Global Supply Chain Director

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Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Wellbore Integrity Solutions (WIS) operates globally in the oilfield services sector, providing customers with a suite of products, applications, and services that ensure well integrity throughout the life of the well. We employ more than 1,300 people across six continents in over 25 countries.

• Strategic Planning, Sourcing/Operations Execution
• Develop and execute short and long‑term strategies to optimize supply chain efficiency.
• Create multi‑year roadmap of strategic initiatives, continuous improvement, and supplier development programs.
• Own and analyse the master financial reporting of business supplier costs, operational performance, and inventory management; identify opportunities for continuous improvement, value‑add/value‑engineering projects and other cost savings projects.
• Use knowledge/expertise to manage operations, cost drivers, changing supply base, and market innovation to capture lower costs and/or high value alternatives to meet stakeholder needs.
• Establish relationships with functional and regional leaders to ensure operational and sourcing strategies align with our business goals and objectives. Collaborate on the smooth implementation of product changes, and operational execution.
• Collaborate with Operations, Engineering and Quality teams to ensure customer needs are met and develop and maintain quarterly supplier scorecard system.
• Create sustainable and consistent processes for strategic sourcing initiatives, operational improvements, RFQ/P, and commodity management.
• Regularly adapt sourcing strategies in relation to market trends and business requirements to enhance effectiveness.
• Develop and own strategic matrix of suppliers to identify risks, gaps and opportunities in supply chain, including the development of new suppliers, dual/multi‑source strategy, management of sole‑sourced suppliers when required, and exit strategies for suppliers that don’t meet supplier standards.
• Support operations and product development to ensure contingencies and buy/make/partners are appropriately evaluated and identified.
• Assess the supply market, our current and future state to develop sourcing strategies and risk mitigation; includes monitoring tariffs to proactively manage impact on business.
• Support and influence New Technology Development programs in a cross‑functional setting with product management, engineering, manufacturing, and quality to identify emerging technologies and potential suppliers.
• Own results for key performance metrics and the annual budget.
• Acquire a deep understanding of the supply markets that provide material, products, or services.
• Identify and aggregate technical, commercial, risk, opportunity, and demand requirement for contract negotiation. Lead negotiation and execution of key agreements.
• Lead the development and execute the Supplier Management strategy and including Supplier Relationship Management, Performance Management, Issue Resolution, and the identification/on‑boarding of new suppliers. Utilize formal processes for supplier selection, qualification, contracting and management.
• Logistics Coordination:
  Oversee the movement of goods from production facilities to distribution centres and ultimately to end‑users.
• Continuous Improvement
• Work closely with long‑term suppliers to manage core supply base for productivity/cost down initiatives through the use of VA/VE tools.
• Actively optimise the company’s production capabilities by driving a continuous improvement process to measure current performance, identify opportunities, develop plans and effect change to improve results.
• Manage footprint rationalisation program.
• Champion and drive total cost of ownership (TCO) reductions.
• Management/Leadership
• Attract, retain, motivate and develop high performing, diverse teams.
• Drive positive employee engagement.
• Provide effective and appropriate communication to all employees to ensure timely and consistent information; this includes facilitating regular All‑Employee and skip‑level meetings.
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