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Supply Chain Manager

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Pasadena, TX
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  • Supply Chain Manager
  • Location: Pasadena, TX, US
  • Business Unit: Fuel Cell & Stationary Catalysts

Your Key Accountabilities

  • Leads, coaches, and develops the SC&P Expertise team to deliver safe, reliable, and high-quality outcomes while fostering a culture of accountability, engagement, continuous learning, and professional growth.
  • Establishes clear performance expectations, development plans, succession strategies, and talent management processes to build organizational capability and ensure business continuity.
  • Promotes a culture of safety, inclusion, collaboration, and continuous improvement throughout the team.
  • Translates business and functional priorities into executable plans for the SC&P Expertise organization, aligning resources and capabilities to achieve departmental and enterprise objectives.
  • Drives execution of Supply Chain Strategy and Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) initiatives, ensuring achievement of safety, service, quality, cost, productivity, and timeliness targets.
  • Provides leadership and governance for inventory management processes, ensuring optimal inventory levels that balance customer service, operational reliability, working capital, and cost performance.
  • Monitors inventory performance metrics and collaborates with operations, procurement, logistics, and planning teams to mitigate risks associated with stock shortages, excess inventory, slow-moving materials, and obsolescence.
  • Drives inventory optimization through data analytics, demand forecasting improvements, material planning, cycle counting, root-cause analysis, and digital solutions.
  • Ensures compliance with governance requirements, internal controls, regulatory obligations, and company policies by proactively identifying risks and implementing effective corrective and preventive actions.
  • Maintains a strong control environment and ensures adherence to audit requirements, inventory control standards, and supply chain governance practices.
  • Champions continuous improvement, process standardization, and digital transformation initiatives, leveraging data and KPI insights to achieve sustainable year-over-year performance improvements.
  • Establishes and monitors key performance indicators, ensuring effective tracking, reporting, and accountability for results.
  • Builds strong partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to align priorities, resolve complex issues, and support delivery of business objectives.
  • Represents the SC&P Expertise function in cross-functional forums, leadership discussions, and strategic initiatives.
  • Ensures consistent application of supply chain, inventory management, and departmental policies, standards, and processes across the organization.
  • Manages departmental resources, budgets, and operational expenditures to ensure efficient allocation of resources and delivery of business value.

Who we are looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business, Operations Management, Logistics, or a related discipline.
  • Significant experience in supply chain, inventory management, planning, operations excellence, continuous improvement, or related functions.
  • Demonstrated experience leading and developing professional teams in a complex operational environment.
  • Strong understanding of inventory management principles, material planning, supply chain processes, and performance management systems.
  • Experience driving inventory optimization, working capital improvements, inventory accuracy programs, and inventory control governance.
  • Proven ability to lead continuous improvement and digital transformation initiatives.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with the ability to use data to drive performance.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and collaborate effectively across functional and organizational boundaries.
  • Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Experience managing KPIs and delivering measurable improvements in safety, service, cost, quality, inventory performance, and operational efficiency.
  • Lean, Six Sigma, or APICS/ASCM certification such as CPIM or CSCP is preferred.

What we offer

We aim to lead the way. Not just for our customers, but for our employees too. That is why we strive to create a collaborative environment in which we can all succeed, and a culture through which we can all share ideas, develop our expertise and advance our careers. As you would expect from a world-leading organisation, we will also reward your contribution with a competitive salary and benefits. With all this and more, imagine what you could do?

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About Umicore

Powering the cars of today and tomorrow. Reducing harmful emissions. Giving unique properties to high-end applications. Giving new life to used metals. As a global advanced materials and recycling group, we develop, produce, and recycle materials for a better life.

About Catalysis

Umicore is delivering the catalysis solutions for today and tomorrow. We reduce harmful emissions through advanced automotive catalysts, enable fuel cell driving and clean hydrogen with cutting-edge catalyst technologies, and support pharmaceutical production with innovative chemical catalysts.

We help customers meet strict environmental standards while improving both efficiency and performance.

To meet today's environmental and industrial challenges with ambitious thinking and a drive to innovate, we cannot stand still. This is where you come in.

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