.At Gentherm, we say, "It's about the person." We're with you on a cold winter day when you turn on your heated seat and steering wheel or helping manage patient body temperature in the operating room, recovery room, or intensive care units. We take a human approach with everything we do.As the global market leader of innovative thermal management and pneumatic comfort technologies for the automotive industry, we embrace the opportunity to create and deliver extraordinary solutions that make meaningful differences in everyday life. We do this by improving health, wellness, comfort, and energy efficiency.We embrace an entrepreneurial spirit and combine that with our global leadership to deliver results. Working at Gentherm provides you the opportunity to not only shape the future of the automotive and medical industries but also influence your career throughout the company. You will be engaged, challenged, and inspired by our team to deliver leading thermal technologies that positively impact lives around the world.Director Supply Chain - North AmericaIMPACT and OPPORTUNITYLead regional activities for the extended Supply Chain including Logistics to create a coherent strategy, develop standard processes, and drive continuous improvement towards world-class performance. Optimize the total cost of ownership (including but not limited to inventory, planning, freight, duty, warehousing, etc.), resolve global supply chain issues, lead SIOP process within the region, improve customer service and demand planning, improve supplier performance, and supply planning, and drive continuous improvement. This position will lead, mentor, and coach the Supply Chain Managers and Logistics warehouses in best practices to improve key performance indicators for production plan adherence, on-time delivery, freight, and inventory management.ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIESDevelop a harmonized and highly competitive Supply Chain built on end-to-end value stream orientation, lean principles, and total cost of ownership.Define a coherent regional Supply Chain strategy including Logistics to achieve breakthrough improvements.Develop and lead the Sales, Inventory, and Operational Planning (SIOP) process to drive attainment of delivery, revenue, inventory, freight and duty, and other performance targets.Monitor regional supply planning and forecasting of demand to ensure resource requirements are met.Manage supply of critical materials to all regional locations to ensure supply through accurate, real-time inventory management and continuous inbound and outbound tracking.Maintain accurate forecast models for inventory based upon incoming receipts and outbound shipments.Ensure all suppliers are compliant with local, regional, and international regulatory and import/export requirements.Manage Supply Chain throughout the entire product life cycle to prevent obsolete inventory from engineering changes and the End of Production life cycle