Do you want to be Autocar’s Vice President of materials Management?

Your mission

Provide the overall strategic and operational direction for operational logistics and inventory management. This position works alongside our VP of Procurement and is a crucial part in the chain of ensuring the correct quantities of the correct parts are ordered at the correct time to be available just in time for manufacturing at the stations they are needed.

What Does it Take to Be Part of Our Team?

You’ll Achieve These Key Outcomes:

• Meet all strategic supply chain requirements of the organization which include parts delivered on time, within total cost constraints, specifications to engineering compliance, and in a manner that helps build ongoing, lasting, mutually beneficial relationships with key suppliers
• Build a strong team of professionals that can continue to improve supply chain objectives into the future
• Ensure that ERP scheduling is adhere to so that production demand is perfectly matched
• Manage the cashflow timing by reducing cash-to-cash cycle times
• Manage internal warehouse logistics across two manufacturing plants
• Ensure cost targets are met in alignment with strategic objectives
• Support change management

You’ll Demonstrate These Competencies for Success:

• Proven competency in supply chain management in the automotive space
• The ability to build collaborative internal relationships with the procurement and production functions
• The ability to use diagnostic information gathering to build an understanding of how to improve existing processes
• Forward thinking and problem-solving abilities coupled with the ability to function in a fast-paced environment
• Strong results orientation that sets challenging goals for yourself and your team and holds all parties accountable
• Thoroughness to ensure that your work and those of your team is accurate and aligned with requirements
• Innovation - Displays original thinking and creativity; Meets challenges with resourcefulness; Generates suggestions for improving work; Develops innovative.

Your Background Includes:

• 
  Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience; Master’s degree preferred
• Finance, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, or Industrial Engineering degrees preferred
• 15+ years of experience in global supply chain, procurement, and quality control, in vehicle manufacturing or heavy-duty equipment manufacturing
• Experience in high volume, high complexity environments
• Automotive experience, preferably in the commercial vehicle category
• Working knowledge of sourcing process, systems, tools, and methods
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• Ability to lead the supply chain organization and develop outstanding and viable relationships
• Proven ability to drive cohesion and collaboration among many different people and functions
• You may have Supply Chain Certification (APICS, CPIM, CSCM)
• You thrive under the challenge to deliver custom solutions for your customers on time, every time - even when customer requirements change

Where will you work?

What do we offer in benefits?

About Autocar

At Autocar, we are transforming the vocational truck industry, providing the highest quality, safest, and most advanced technology in the severe-duty class 8 vocational truck segment. Every truck we make is custom-engineered, and custom built to the customer’s specifications.

We are a privately US owned and operated company that expects our team members to act with an owner mindset: Relentless about creating value for the end user. Dogged about finding efficiencies and eliminating waste. Standing arm and arm with the rest of the team until the job is done—and ready to do it again the next day, with a smile.