Find what drives you on a team with a more than 75-year history of discovery, determination, and innovation. As a global leader in high-tech filtration, separation, and purification, Pall Corporation thrives on helping our customers solve their toughest challenges. Our products serve diverse, global customer needs across a wide range of applications to advance health, safety and environmentally responsible technologies. The Director of Materials and Supply Chain EMEA is responsible to create, articulate and support Pall’s DMS (Danaher Material Systems) Strategy throughout the materials teams globally, with responsibility for their region. The Director of Materials will do this by working with and providing direction for Materials Mangers on-site to tailor and then execute the PFEP based on Regional/Market nuance, with a goal to create a responsive end-to-end supply chain environment working with our Strategic Sourcing partners. Cooperation with Global Sourcing Team and being efficient to support sourcing strategy. This person is responsible for the dotted line management of the Materials Managers, providing support for their teams and direction on processes to ensure standards and alignment to the Pall’s Global Strategy for DMS, Commodities and Sourcing.
This role is an onsite position in Bad Kreuznach, Germany and is part of the Global Integrated Supply Chain Team.
Deploy site goals and targets by aligning global targets for materials managers
Support & Maintain strategic subcontractors and OEM business, make sure they keep capacity, price, quality to our demands.
Support Global Sourcing Team by knowing EMEA sourcing market for our products and services.
Develop PFEP standards aligned to Global commodity strategies and feedback to the sourcing team to support and influence supplier decisions that impact inventory & service levels.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
~5 + years of experience in materials planning and procurement in an international manufacturing and supply chain environment.
~5+ years of experience in inventory management, logistics, demand planning, and scheduling. 5+ years of proven functional leadership experience within the procurement and inventory management field.
~5+ years of experience supporting new business opportunities/proposals with supplier technical innovation/information.
~5+ years of experience using continuous improvement tools and methodologies to include lean conversion and KPIs improvement, on-time delivery, Lead time, cost and Inventory reduction, Supplier development, etc.
~5+ years of working with ERP Systems based on MRP.
~ Strong proficiency in German and English is essential for effective communication.
Knowledge of the Global Marketplace with experience ideally in filtration and separation processes or related disciplines.
Experience in developing business strategy, and leading strategic initiatives in support of functional and business objectives.
Good record of KPIs improvement, on-time delivery, lead time, cost and Inventory reduction, Supplier development, etc.
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