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Supply Chain Leader

BH Job ID: 4841

SF Job Req ID: 19843

Ingersoll Rand is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Job Title: Supply Chain Leader

Location: Southern Pines, NC

About Us

Imagine a company with technology leadership of over 160 years, yet it operates with the energy of a startup. Ingersoll Rand has dedicated itself to Making Life Better for its employees, customers, shareholders, and planets. We produce innovative and mission-critical flow creation and life science technologies - from compressors to precision handling of liquids, gasses, and powers - to increase industrial productivity, efficiency, and sustainability. Supported by over 80+ brands, our products are used in various end-markets including life sciences, food and beverage, clean energy, industrial manufacturing, infrastructure, and more. Across the globe, we're driving growth with an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset. Learn more at irco.com and join us to own your future.

Job Overview:

Are you a supply chain leader who enjoys owning the full picture-people, materials, suppliers, schedules, inventory, and customer delivery? This role offers the opportunity to lead a buyer/planner/scheduler team supporting a defined value stream within the Southern Pines manufacturing operation. You'll have the autonomy to run your portion of the business, partner closely with operations and supply chain peers, and directly impact on-time shipment, inventory performance, supplier accountability, and production execution. The Supply Chain Leader will own supply chain activities for a defined value stream/product family, ensuring customer demand is supported with the right material at the right time while balancing inventory and operational priorities. You'll lead a team of buyers, planners, and schedulers responsible for material availability, production scheduling, supplier follow-up, inventory management, and customer shipment commitments.

This is a highly visible, hands-on leadership role working across supply chain, manufacturing operations, suppliers, and business-unit stakeholders to keep production moving, reduce past-due backlog, improve on-time shipment, and strengthen inventory and supplier performance. The ideal candidate will bring strong buying, planning, scheduling, or materials experience within a manufacturing environment-preferably assembly-based-with exposure to bills of material, ERP systems, supplier constraints, production schedules, and customer delivery requirements. Experience with the company's specific ERP system is not required, but you should understand how ERP supports plant supply chain operations and be comfortable using data, Excel, and disciplined follow-up to drive results. Success will also require strong communication, organization, follow-through, and the ability to build effective relationships with direct reports and cross-functional partners.

For a supply chain professional seeking autonomy, team leadership, and visible impact, this is an opportunity to strengthen performance and drive meaningful improvement within an established business.

Responsibilities:

Production Planning & Scheduling:

• Translate the monthly SIOP consensus plan by product family into a detailed weekly Master Production Schedule (MPS) with a 12-18-month planning horizon in the ERP for weekly MRP generation.
• Maintain the material plan within the time fence to ensure continuity of supply.
• Identify and resolve capacity, resource, and material constraints.
• Facilitate long-term capacity assessments (RCCP) and develop countermeasure/action plans.
• Conduct lead-time analysis, measure gaps against published lead times, drive corrective actions, and update published lead times as needed.
• Coordinate with planners to achieve assigned serviceability and inventory goals.
• Interface with required functional groups to resolve challenging delivery requirements.

ERP / MRP Management & Data Integrity:

• Monitor and drive resolution of MRP processing errors.
• Manage ERP-generated exception messages in a timely manner.
• Serve as the factory subject matter expert (SME) for ERP production planning and scheduling modules within the assigned business unit.
• Maintain the integrity of ERP planning parameters, including lead times, lot sizes, safety stock, delivery times, and order file data for all master-scheduled items.
• Maintain item master lead-time information based on process improvements, current constraints, total demand by product family, and priority requirements.

Supplier Management & Material Availability:

• Engage with suppliers to secure inventory flow needed to support plant shipment goals.
• Communicate forecasts and replenishment plans to suppliers.
• Review open requirements, monitor supplier performance, and expedite deliveries as needed.
• Expedite deliveries to meet or exceed critical schedule requirements.
• Ensure supplier issues related to delivery, quality, or pricing are communicated and resolved promptly.
• Coordinate with Quality Assurance to resolve supplier quality issues.
• Resolve invoicing discrepancies with suppliers and Accounting.
• Develop effective methods for monitoring supplier agreements that support future cost savings and inventory goals.

Customer Delivery & Service Support:

• Support Customer Service with exception-request analysis and expediting resolution.
• Help drive delivery performance, reduce supply disruptions, and support customer shipment commitments.
• Apply root-cause problem solving to resolve supply disruptions and achieve inventory targets.

Reporting & Performance Management:

• Create and publish daily, weekly, and monthly reports covering factory schedule adherence, capacity, and inventory.
• Analyze and report key performance indicators, including delivery performance, backlog, performance to master schedule, and inventory turns.
• Maintain productivity pipelines and financial records used to report and track improvement initiatives.

Continuous Improvement & Cost Productivity:

• Drive continuous process improvement and identify opportunities to increase efficiency.
• Challenge existing processes when more effective alternatives are available.
• Identify and implement cost-reduction and productivity projects aligned with corporate initiatives and goals.

Team Leadership & Development:

• Develop, coach, and mentor team members to achieve outstanding results.
• Lead and direct others as needed to accomplish organizational objectives.

Project & Cross-Functional Support: Manage projects and perform other duties as needed.

Requirements:

• BS/BA degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or a related discipline preferred; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• 5+ years of manufacturing supply chain experience, including materials management, buying, planning, production control, master scheduling, inventory, and customer delivery support.
• 3+ years supporting material availability, production schedules, MRP/ERP-driven planning, inventory performance, customer demand, and plant shipment targets.
• 3+ years working directly with suppliers to manage material availability, delivery performance, follow-up, issue resolution, and accountability.
• 2+ years leading, coaching, mentoring, or providing day-to-day direction to buyers, planners, schedulers, materials, or other supply chain team members.
• Strong working knowledge of ERP/MRP systems and proficiency with Microsoft Excel required.

Core Competencies

• Decision-Making & Prioritization: Able to make sound, complex decisions with limited time and information, using business priorities to establish clear decision criteria.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Builds effective partnerships across functions and works successfully with internal teams, external resources, suppliers, and business partners.
• Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills: Strong analytical capability with the ability to evaluate data, identify root causes, and independently resolve problems; working knowledge of basic statistical analysis techniques.
• Leadership & Influence: Proven ability to lead, influence, and manage competing requirements while effectively guiding discussions with peers, matrix partners, operational teams, and leadership.
• Communication & Interpersonal Effectiveness: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to lead productive discussions, challenge perspectives, and drive alignment.
• Organization & Follow-Through: Demonstrated ability to stay organized, manage competing priorities, follow up consistently, work cross-functionally, and drive actions through completion.
• Data Analysis & Reporting: Proficient in accessing, manipulating, and analyzing data using Microsoft Excel and other available reporting tools.
• ERP Systems Knowledge: Working knowledge of ERP systems and their application within planning, materials, and manufacturing operations.

Preferences:

• Demonstrated success improving on-time delivery, customer service levels, inventory performance, and/or past-due backlog.
• Experience working with bills of material (BOMs) within a manufacturing supply chain environment.
• Machining and castings experience.
• Experience with QAD and/or Oracle ERP systems.
• Experience within rate-based, flow-line, non-MRP, and/or job shop manufacturing environments.
• Experience with lean manufacturing practices and visual management systems.
• Experience supporting new product introductions and/or value stream/product family supply chain activities.

Travel and Work Arrangements

• CPIM certification
• Minimal travel (<10%), primarily to suppliers as needed.
• Required PPE includes safety glasses, hearing protection, steel-toe shoes, and gloves when handling parts.
• Office and manufacturing environment with occasional exposure to moving equipment and permissible levels of coolant/oil mist. Moderate noise levels.

What We Offer

At Ingersoll Rand, we embrace a culture of personal ownership - taking responsibility for our company, our communities, and our environment, as well as our individual health and well-being. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to empower you with the tools and support necessary to take charge of your health, ensuring that together, we can continue to make life better. Our range of benefits includes health care options like medical and prescription plans, dental and vision coverage, as well as wellness programs. Additionally, we provide life insurance, a robust 401(k) plan, paid time off, and even an employee stock grant, among other offerings. These benefits are our commitment to you, so you can be your best at work and beyond.

Ingersoll Rand Inc. (NYSE:IR), driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset, is dedicated to helping make life better for our employees, customers and communities. Customers lean on us for our technology-driven excellence in mission-critical flow creation and industrial solutions across 40+ respected brands where our products and services excel in the most complex and harsh conditions. Our employees develop customers for life through their daily commitment to expertise, productivity and efficiency. For more information, visit www.IRCO.com.

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What we Offer

At Ingersoll Rand, we embrace a culture of personal ownership - taking responsibility for our company, our communities, and our environment, as well as our individual health and well-being. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to empower you with the tools and support necessary to take charge of your health, ensuring that together, we can continue to make life better. Our range of benefits includes health care options like medical and prescription plans, dental and vision coverage, as well as wellness programs. Additionally, we provide life insurance, a robust 401(k) plan, paid time off, and even an employee stock grant, among other offerings. These benefits are our commitment to you, so you can be your best at work and beyond.