instrument supply chain to analyze and drive best demonstrated inventory management practices, meet demand, and satisfy customer expectations
• Drive efficiencies by establishing realistic budgets, maintaining accurate bills of materials and driving cost savings initiatives
• Actively manages supply chain to meet all internal and external customer commitments
• Educate group leaders and team members so that they understand the financial objectives and guide them in understanding their role in meeting these objectives.
• Actively facilitate in sharing of information across the organization in a way that results in good coordination of actions, decisions and continuous improvement
• Ensure that direct reports are acting in a manner that consistently demonstrates compliance with DiaSorin's established health, safety, and environmental policies including the use of PPE, attending EHS training and following appropriate safety precautions. Document and discuss violations with direct report.
• Actively participate in and support efforts to improve the safety of the workplace (i.e. incident reporting, conducting safety audits, attending safety committee meetings, etc.)
• Follow DiaSorin's established compliance procedures designed to ensure that all regulatory requirements are met; activities may include audits, documentation, and the understanding of the requirements of agencies such as OSHA, EPA, NRC and FDA.

Education, Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain management or Business-related field required and
• Master's Degree in advanced area of study, science, engineering or business required

• 10+ Years of progressive management experience in supply chain in the IVD, medical devices or pharma sectors. required

• Possible alternative experiences can include food industry, automotive or other mechanical assembly required

• Inventory Planning Experience required

• Inbound/Outbound logistics experience (relationship management with national/international shippers and 3PL's) required

• Prior experience with ERP systems (SAP preferred) required

• Lean or Six Sigma experience and certification desired preferred

Training and Skills

• Strong analytical thinker and problem-solving ability to diagnose problems, resolve key issues and implement corrective actions with a keen sense of customer focus

• Excellent organizational and planning skills with attention to detail

• Ability to work in a fast paced, demanding environment

• Ability to work efficiently and handle multiple projects and tasks concurrently

• Ability to influence all levels of staff, including executives

• Knowledge and understanding of FDA, IVD(EU) and ISO standards

• Skill at preparing and presenting written materials such as reports, presentations and proposals

• Ability to utilize financial reports to develop budgets, analyze expenditures versus budgets and to implement cost control measures

• Ability to initiate and implement policy, systems, and practices in managing people which enhance retention, motivation, reward, coaching, direction, development and separation.

• Ability to give authority and/or autonomy of decision making and action taking to others to better distribute work activities or to develop staff

• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel

Licenses and Certifications

• APICS or Institute for Supply Management (ISM) credential preferred

Travel Requirements

• Occasional domestic and international travel is required (< 6 times per year)