Senior Manager, Supply Management

regalrexnord; Simi Valley (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Regal Rexnord is seeking a Senior Manager of Supply Management to lead PSI and CUU’s end-to-end supply strategy and execution. You will unify operating rhythms, strengthen supplier collaboration, and drive risk mitigation and cost optimization across both sites.

The role requires hands-on leadership, data-driven decision making, and the ability to scale processes, talent, and supplier capability to improve resilience and performance across procurement, planning, and quality teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and day-to-day supply management leadership across PSI and CUU, aligning priorities, standard work, metrics, and escalation paths.
• Build a cohesive cross-site operating rhythm that connects demand, purchasing, supplier commitments, production requirements, intercompany material flow, and customer priorities.
• Act as the senior supply-management escalation point for shortages, supplier constraints, late material, quality holds, outside processing, and cross-border flow issues.
• Balance immediate recovery actions with sustainable process improvements that strengthen both sites.
• Develop and execute sourcing and procurement strategies for raw materials, castings, machined components, outside processing, MRO, and other critical categories.
• Lead supplier selection, negotiation, contracting support, performance management, development, and risk mitigation in partnership with Strategic Sourcing and Quality.
• Establish clear supplier expectations and recovery plans for delivery, quality, lead time, capacity, responsiveness, and cost.
• Drive supplier OTD, past-due reduction, lead-time improvement, cost productivity, and continuity of supply.
• Ensure buyers and expeditors maintain accurate purchase-order dates, priorities, acknowledgments, and escalation records in the ERP system.
• Own supply execution required to support executable build plans, production schedules, shipment commitments, and revenue objectives at PSI and CUU.
• Improve the flow of purchased and intercompany material between CUU, PSI, outside processors, and other suppliers, including direct-purchase and direct-ship opportunities where appropriate.
• Coordinate with Planning and Operations to identify shortages early, establish recovery actions, and communicate business impact and trade-offs.
• Partner with Quality and Engineering to accelerate supplier corrective actions, receiving-quality disposition, rework, deviation, and qualification activities without compromising compliance.
• Develop contingency plans for sole-source, long-lead, constrained, and high-risk materials.
• Lead inventory optimization across raw material, purchased components, WIP interfaces, outside processing, and intercompany supply.
• Drive disciplined review of excess and obsolete inventory, safety stock, order quantities, lead times, purchase-price variance, and supplier stocking strategies.
• Partner with Finance and site leadership to improve inventory turns, reduce aged and inactive inventory, and maintain appropriate controls over material transactions.
• Establish governance for cycle-count findings, blocked or nonconforming material, and supplier-related inventory exposure.
• Establish a cross-site supply management scorecard and tiered review cadence covering delivery, shortages, past due, supplier quality, inventory, cost, and recovery actions.
• Use ERP data, dashboards, and structured problem solving to identify root causes, prioritize work, and improve decision speed and accountability.
• Lead kaizen events, value-stream analysis, process standardization, and digital improvements that simplify purchasing and material-flow processes.
• Support SIOP, annual operating planning, capacity reviews, and business reviews with clear supply assumptions, risks, scenarios, and actions.
• Ensure data integrity and consistent master-data practices related to suppliers, purchase orders, lead times, sourcing rules, and planning parameters.
• Lead, coach, and develop supply management team members supporting PSI and CUU, including buyers, expeditors, receiving or outside-processing interfaces, and other assigned res

Job description

Work Model

This is a fully onsite role, with work performed at your designated Regal Rexnord office.

Pay Range

Pay Range- 175k+ (DOE)

Several factors are considered when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role responsibilities, candidate's work experience, skills and education.

Position Summary

The Senior Manager, Supply Management leads the end-to-end supply management strategy and execution for PSI and CUU. This role is accountable for creating one integrated operating model across the two sites, strengthening purchasing and supplier-management processes, improving material flow, reducing supply risk, and ensuring the right material is available at the right time, quantity, quality, and total cost.

The position partners closely with site leadership, Materials and Planning, Operations, Quality, Engineering, Finance, Customer Service, and enterprise supply-chain resources. Success requires a hands-on, data-driven leader who can stabilize daily execution while building scalable processes, talent, supplier capability, and long-term supply resilience.

Key Accountabilities

PSI and CUU Supply Leadership

• Provide strategic and day-to-day supply management leadership across PSI and CUU, aligning priorities, standard work, metrics, and escalation paths.
• Build a cohesive cross-site operating rhythm that connects demand, purchasing, supplier commitments, production requirements, intercompany material flow, and customer priorities.
• Act as the senior supply-management escalation point for shortages, supplier constraints, late material, quality holds, outside processing, and cross-border flow issues.
• Balance immediate recovery actions with sustainable process improvements that strengthen both sites.

Sourcing, Procurement, and Supplier Performance

• Develop and execute sourcing and procurement strategies for raw materials, castings, machined components, outside processing, MRO, and other critical categories.
• Lead supplier selection, negotiation, contracting support, performance management, development, and risk mitigation in partnership with Strategic Sourcing and Quality.
• Establish clear supplier expectations and recovery plans for delivery, quality, lead time, capacity, responsiveness, and cost.
• Drive supplier OTD, past-due reduction, lead-time improvement, cost productivity, and continuity of supply.
• Ensure buyers and expeditors maintain accurate purchase-order dates, priorities, acknowledgments, and escalation records in the ERP system.

Material Availability and Cross-Site Flow

• Own supply execution required to support executable build plans, production schedules, shipment commitments, and revenue objectives at PSI and CUU.
• Improve the flow of purchased and intercompany material between CUU, PSI, outside processors, and other suppliers, including direct-purchase and direct-ship opportunities where appropriate.
• Coordinate with Planning and Operations to identify shortages early, establish recovery actions, and communicate business impact and trade-offs.
• Partner with Quality and Engineering to accelerate supplier corrective actions, receiving-quality disposition, rework, deviation, and qualification activities without compromising compliance.
• Develop contingency plans for sole-source, long-lead, constrained, and high-risk materials.

Inventory and Working Capital

• Lead inventory optimization across raw material, purchased components, WIP interfaces, outside processing, and intercompany supply.
• Drive disciplined review of excess and obsolete inventory, safety stock, order quantities, lead times, purchase-price variance, and supplier stocking strategies.
• Partner with Finance and site leadership to improve inventory turns, reduce aged and inactive inventory, and maintain appropriate controls over material transactions.
• Establish governance for cycle-count findings, blocked or nonconforming material, and supplier-related inventory exposure.

Operating System, Analytics, and Continuous Improvement

• Establish a cross-site supply management scorecard and tiered review cadence covering delivery, shortages, past due, supplier quality, inventory, cost, and recovery actions.
• Use ERP data, dashboards, and structured problem solving to identify root causes, prioritize work, and improve decision speed and accountability.
• Lead kaizen events, value-stream analysis, process standardization, and digital improvements that simplify purchasing and material-flow processes.
• Support SIOP, annual operating planning, capacity reviews, and business reviews with clear supply assumptions, risks, scenarios, and actions.
• Ensure data integrity and consistent master-data practices related to suppliers, purchase orders, lead times, sourcing rules, and planning parameters.

Leadership and Talent Development

• Lead, coach, and develop supply management team members supporting PSI and CUU, including buyers, expeditors, receiving or outside-processing interfaces, and other assigned res