VP, Supply Chain

Job Summary:
Responsible for overseeing global supply chain strategies to support each business unit and company objectives and drive best practice results in supply chain operations. Develops procurement team who manage supplier relationships to ensure efficient and cost-effective acquisition of materials. Develops logistics leaders who manage inventory and supply chain processes. Oversees the development of policies, procedures, and processes related to materials sourcing, production planning, purchasing, inventory management, storage, and distribution. Ensures that the movement of raw materials, in-process goods, or completed components meet production needs and customer expectations. Sets supply chain performance and quality standards. The role demands a deep understanding of procurement and logistics practices. Direct responsibilities include leading teams responsible for translating corporate objectives into strategic sourcing and logistics plans for production targets and working in close collaboration with manufacturing, PBU leadership, product management and engineering. Required to consistently demonstrate and sustain AAON core values including moral character, positive attitude and work ethic, team empowerment, boundaryless innovation, and a safe and respectful work environment. Strategic decisions have medium to long-term impact on operations.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develops supply chain strategies aligned with overall business objectives and oversees execution through leadership team.
• Collaborates closely with PBU leaders and the manufacturing leader to define and execute procurement priorities through seamless coordination and communication.
• Works closely with the manufacturing leader to optimize the overall integrated supply chain of AAON plants and supplier plants.
• Leads a team of procurement professionals who analyze and understand supply markets in each major supply category and develop and execute strategic sourcing strategy in each category.
• Oversees the development of supply chain optimization to meet inventory targets.
• Identifies and mitigates procurement risks. Proposes strategic sourcing opportunities to executive leadership team.
• Responsible for ensuring each manufacturing site has necessary inventory to support production processes and ensure efficiency, quality, and cost-effectiveness.
• Oversees the planning and flow of materials through effective materials management processes.
• Leads warehouse and shipping teams to manage inventory and ensure products are shipped on time.
• Works with PBU leadership on cost and risk analysis for internal versus external sourcing strategies.
• Develops leadership team to effectively manage supplier relationships, mitigate risks, and manage quality and materials cost.
• Ensures strategic sourcing and continuous improvement initiatives are implemented and evaluated.
• Collaborates with PBU leadership on inventory budgets and is accountable for budget management.
• Stays current with technological advancements in supply chain management and empowers team to implement relevant technologies that improve efficiency and competitiveness.
• Fosters a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Ensures procurement processes comply with relevant regulations, safety standards, and industry best practices.
• Analyzes supply chain and procurement data to identify trends, address issues, and drive continuous improvement.
• As the global procurement executive, you will be responsible for leading the supply chain and procurement teams to achieve KPIs related to inventory targets, quality, safety, financial performance, and employee experience.

KPIs:

As the supply chain executive, you will be responsible for leading the company’s supply chain team to achieve KPIs related to supply availability, quality, direct materials cost, supply timing, employee experience, and departmental expense.

Competencies:

• Self-leadership – Acts with integrity and demonstrates great moral character. Owns individual and team mistakes and oversights. Demonstrates openness and willingness to seek and act upon feedback. Continuously seeks out blind spots and works to close personal gaps. Isn’t afraid to speak up and ask for help or input.
• People Leadership - Inspires and leads teams to achieve results; attracts talent and thoughtfully match skills to positions; develops and empowers team members to thrive; provides regular feedback; and courageously manages conflict effectively and in the moment. Promotes a safe, respectful environment for employees.
• Financial acumen - Understands key financial indicators to make better business decisions and knows what changes are needed to effect improvements in financial performance. Identifies and monitors key financial metrics and budgets to gauge performance, identify trends, and inspire strategies that can impact results. Can use financials to evaluate potential operational or strategic opportunities.
• Strategic and business acumen - Knows the range of strategic and operational levers available to a business; recognizes opportunities for business improvement; develops compelling, actionable, long-term strategies to win; and develops goals and plans to implement those strategies.
• Decision making - Identifies problems, analyzes data, and makes sound decisions quickly. Considers multiple and varied perspectives when addressing problems and opportunities.
• Innovation and agility - Continually assesses the potential of innovative ideas or solutions. Moves beyond traditional ways of doing things; pushes past the status quo. Can deliver results in difficult first-time situations by managing ambiguity, leading change, and being resourceful. Embraces complexity and examines problems from multiple angles.
• Managing execution - Plans and prioritizes work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals. Works to establish explicit performance standards for function. Drives results through contributions of team; hold people accountable. Consistently works to achieve results, even under tough circumstances. Creates new and better ways for the organization to win.
• Executive relationship management - Interacts effectively and credibly with senior executives at customers, channel partners, and suppliers. Manages relationships to deliver benefit to company. Develops and maintains productive relationships with AAON peers to achieve results for AAON.

Knowledge:

• Commercial HVAC products and market knowledge – Understands comfort cooling market attributes including key customer wants and needs, the relative strengths and weaknesses of key market players, the dynamics of channel structure, and the intricacies of how business technologies affect the customer experience. Understands key market trends and how they benefit or threaten the company. Deeply understands AAON's competitive position in the commercial HVAC products markets, its solutions' functionality and technical attributes, its unique value propositions, and its competitive strategies.
• Data center HVAC solutions and market knowledge – Understands data center cooling market attributes, including key customer wants and needs, the relative strengths and weaknesses of key market players, the dynamics of channel structure, and the intricacies of how business technologies affect the customer experience. Understand key market trends and how they benefit or threaten the company. Deeply understand AAON’s competitive position in the data center cooling markets, its solutions’ functionality and technical attributes, its unique value propositions, and its competitive strategies.
• Procurement – Understands and supports the role of Procurement in developing and executing supplier relationships that assure supply and enhance product quality at a competitive cost.
• Logistics – Understands and supports the role of the Supply Chain function in setting and executing supply chain targets to optimize materials and products delivery and working capital.
• Manufacturing – Understands and supports the role of Manufacturing in driving product quality, competitive cost, and delivery timing through thoughtful manufacturing footprint strategy, robust lean processes and systems, and consistent execution.

Education and Experience Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, procurement, operations or related field and 15 years of experience with a demonstrated track record of success in a procurement or supply chain leadership role. Experience in HVAC and/or Data Center markets is strongly preferred.

Work Environment:

• Sitting for prolonged periods
• Requires frequent visits to manufacturing facilities with seasonal hot and cold temperatures, dust, and some chemical fume exposure.
• Extensive travel required including overnight stays.

Disclaimer:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at a time with or without notice. This job description is not an exhaustive list of all functions that the employee may be required to perform, and the employee may be required to perform additional functions. The company reserves the right to revise this job description at any time. The employee must be able to perform the essential functions of the position satisfactorily. If requested, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job, absent undue hardship.