Supply Chain Manager

January 24

🏄 California – Remote

Although this job is listed in California, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $100k - $130k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔗 Supply Chain

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Apex Wheels

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Apex Wheels is a company specializing in aftermarket wheels and automotive accessories. They offer a variety of products including wheels, spacers, center caps, TPMS & valve stems, and centering rings. Apex Wheels provides resources such as vehicle fitment guides and customer support to enhance the performance of vehicles. They also offer a wholesale dealer portal and encourage prospective dealers to join the network. The company emphasizes real performance and offers a replacement program, along with extensive customer support services.

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2007

📋 Description

• Do vendor negotiations give you a thrill? Do you love leading a team of passionate supply chain professionals? Do you happen to be a car enthusiast who wants to help bring some really cool motorsport parts to market? If so, then keep reading because Apex is seeking an experienced, confident, and proactive Supply Chain Manager. • Apex is a leading provider of high-performance automotive wheels and accessories, catering to the motorsport and performance car enthusiast community. We have a strong vision for the future, a powerful narrative about our products, and an enthusiastic team to execute our plans. We’ve been in business for over 17 years and our team of 40+ staff are spread out remotely across the USA. • Take ownership of our supply chain operations, and achieve department goals to ensure there is a continuous flow of quality products that are on time and in the right quantities. This department needs an experienced manager that can provide support and guidance to our demand planning and purchasing staff while taking full ownership of the relationship and negotiations with each of our suppliers. Your success will be measured by how well our vendors perform, what concessions you can get out of them, and how successful you are at reducing quality control issues, delays, and price increases. • Reporting to the CFO, you’ll have a small but growing team under you, requiring you to get your hands dirty and lead others. Our Purchasing Manager will continue handling forecasting and inventory responsibilities while our incoming Purchasing Coordinator will be responsible for handling purchase orders, tracking shipments, and providing assistance. • This role will work remotely from your home anywhere in the contiguous USA, with a few trips a year to our Pleasanton, CA headquarters and a few trips overseas to visit vendors along with our engineering team. • You’ll be leading the relationships with our suppliers. Your tactful relationship management skills will help find a good balance between celebrating wins and addressing areas of opportunity with our existing vendors, overall ensuring a positive and long-lasting relationship. You need to anticipate their mistakes, implement safeguards and penalties, and hold them accountable. They love to surprise us with new and unique issues. It will require consistent and proactive communication, organization and follow-up to keep our overseas suppliers on track and in check. We only work with a few key suppliers so your negotiation skills and contract experience will be used to set new rules and standards and negotiate through problems so we aren’t stuck eating the costs of their mistakes. • Although our suppliers speak and write English, it’s their second language. You’ll need to get your point across in just a few concise emails and through daily check-ins to ensure there are no misunderstandings. You need strong project management skills so you can keep the status of various deliverables organized, prioritized, and on time. Completing your tasks and projects will depend on others getting back to you, so you must also be comfortable checking in often with other departments and keeping colleagues and vendors accountable for the commitments they’ve made. • You will also be responsible for elevating the team that handles inventory planning and purchasing. Our team has a basic process for forecasting demand and submitting purchase orders, Your experience needs to bring our team up to the next level so we can successfully reduce inventory on hand while keeping popular inventory in stock. We have underutilized tools that need to be reconsidered and inventory management practices that warrant evaluation. For quality control issues you’ll need to work with our engineering and customer service teams to find the root cause, adapt and get the factory to implement solutions. • Our existing team has held down the fort, now we need someone to take our processes, practices, and people to the next level. As a leader, you’ll mentor and develop our newly reorganized procurement team, fostering a positive work environment rooted in Radical Candor. By setting clear expectations, providing constructive feedback, and driving operational excellence, you’ll play a key role in delivering exceptional products to our customers. If you’re ready to lead with confidence and make an impact, we’d love to hear from you.

🎯 Requirements

• A bachelors degree in Supply Chain Management, Materials Management, Business or another relevant area is highly preferred. • APICS certification is required. • 5+ years experience in purchasing, production and manufacturing with significant responsibilities related to vendor management. • 3+ years experience working with overseas contract manufacturers is preferred. • 5+ years in direct end-to-end people management - from hiring to termination and everything in between. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. • Detail-oriented and a proclivity towards analytical and critical thinking. • Proficiency in ERP systems (such as Netsuite). • Proficiency in BlueRidge or another forecasting software suite. • Slack, Gmail experience preferred. • Mandarin as a second language is a plus. • Project Management experience and the use of PM software is a plus (Click-Up).

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-time position $100K - 130K depending on experience. • Employee Medical, dental and vision benefits. • Spouse and dependent Medical benefits. • 401k with employer matching. • Vacation and Holiday pay. • Fully remote telecommuting is supported from anywhere in the contiguous USA. • Support your track addiction with reimbursements for HPDE and autocross event registration fees. • Casual in-office dress environment where T-shirts, jeans, and shorts are welcome. • Get employee discounts and freebies on Apex products and schwag. • Participate in company activities including karting, spectating at races, track days, and more.