Plant Supply Chain Training & Compliance Lead

Maker's Pride; Carol Stream (IL); On-site; USD 97,000 - 146,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental plan

401(k)

Wellness program

Job summary

Maker's Pride seeks a Supply Chain Training Manager to build and sustain capability across its manufacturing network by owning training for manager-level roles and below at every plant.

The role partners with Plant Managers and Supply Chain Platform Directors to ensure consistency, capability, and operational excellence across service, inventory, materials management, and scheduling functions, with travel to plants.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive supply chain experience across planning, materials management, inventory control, order management, or plant supply chain operations
• Food or perishable manufacturing industry experience preferred
• An equivalent combination of relevant experience and education will be considered

Responsibilities

• Perform Tiered Audits on plant compliance to standard work and partner with plants on action plans to solve gaps across all plant-specific supply chain functions (service, inventory, materials management, finite scheduling, order management, and inventory control)
• Own training of supply chain manager-level and below roles at every plant, in collaboration with the Plant Manager and Supply Chain Platform Director
• Serve as a change agent for plant supply chain enterprise initiatives (best practices, technology enablement, etc.)
• Serve as a key member of the supply chain change agent network
• Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) for emerging local supply chain issues (coverage, customer disruptions, supply chain performance issues), with frequent travel to plants
• Establish, monitor, and report on key performance indicators tied to training completion, audit scores, and standard work adherence
• Lead root cause analysis on recurring compliance gaps and drive corrective actions in partnership with plant teams
• Champion continuous improvement of standard work training content, tools, and documentation to reflect evolving business needs and best practices

Skills

End-to-end supply chain

Training & coaching

Facilitation

Analytical thinking

SAP

Blue Yonder

Advanced Excel

Communication & stakeholder mgmt

Change management

Lean

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

SAP

Blue Yonder

Excel

Job description

Maker's Pride seeks a Supply Chain Training Manager to build and sustain capability across its manufacturing network by owning training for manager-level roles and below at every plant.

The role partners with Plant Managers and Supply Chain Platform Directors to ensure consistency, capability, and operational excellence across service, inventory, materials management, and scheduling functions, with travel to plants.