Supply Chain Manager

Supply Chain Manager Overview

Supply Chain Manager is an exempt, leadership-level role with full accountability for stabilizing, correcting, and sustaining supply chain performance in a subsea manufacturing environment. This position exists to resolve material availability failures, enforce execution discipline, and ensure the business meets production schedules and customer delivery commitments.

This role exercises independent judgment, sets departmental strategy, and directs the work of procurement, buying, and shipping/warehouse functions. The Supply Chain Manager is responsible for outcomes—not merely oversight—and is expected to take decisive, proactive, cost‑effective supply chain acquisition, and corrective action when supply performance, supplier reliability, or internal execution falls short. This role ensures the timely delivery of products to our customers.

This position oversees the procurement of materials and services to support BIRNS’ manufacturing operations, and implements strategies to provide materials and services meeting requirements for quality, cost, and availability, and is responsible to negotiate and secure best and cost‑effective pricing to reduce costs.

• Procurement Manager
• Senior Buyer
• Shipping, Warehouse and Distribution Personnel

The following is a framework of the essential duties and responsibilities for this role. Other duties may be assigned based on business needs.

• Exercise independent discretion and judgment in planning, prioritizing and directing supply chain operations.
• Establish department objectives, performance standards, and corrective action plans aligned with business needs.
• Allocate resources, set priorities, and resolve escalated supply issues without day‑to‑day supervision.
• Lead, evaluate, and hold direct reports accountable for measurable performance outcomes.

• Assume full ownership of material availability and supply continuity across all programs.
• Immediately identify and correct gaps contributing to missed production schedules or customer delivery failures.
• Serve as the single point of accountability for supply risk, shortages, and supplier non‑performance.
• Implement short‑term recovery actions and long‑term structural fixes.

• Direct procurement strategy, sourcing decisions, and supplier negotiations.
• Establish and enforce supplier performance standards for lead time, quality, delivery, and responsiveness.
• Actively manage high‑risk, long‑lead, and single‑source suppliers with mitigation and contingency plans.
• Replace, elevate, or renegotiate with suppliers that fail to meet business requirements.

• Oversee buying activities to ensure purchase orders support production demand and delivery commitments.
• Enforce inventory controls to prevent shortages, excess inventory, and obsolescence.
• Ensure ERP/MRP data accuracy and disciplined planning inputs.
• Drive inventory turns and working capital improvements without compromising production readiness.

• Ensure accurate, compliant, and timely receipt and shipment of materials and finished goods.
• Enforce operational discipline, safety, and organization in warehouse environments.
• Ensure on‑time customer shipments and adherence to export and regulatory requirements relevant to subsea manufacturing.

• Define, track, and report key supply chain KPIs.
• Implement corrective action plans when metrics fall below acceptable levels.
• Lead process improvements to strengthen planning, execution, and accountability across the supply chain.

• Partner with Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Finance, and Program Management to align supply execution with business priorities.
• Provide leadership input on make/buy decisions, capacity planning, and risk assessments.
• Support new product introductions and engineering changes with proactive supply readiness.

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business,…