Company and Position Description
Vitro Automotive Glass produces advanced glass products for the world's most well-known automotive manufacturers. We work collaboratively with our customers to ensure that our glass provides the safety, comfort, and efficiency required for today's modern vehicles.
Vitro Automotive Glass operates glass manufacturing plants, fabrication facilities, and distribution centers worldwide, focusing solely on automotive glass production. This scale enables us to provide the quality and technology needed for large-volume OEM production, while maintaining the same attention to detail and quality in our automotive replacement glass (ARG) operations.
As the automotive industry rapidly evolves, Vitro stays ahead to help automakers, distributors, and installers meet changing standards for safety, efficiency, and sustainability. We are committed to not just meeting specifications but also working collaboratively to deliver the future of automotive glass.
Responsibilities
Establish and lead a Sales and Operations Planning process engaging all organizational functions to provide a forward-looking view of capacity utilization, sourcing, demand management, process development, inventory, and operational issues to support strategic initiatives.Ensure synchronization across business segments (Manufacturing, ARG, OEM) from a planning perspective, optimizing manufacturing capacity to meet demand plans.Make clear, data-driven decisions, applying good judgment when data is incomplete. Be self-directed, decisive, and able to set direction quickly.Implement best practices within manufacturing plants and materials management departments to improve performance, leading and empowering teams to develop solutions.Work with all organizational levels and functions, performing detailed financial analyses and presenting complex data clearly to executive leadership with recommended solutions.Implement world-class materials management practices across manufacturing locations, tracking KPIs to meet business objectives.Maintain capacity and sourcing plans that optimize asset utilization and minimize costs, considering operational dynamics like labor contracts and capital projects.Manage total inventories, establish KPI targets, forecast, and react to deviations to balance working capital and service levels while minimizing obsolescence.Develop and maintain materials management policies for the aftermarket business, using forecasting and supply planning tools.Create capacity plans in collaboration with commercial and marketing teams for short, medium, and long-term planning.Align development plans for managers with strategic objectives, fostering accountability and focus.Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in science, math, or supply chain discipline required; Master's preferred.Minimum five years in Supply Chain or Operations Planning management.At least five years managing multiple projects or programs simultaneously.Experience with glass fabrication is preferred.APICS certification is preferred.Additional Details
- Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
- Employment type: Full-time
- Job function: Management and Manufacturing
- Industry: Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing
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