Supervisor, Supply Chain
Kaiser Permanente
- Location
- Antioch, CA, Onsite, Full-time, Day
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Mid
About this role
Job Summary
Supervises team applying best standards and practices in Supply Chain and Logistics and monitors team compliance to relevant guidelines. Manages the resolution of inventory, asset, and vendor/suppliers deficiencies. Implements recommendations suggested to streamline current systems to optimize, maintain, and transform current processes, and oversees the creation of research plans to streamline new/existing business operating models according to supply chain future state. Manages the audits of suppliers, conducts corrective actions based on interpreting needs identified from audits, and facilitates business reviews. Facilitates strategic decisions making based on results on utilization, quality, inventory levels, and courier routes for projects, while assessing customer satisfaction levels.
Essential Responsibilities
Recommends developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; provides team members with feedback; and mentors and coaches to drive performance improvement. Pursues professional growth; provides training and development to talent for growth opportunities; supports execution of performance management guidelines and expectations . Implements, adapts, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices and processes. Fosters open dialogue, supports, mentors, engages, and motivates team members on collaboration . Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance and scope. Supervises and coordinates daily activities of designated work team or unit by monitoring the execution and completion of tactical action items and work assignments; ensures all policies and procedures are followed. Aligns team efforts and standards, and measures progress in achieving results; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; resolves escalated issues as appropriate. Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates, obtains and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and recommends improvement opportunities; influences teams to execute in alignment with operational objectives. Ensures asset accounting by: guiding and providing support, when needed, for the asset approval (e.g., vehicles, medical equipment), transfer, and disposal processes; supervising the dispositions in the accounting system; supervising the compliance with policies and procedures that achieve accountability by proposing strategies for cost reduction for the misuse of assets; and maintaining an ongoing process to identify, evaluate, and implement cost restructuring and cost reductions. Ensures ongoing quality customer services by: supervising the resolution of customer issues pertaining to vendors/suppliers reporting, billing, and merchandise while building and managing relationships with key customer; coordinating the resolution of backorder problems, delivery delays, repairs, designing route changes, customer concerns, and returns; supervising product returns and recalls; and reviewing reports (e.g., key metrics, cost and daily analysis) for customers. Ensures adequate levels of inventory are maintained by: supervising the resolution of the receipt and distribution of inventory, and developing processes for the transactions and requests for supplies, equipment, and services; reviewing results from quantitative/qualitative analyses to forecast demand to minimize obsolescence or expiration; widely applying strategies for maintaining automated inventory and ordering systems to support inventory reconciliation and supervising routine inventory counts; confirming a wide range of complex reorder levels are updated, maintained, and adhered to so that proper product rotation remains valid, and inventory levels are accurate; and working collaboratively with contacts internal and external to the organization to maintain the inventory