Sr. Mgr., TC Supplier Performance Mgmt

Sr. Mgr., TC Supplier Performance Mgmt

What we do

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Role reports to:

US Market Deliver Hub

Location:

North America, United States, New Jersey, Summit

Work Location:

Hybrid

What you will do

The Senior Manager, Trade Customization – Supplier & Performance Management provides enterprise leadership for supplier relationship management, governance, and performance management. This role serves as the Business Process Owner (BPO) for Trade Customization, partnering with peer managers and senior leaders to define standards, governance, and continuous improvement priorities across promotional, club, and customized execution.

This role is accountable for ensuring consistent performance, transparency, and compliance across co-located and external co-packing sites, and for advancing Trade Customization’s performance management capabilities through robust analytics, dashboards, and digital tools. The Senior Manager leads through influence, balancing strategic oversight with operational discipline, and will have people leadership responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

Supplier Relationship Management & Network Performance Governance

• Owns supplier and co-packing site performance frameworks including service, quality, cycle time, cost, and compliance.
• Establishes governance routines such as scorecards, corrective action processes, and quarterly business reviews.
• Partners with Procurement, Quality, and Operations to manage performance risk and drive improvement.
• Oversee strategic vendor and packaging network relationships, capacity strategy, and long-term cost optimizsation initiatives.

Business Process Ownership & Continuous Improvement

• Serves as Business Process Owner for end-to-end Trade Customization processes.

• Leads cross-functional process improvement initiatives focused on simplification, cycle time reduction, and standardization.

Performance Management Analytics & Digital Enablement

• Owns Trade Customization dashboards, scorecards, and KPI frameworks.
• Sets analytics priorities and ensures insights support decision-making.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Acts as subject matter expert for Trade Customization performance and governance.

• Provides insights, risk assessments, and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Partners with IT and Analytics teams to enhance automation and data quality.

Team Leadership

• Leads and develops a small team focused on supplier performance and analytics.

• Drives capability building, role clarity, and development planning.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or related field.
• 8-10+ years of progressive experience in supply chain operations, supplier management, or process excellence.
• Strong financial, analytical, communications, and business acumen with demonstrated impact on cost, inventory, and service.

Preferred

• Experience as a Business Process Owner.
• Advanced SAP and analytics tool experience.
• Knowledge of operations execution and supplier management.

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What’s in it for you

$153,850.00 - $217,200.00

This takes into account a number of factors including work location, the candidate’s skills, experience, education level & other job-related factors.

Kenvue is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment based on merit without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.