Sr Director Supply Chain (Finance)
Overview
Sr. Director - Operations Supply Chain & Industrialization Strategy Program Manager
Location: Milwaukee, WI
ENERPAC - Who we are?
Enerpac Tool Group is a premier industrial tools and services company serving a broad and diverse set of customers in more than 25 countries. The Company's businesses are global leaders in high pressure hydraulic tools, controlled force products and solutions for precise positioning of heavy loads that help customers safely and reliably tackle some of the most challenging jobs around the world. The Company was founded in 1910 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Enerpac Tool Group trades on the NYSE under the symbol "EPAC". Our vision is to be our customer's preferred partner through relentless innovation of industrial tools and services that help them safely and reliably tackle their toughest jobs around the world. For further information on Enerpac Tool Group and its businesses, visit the Company's website at https://www.enerpactoolgroup.com/.
Brief Overview
The Sr. Director - Operations Supply Chain & Industrialization Strategy Program Manager plays a critical leadership role in ensuring the successful launch of new products by developing and executing cross-functional supply chain and industrialization strategies. This position leads the alignment of operational footprint, make/buy decisions, and sourcing strategies across Engineering, Sourcing, Operations, and Quality teams to support NPD/NPI initiatives. Operating at a strategic level, the role is responsible for driving scalable processes, managing complex program workflows, and ensuring timely, cost-effective, and sustainable supply chain solutions aligned with corporate goals. Reporting in a matrix structure to both Operations Supply Chain and Innovation leadership, this role is instrumental in translating business case inputs into executable operational strategies.
Key Accountabilities
- Acts as the operations and supply chain lead for NPD programs, aligning cross-functional stakeholders to ensure timely and successful execution.
- Partners with Engineering, Product Management, Quality, and Operations to align product and market requirements with supply chain and manufacturing strategies.
- Collaborates with Procurement, Category Management, and Supplier Quality to ensure seamless supplier selection, qualification, contracting, and quality standards for new programs.
- Drives make/buy and production footprint decisions based on business case inputs, in coordination with product, engineering, and supply chain leadership.
- Ensures comprehensive analysis of total cost of ownership, sustainability, and long-term viability in global make/buy decisions.
- Aligns supply chain plans with global and regional category strategies; manages execution through a cross-functional supply team.
- Develops and maintains supply chain timelines to ensure sourcing, purchasing, and delivery milestones meet program objectives.
- Identifies and mitigates supply chain risks through proactive analysis and development of contingency strategies with business partners.
- Links supply strategy to project budgets and profitability goals, guiding sourcing, stocking, and purchasing decisions accordingly.
- Communicates program status clearly to stakeholders; escalates critical issues promptly with actionable solutions.
- Exhibits strong program management discipline and leadership to drive complex initiatives to completion.
Job Requirements
- BS in Operations/Supply Chain Management, Business, or Industrial Engineering. MBA and / or PMP certification are a plus
- Minimum 15 years of proven, progressive operations and supply chain experience in an industrial, mixed-mode, manufacturing environment.
⦁ Must demonstrate the ability to lead through influence.
⦁ Experience with large scale project management across multiple functional teams, operations life cycle, in depth analysis and problem solving.
⦁ Proficient with project management tools and methods to manage activities across supply chain and other functions.
⦁ Preferred candidate will be a change agent and promote continued development of the evolving supply chain function
⦁ Working knowledge of manufacturing processes like machining, metal cutting, hydraulics, plastic injection molding, metal fabrication, electronics and assembly. Experience with low volume, high mix manufacturing processes is a plus.
⦁ Proven ability to identify problems quickly, make sound judgments, establish and implement solutions
⦁ Ability to read technical drawings/blueprints, purchasing specifications, bill of materials is a plus
⦁ Demonstrates ability to work against deadlines to support company goals
⦁ Experience in Supply Chain and Business Application Systems (Oracle ERP systems is a plus)
⦁ Effective time management, planning and organization skills; ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities and drive tasks to completion in a fixed time-frame and in a pressured environment
⦁ Ability to deal with ambiguities, conflicts, and adversarial relationships
- Familiar with a variety of manufacturing concepts, practices, procedures.
- Ability to lead and direct the work of others.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
- Computer Skills: Microsoft Project, Office, SharePoint, Oracle or other ERP system
- Analytical skills to convert general data into actionable and insightful information to influence business planning and success.
- Effective skill set in managing systems and processes to measure, monitor, manage and impact performance. Improves processes and builds scalability.
- Knowledge of lean tools and mindset to drive for continuous improvement
- A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
- Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
- Up to 25% Domestic and International travel is required for this position.
