Job Description

Location: Approximately 30 minutes north of Pittsburgh

Ready to take ownership of planning and help a chemical manufacturing plant run more effectively? We’re seeking a Supply Chain Manager with strong SAP and reporting skills to connect customer demand, production schedules, materials, and inventory from forecast through delivery.

This is an opportunity to improve how teams work together, strengthen planning processes, and turn SAP data into decisions that keep production and customer orders on track.

What You’ll Do

• Generate and analyze SAP reports to monitor inventory, production requirements, and customer orders, identify planning gaps, and address delivery risks.
• Coordinate the monthly Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SIOP) process, aligning demand with production capacity, inventory targets, and purchasing needs.
• Partner with production, commercial, materials, logistics, and customer service to build and maintain an achievable plan.
• Improve production schedules to reduce waste and changeover time while making better use of available capacity.
• Oversee order fulfillment and third-party logistics, resolve delivery issues, and coordinate hazardous shipments in accordance with DOT and IATA requirements.
• Set inventory targets, address slow-moving and obsolete materials, and lead the annual physical inventory count and reconciliation.
• Maintain planning and production master data in SAP S/4HANA, including material records, bills of materials, and routings.
• Help teams resolve SAP transaction issues, simplify manual processes, and improve data accuracy.

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years of experience in supply chain, production planning, or materials management, with ownership of planning activities.
• Hands-on SAP experience is required, including generating reports and analyzing data to support planning, inventory, and order fulfillment decisions.
• Experience in batch chemical or related manufacturing, with an understanding of production scheduling, capacity, and material requirements.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to coordinate priorities across departments.
• Familiarity with SIOP or Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management or a related field.

Relevant manufacturing backgrounds may include specialty chemicals, coatings, adhesives, resins, plastics or rubber compounding, inks, lubricants, industrial cleaners, personal care products, and pharmaceutical manufacturing.