Supply Chain Manager

Description:

About our company:

Bakerly, a happy family-owned company, is proud to be home to one of the fastest-growing brands in the US food industry! We are a baked goods manufacturer that emphasizes delicious, premium, and authentic recipes using only the very best ingredients. Our offices located in Miami, FL, Easton, PA, and San Antonio, TX, will make you feel right ase visit our website to learn more about our delicious French crêpes, golden chocolate croissants, fluffy pancakes, and our large range of outstanding French brioches.

Scope/Purpose of the Position

The Plant Supply Chain Manager is responsible for directing all supply chain activities at Bakerly's main production facility. This includes leadership over warehousing, inventory control, transportation, production scheduling, and procurement of ingredients and packaging materials. This role ensures reliable material availability, efficient warehouse operations, strong inventory integrity, optimized production schedules, and effective coordination with corporate supply chain, production, quality, R&D, maintenance, and finance.

The Plant Supply Chain Manager leads both strategic and daily operational execution, driving performance, capability building, and continuous improvement across the site's end-to-end supply chain. This role has dual reporting to the Supply Chain Vice President (functional leadership) and the Plant Manager (site operational leadership), reflecting the position's responsibility for both strategic supply chain direction and day-to-day plant execution.

Key Responsibilities and Essential Functions

Leadership & Organizational Management

o Lead and develop the plant Supply Chain organization, including Supply Planning, Procurement, Warehousing, Inventory Control, Transportation, and E-Commerce fulfillment operations.

o Ensure all plant Supply Chain processes, reporting routines, and KPIs are aligned with frameworks and expectations established by the Supply Chain Department.

o Set clear expectations, KPIs, and performance targets that ladder up to Supply Chain department metrics and governance.

o Build capability, train supervisors and coordinators, and develop future leadership bench strength.

o Foster a culture of safety, accuracy, urgency, and continuous improvement across all supply chain functions.

Supply Planning

o Oversee the creation, validation, and optimization of the production schedule in alignment with planning processes, demand signals, and production management requirements

o Collaborate with Production, QA, and Maintenance to manage changeovers, downtime, trials, and material needs

o Maintain ERP and APS data integrity according to Supply Planning & company standards

o Manage plant-level procurement activities to ensure timely availability of raw materials and packaging.

o Execute purchasing activities in accordance with corporate procurement policies, approved suppliers, and sourcing strategies.

o Monitor supplier performance, lead times, and service levels; escalate structural issues through the Supply Chain Department.

o Maintain inventory targets and reorder strategies that comply with corporate planning and inventory policies.

o Support continuous improvement in planning accuracy, production flow, and schedule adherence

Warehousing, Inventory Control & Logistics

o Oversee warehousing and logistics execution while ensuring that operational processes adhere to supply chain department standards and best practices.

o Guarantee accurate and timely material flow to production lines and consistent execution of processes defined by corporate logistics governance.

o Oversee inventory control functions-cycle counts, variance investigations, adjustments-ensuring compliance with corporate inventory accuracy standards.

o Ensure FEFO compliance, lot traceability, QA hold management, and freezer accuracy in alignment with food safety and corporate traceability protocols.

o Oversee outbound shipments, 3PL performance, transportation scheduling, and order execution to meet corporate service-level expectations.

o Drive continuous improvement in warehouse KPIs (dock-to-stock, accuracy, labor productivity, space utilization) using methodologies, dashboards, and targets defined with the Supply Chain Department

o Maintain warehouse and logistics compliance with safety, food safety, regulatory, and audit requirements in accordance with Plant Management

Cross-Functional Alignment

o Partner with Production to ensure schedule adherence, line readiness, and strong coordination between material planning and operational execution.

o Align with QA on material quality, holds/releases, traceability, and compliance issues.

o Support R&D with trials, phase-ins/outs, and product changes, ensuring supply readiness within corporate processes.

o Collaborate with Finance on inventory valuation, variance reporting, audits, and month-end close, ensuring alignment with corporate supply chain financial controls.

o Work with IT and corporate supply chain systems teams to enhance…