Global Supply Chain Director

About Wellbore Integrity Solutions

Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Wellbore Integrity Solutions (WIS) operates globally in the oilfield services sector, and provides customers with a suite of products, applications, and services on ensuring well integrity throughout the life of the well. We employ more than 1,300 people working across six continents in over 25 countries.

If you are looking for an opportunity to build your career in an exciting and inspiring entrepreneurial environment, where your contributions are valued, and you can have a global impact, then come and grow with WIS! We value our relationships with our employees and are committed to creating a high-performance culture that fosters healthy relationships among a diverse team of talented individuals.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

1. Strategic Planning, Sourcing/Operations Execution

- Develop and execute short and long-term strategies to optimize supply chain efficiency.

- Create multi-year roadmap of strategic initiatives, continuous improvement, and supplier development programs.

- Own and analyze the master financial reporting of business supplier costs, operational performance, and inventory management; identify opportunities for continuous improvement, value-add/value-engineering projects and other cost savings projects.

- Use knowledge/expertise to manage operations, cost drivers, changing supply base, and market innovation to capture lower costs and/or high value alternatives to meet stakeholder needs.

- Establish relationships with functional and regional leaders to ensure operational and sourcing strategies align with our business goals and objectives. Collaborate on the smooth implementation of product changes, and operational execution.

- Collaborate with Operations, Engineering and Quality teams to ensure customer needs are met and develop and maintain quarterly supplier scorecard system.

- Create sustainable and consistent processes for strategic sourcing initiatives, Operational improvements, RFQ/P, and commodity management.

- Regularly adapt sourcing strategies in relation to market trends and business requirements to enhance effectiveness.

- Develop and own strategic matrix of suppliers to identify risks, gaps and opportunities in supply chain, including the development of new suppliers, dual/multi-source strategy, management of sole sourced suppliers when required, and exit strategies for suppliers that don’t meet supplier standards.

- Support operations and product development to ensure contingencies and buy/make/partners are appropriately evaluated and identified.

- Assess the supply market, our current and future state to develop sourcing strategies and risk mitigation; includes monitoring tariffs to proactively manage impact on business.

- Support and influence New Technology Development programs in a cross functional setting with product management, engineering, manufacturing, and quality to identify emerging technologies and potential suppliers.

- Own results for key performance metrics and the annual budget.

- Acquire a deep understanding of the supply markets that provide material, products, or services.

- Identify and aggregate technical, commercial, risk, opportunity, and demand requirement for contract negotiation. Lead negotiation and execution of key agreements.

- Lead the development and execute the Supplier Management strategy and including Supplier Relationship Management, Performance Management, Issue Resolution, and the identification/ onboarding of new suppliers. Utilize formal processes for supplier selection, qualification, contracting and management.

2. Logistics Coordination: Oversee the movement of goods from production facilities to distribution centers and ultimately to end-users.

3. Continuous Improvement

- Work closely with long term suppliers to manage core supply base for productivity/cost down initiatives through the use of VA/VE tools.

- Actively optimize the company’s production capabilities by driving a continuous improvement process to measure current performance, identify opportunities, develop plans and effect change to improve results

- Manage footprint rationalization program

- Champion and drive total cost of ownership (TCO) reductions.

4. Management/Leadership

- Attract, retain, motivate and develop high performing, diverse teams.

- Drive positive employee engagement.

- Provide effective and appropriate communication to all employees to ensure timely and consistent information; this includes facilitating regular All Employee and skip level meetings.

- Provide monthly report to the HQ and regional leadership team highlighting progress against initiatives, employee feedback and operations.

- Set and communicate standards of performance and appraise employee performance.

- Drive completion of employee training initiatives.

- Ensure that changes to policies, procedures and standards are communicated and implemented accordingly, including site safety procedures.

Minimum Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, or related field.

- Five (5) years of Supply Chain management and strategic sourcing experience in a global environment.

- Five (5) years of formal leadership/people management experience.

- Proven track record in driving productivity and value add through continuous improvement, negotiations and supplier management.

- Strong understanding of global supply chains, logistics, and continuous improvement.

- Sound knowledge of operational processes, including production planning, scheduling, inventory management, and quality control.

- Experience in outsourcing, contract management and supplier management.

- Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate and collaborate across organizational levels (production employees, engineering, sales, leadership).

- Strong leadership and team building skills with proven ability to motivate and inspire others to achieve outstanding results.

- Experienced negotiator with excellent supplier management skills.

- Ability to be both strategic and tactical.

- Demonstrated ability to work with multi-disciplinary teams.

- Strong organizational, collaboration, written and verbal communication skills.

- Ability to prioritize tasks, manage multiple projects simultaneously, and meet deadlines.

- Strong organizational, written and verbal communication skills.

- Must be available for short notice international and domestic travel

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

- 10+ years of Supply Chain management experience in the Oil and Gas industry.

- Master of Science in Supply Chain Management

- ASCM, APICS, PMI or ISM certification

- Understand principles of accounting and finance.

- Demonstrated experience in supplier qualification and management.

- ERP experience.

- Trade and regulatory compliance experience.

- Authorized to work in the US without sponsorship.

- Ability to travel to countries where WIS operates.

Salary & Benefits

WIS deeply values fair and equitable wages that enable our employees and their families to thrive. As such, we offer a competitive salary that rewards you for the hard-earned education and experience you bring to the role and increases as you continue to grow and develop.

We also prioritize rewarding our employees with benefits that reflect how much we value their contributions. Join us, and you can expect an extensive and generous benefits package, including health insurance, vacation pay based on years of relevant experience not tenure with the company, sick pay, paid holidays, a 401(k)-retirement plan with a 4% employer matching, on-site gym and locker rooms, free parking, and other key benefits.

Diversity, Inclusion, and Equal Opportunity

We believe that diversity is critical to our mission, and we value an inclusive culture. We strongly encourage applications from people with lived experiences related to our programs and applications from people of color, persons with disabilities, women, and LGBTQ+ individuals. WIS is an equal opportunity employer; we do not discriminate in employment based on race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, gender or gender identity, age, or sexual orientation.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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