Warren, MI, US
Job Description:
Supply Chain Battery Manager supports CCA Allied Global Supply Chain by leading end-to-end supply chain strategy, planning, and execution for automotive replacement batteries and related components.
Ensure the right batteries and related products are available at the right time and location for OEM Customer Care and Aftersales customers, dealers, field requirements, and business objectives.
Coordinate supply planning, procurement, supplier schedules, logistics, warehousing, quality, engineering, finance, commercial teams, and other stakeholders.
Monitor and manage battery availability, SPAC, backorders, past-due shipments, capacity, quality, inventory, and premium-freight risks; prioritize issues by customer impact.
Lead supplier follow-up, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, recovery plans, and escalation of risks until commitments are closed.
Maintain forecasts, dashboards, action trackers, and leadership updates; support sourcing, bridge-buy, resourcing, and long-term supply decisions.
This is a functional supply-chain leadership role requiring strong analytical judgment, supplier-management skills, urgency, cross-functional communication, and comfort operating with limited information.
Business group: GSCP Allied Global Supply Chain / Customer Care and Aftersales (CCA).
Surrounding team: Allied supply chain, purchasing, logistics, inventory management, quality, engineering, finance, commercial partners, and suppliers.
Team purpose: protect end-to-end availability of automotive replacement batteries and related components for CCA customers and dealers.
Battery demand and capacity planning, supplier performance and ship-plan management, SPAC/backorder/past-due reduction, inventory risk management, recovery actions, and cross-functional issue resolution.
Reason for need: backfill to maintain continuity of battery supply-chain management and customer-support activities.
Degree/certification:
Bachelor's degree preferred in supply chain, operations, business, engineering, logistics, or a related field.
Experience:
3-5 years in supply chain, purchasing, supplier management, logistics, manufacturing, service parts, or a related analytical role.
Skills
advanced Excel (Tables, data cleansing, charts, and reporting); experience with Power BI or comparable; ERP/SAP or supply-chain planning systems; Teams/SharePoint/Outlook; dashboard experience is preferred.
Must be able to interpret supplier and inventory data, prioritize customer-impact risks, communicate with suppliers and senior stakeholders, and work with urgency and ambiguity.
Use of AI Technology:
Unless expressly authorized in the interview/skill set validation instructions, candidates may not use AI tools or other third-party assistance during an interview or assessment to generate or provide substantive answers to interview questions. Candidates should answer organically in their own words, drawing on their own knowledge, skills, and experience. Failure to adhere to these expectations may result in the candidate being removed from consideration.
