Supply Chain Battery Manager

Our client, a Automotive Manufacturing company, is looking for a Supply Chain Battery Manager for their Warren, MI/ Hybrid location.

Responsibilities:

• Supply Chain Battery Manager supports CCA Allied Global Supply Chain by leading end-to-end supply chain strategy, planning, and execution for automotive replacement batteries and related components.
• Ensure the right batteries and related products are available at the right time and location for company's Customer Care and Aftersales customers, dealers, field requirements, and business objectives.
• Coordinate supply planning, procurement, supplier schedules, logistics, warehousing, quality, engineering, finance, commercial teams, and other stakeholders.
• Monitor and manage battery availability, SPAC, backorders, past-due shipments, capacity, quality, inventory, and premium-freight risks; prioritize issues by customer impact.
• Lead supplier follow-up, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, recovery plans, and escalation of risks until commitments are closed.
• Maintain forecasts, dashboards, action trackers, and leadership updates; support sourcing, bridge-buy, resourcing, and long-term supply decisions.
• This is a functional supply-chain leadership role requiring strong analytical judgment, supplier-management skills, urgency, cross-functional communication, and comfort operating with limited information
• Protect end-to-end availability of automotive replacement batteries and related components for CCA customers and dealers.
• Key work: battery demand and capacity planning, supplier performance and ship-plan management, SPAC/backorder/past-due reduction, inventory risk management, recovery actions, and cross-functional issue resolution.
• Review daily/weekly CCA and supplier performance data, including battery and drive unit availability, SPAC, backorders, past dues, ship plans, inventory, capacity, quality, and open actions.
• Prioritize the highest customer-impact exceptions and determine the required countermeasure, escalation, or premium-transport decision.
• Coordinate with buyers, suppliers, logistics, quality, engineering, inventory, finance, and commercial stakeholders to validate quantities, dates, constraints, and recovery plans.
• Lead or support supplier calls; document root cause, action owners, due dates, and progress to plan.
• Update dashboards, forecasts, risk trackers, and leadership/status communications; close the loop on commitments.

Requirements:

• Degree/certification: bachelor's degree preferred in supply chain, operations, business, engineering, logistics, or a related field.
• Experience: 3-5 years in supply chain, purchasing, supplier management, logistics, manufacturing, service parts, or a related analytical role.
• Technology: advanced Excel (Tables, data cleansing, charts, and reporting); experience with Power BI or comparable; ERP/SAP or supply-chain planning systems; Teams/SharePoint/Outlook; dashboard experience is preferred.
• Must be able to interpret supplier and inventory data, prioritize customer-impact risks, communicate with suppliers and senior stakeholders, and work with urgency and ambiguity.
• Top 3 skills:
• Supplier recovery & SPAC/BO management - 3+ yrs.
• Excel-based supply/inventory analytics - 3+ yrs.
• Cross-functional supply-chain execution - 3+ yrs.

Why Should You Apply?

• Health Benefits
• Referral Program

Excellent growth and advancement opportunities