Help shape the future of transportation for cities, colleges and companies by working for the nation's leading bike share company. Zagster is a fast-growing startup backed by leading transportation investors and based in Cambridge, MA with a mission to make bicycling the world's most loved form of transportation.
We’ve recently raised $10 million in Series B funding and operate more than 200 bike sharing programs, with clients such as Princeton University, Fort Collins Colorado, General Motors and Equity Properties.

Overview:

The new role of Director of Supply Chain Management been created to build out our supplier ecosystem and develop our long-term supplier strategy. The ideal candidate has significant experience managing relationships with suppliers in the US and Asia, negotiating favorable terms, and mitigating risk across our supplier base.

Responsibilities

• Lead supplier management and working cross-functionally on high level demand and supply planning strategy
• Negotiate favorable contracts, including cost, lead time and purchase order terms and conditions, and ensure contract compliance
• Conduct quarterly business reviews and hold suppliers to key metrics
• Own overall relationship and supplier performance
• Work strategically with suppliers to continuously improve the customer experience through operational improvements
• Develop and manage daily, weekly and quarterly supply plans to meet quarterly financial revenue plans, while achieving aggressive order cycle time goals and minimizing liability.
• Work directly with suppliers and manage supplier production forecast, execution and performance to plan
• Coordinate with Sales and Finance teams to report on product availability, set launch quantities and to ensure smooth product transitions
• Partner with entire supply chain team to determine and execute optimal supply chain for all product shipments, incorporating both cost and customer service metrics.
• Present product status updates on a regular basis to key stakeholders
• Manage members of the Supply Chain team
• Specify tools and processes needed to support the business

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in supply chain and/or supplier management
• You have a degree in a technical field, such as engineering, business, or supply chain; MBA preferred
• Significant experience growing supply chain function within startup or growth environment, with success in implementing processes and systems
• Experience working within ERP systems and optimizing tools to track assets
• Senior presence; able to clearly and consistently work side-by-side with a broad range of seniority and functions to achieve objectives
• Superb relationship management skills
• You are comfortable and confident making decisions and recommendations grounded in data
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment that embraces change
• You have a bias towards action, results-focused and detail-oriented
• You possess excellent verbal and written communication skills