Supplier Performance Manager

The primary purpose of your role is to enhance the operational performances of applicable suppliers, ensuring supplier punctuality on deliveries and supplier quality aligning with John Crane specifications. You will manage the operational performances for selected suppliers in close collaboration with Category Management, Engineering, Services, and Quality teams. Your responsibilities will include initiating improvement plans for selected suppliers, managing, controlling, and reporting on suppliers" performance against Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), conducting change management at suppliers for long-term improvement, influencing suppliers on innovation & strategy orientations vis a vis John Crane, and coaching supplier organizations on the implementation of best-in-class supply chain & quality processes. You will be operationally driving action and improvement plan implementation at suppliers, creating conditions of success to enhance the operational development with selected suppliers, improving Supplier performance classification, and being accountable for a pool of suppliers for which John Crane requires an improvement in their performance. Your role will involve measuring, monitoring, and improving the performance of assigned suppliers to meet the needs of John Crane. To be successful in this role, you should have 5 - 10 years of relative experience, the ability to solve problems using methodologies such as 8D, PDCA (Plan Do Check Act), Ishikawa, 5 Whys, a working knowledge of Lean Manufacturing principles, fundamental project management skills, the ability to input to and take data from an S&OP process (Sales and Operations Planning), Production Plans, Manufacturing Resource Planning, workload evaluations, and effective communication and collaboration skills. Join us for a fulfilling career with competitive compensation and benefits as you contribute to engineering a better future.,