Sr. Supply Chain Manager

KULR Technology Group is a publicly traded company (NYSE: KULR) with a vibrant startup dynamic, headquartered in Webster, Texas. Our mission is developing energy management platforms to accelerate the global transition to a circular electrification economy. We create sustainable solutions that benefit humanity using space proven engineering, making the world of batteries and electronics cooler, lighter, and safer. We operate in four verticals: e-mobility, environmental/energy storage, industrial/consumer tools, and aerospace/defense. Our technologies have been deployed by NASA, including applications on the Space Station and Mars Rover.

Job Title: Senior Supply Chain Manager

FLSA Status: Exempt

Salary: $132,000 - $195,700

Reports to: CFO

KULR Technology Location: Webster, TX

Travel: Occasional travel required.

Position Overview:

The Senior Supply Chain Manager leads the strategy and execution for logistics, manufacturing, and distribution, purchasing and procurement for the company as well as inventory management of the supply chain. This role builds the necessary business infrastructures to ensure supply chain operations run smoothly and on schedule, advances production goals, communicates with vendors and distributors to ensure that the company can receive and ship products. This position builds forward-thinking relationships with suppliers to cut costs on incoming products and shipping, forecasting future demand and mitigating any complications that could arise.

Functions:

• Directs overall supply chain operations, including purchasing, inventory, selection of vendors, and distribution of finished goods.
• Develops and implements a strategy to ensure that critical processes run effectively and achieve organizational goals and performance KPIs.
• Negotiates with vendors to obtain optimal contracts and pricing.
• Utilizes data monitoring and analytics to evaluate past performance and trends and forecast inventory and distribution requirements.
• Interact with all vendors and work to maintain good relationships, trust, establish quality expectations and requirements, and communicate deadlines.
• Analyzes and reports key performance indicators and relays conclusions and improvement activities to management.
• Ensures compliance with company's disbursement policies including credit card use, expense reimbursements and invoicing, making necessary improvements to policies alongside Finance team.
• Other job-related duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities:This position will supervise multiple staff.

Supervisor duties to include:

Screens applications, interviews candidates, and recommends individuals for hiring.

Trains and assigns work to new and continuing employees.

Delegates tasks and provides effective direction to team members to produce substantial business results.

Independently conducts frequent performance feedback weekly, quarterly and annually, to include annual performance evaluations.

Makes recommendations for salary increases, merit increases and reclassifications.

In conjunction with HR, determines corrective action as needed for direct reports.

REQUIREMENTS

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in related field, required or equivalent combination of education and experience. Master's degree preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of related experience.
• Science, technology or math background preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs):

• Highly skilled in forecasting and inventory management with knowledge of lean inventory management practices.
• Highly skilled in and knowledgeable of best practices in Supply Chain Management, Planning, Cost Reduction and Optimization.
• Highly skilled in and knowledgeable of best practices in Vendor Management including Supplier Relationship Management and Supplier Negotiations.
• Highly skilled in determining appropriate Performance Metrics and reporting on team KPIs.
• Highly skilled in Strategic Planning and communication across departments.
• Demonstrated ability to manage distribution and logistics and direct logistics personnel.
• Knowledge and experience shipping hazardous materials and dangerous goods.
• Knowledge and experience with international shipments and related regulatory requirements.
• Demonstrates strong business, accounting and financial acumen, driving change and improvements at all levels of the organization.
• Strong understanding of business operations and processes.
• Demonstrated ability to influence others, build effective relationships with both internal and external stakeholders to accomplish business objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to assume personal accountability, address limitations, exhibits honesty and respect towards others, the company and oneself.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, assessing business needs and using problem solving skills to address challenges.
• Demonstrated ability to serve and actively contribute as an active team member on the immediate team and the larger organization. Ability to support the team effort without necessarily taking the lead.
• Able to generate new insights into situations and encourage innovation to generate successful outcomes. Creates, designs, and implements programs or processes.
• Ability to achieve measurable goals and results to support of organizational success.
• Ability to understand and analyze underlying organizational issues.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills to build effective relationships to achieve business results.
• Strong demonstrated written and verbal communication skills to work effectively with a wide range of individuals in a diverse community.
• Cooperative spirit within a team of diverse cultures while working in a fast-paced environment with multiple deadlines and frequently changing priorities.
• Intermediate use of computers and Microsoft Office Suite Applications such as Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook.

Physical Demands/Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here represent those an employee may encounter while performing this job's essential functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Office Work Environment

Sedentary work. Exerting up to 25 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and viewing a computer terminal. Sufficient clarity of speech and hearing or other communication capabilities, which permits the employee to communicate effectively on the telephone and in person. Sufficient manual dexterity with or without reasonable accommodation, which permits the employee to frequently operate a personal computer (estimated 80%-100% of the typical workday) and other office equipment. Sufficient personal mobility and physical reflexes, with or without reasonable accommodation, which permit the employee at a computer workstation for an extended period.

Special Conditions:

• Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a criminal background check.
• Must be able to work various hours and locations based on business needs.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen due to federal contract requirements.
• Successful applicant must meet ITAR requirements.

DISCLOSURE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

All job requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health and safety of themselves or others.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the incumbent of this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform other job-related duties requested by the supervisor in compliance with federal and state Laws.

Requirements are representative of minimum levels of knowledge, skills and/or abilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbent must possess the abilities or aptitudes to perform each duty proficiently.

No Agencies Please.