Regional Supply Base Lead - High-Travel, Supplier Performance

Creation Technologies; Utah; On-site; USD 140,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k plan

Health insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Creation Technologies seeks a Supply Base Manager to lead regional supplier performance and escalation, ensuring delivery reliability and quality for regional units under the global strategy. You will serve as the primary escalation point for shortages, decommits, and capacity constraints, driving recovery plans and supplier development.

Role requires travel up to 60% and alignment with defense, medical, and tech industry requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations, Business, Engineering, Quality, or a related discipline preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Supply Chain, Materials Management, Procurement, Supplier Management, Operations, Quality, Engineering, or a related manufacturing environment.
• Experience should include supplier performance management, escalation, MRP planning, purchasing, inventory management, shortage recovery, supplier quality, or manufacturing operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead supplier performance management activities, including supplier scorecards, business reviews, corrective action follow-up, and performance trend analysis for the regional and local suppliers in scope in alignment with global commodity management strategy and performance analysis processes.
• Serve as the lead escalation point for critical material shortages, supplier decommits, supplier responsiveness issues, capacity constraints, and supplier quality disruptions that impact Creation's ability to support customer requirements.
• Coordinate cross-functional escalation teams across Supply Chain, Planning, Procurement, Quality, Engineering, Operations, Sourcing, Program Management, and site leadership to resolve supplier issues. Support supplier audits, factory visits, process reviews, and operational assessments.
• Develop and manage supplier recovery plans for high-risk suppliers, including clear action owners, commitment dates, updated delivery schedules, escalation paths, and communication cadence.
• Build positive relationships with specific regional and local suppliers while maintaining clear accountability for commitments, delivery recovery, corrective actions, and performance improvement.
• Help align regional and local supplier performance processes, escalation playbooks, scorecard methodology, factory visit expectations, and recovery reporting with current global processes and procedures.
• Visit supplier locations as needed for escalations, audits, factory reviews, shortage recovery, and supplier development. Travel is expected to exceed 50% depending on business needs.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Skills

Supplier management

Escalation process

Cross-functional leadership

MRP planning

Inventory management

Quality knowledge

Executive updates

Lean/Continuous improvement

SIOP process

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management or related

Tools

Kinaxis/Rapid Response

Oracle ERP

Job description

Creation Technologies seeks a Supply Base Manager to lead regional supplier performance and escalation, ensuring delivery reliability and quality for regional units under the global strategy. You will serve as the primary escalation point for shortages, decommits, and capacity constraints, driving recovery plans and supplier development.

Role requires travel up to 60% and alignment with defense, medical, and tech industry requirements.