Supervisor, Inventory Management

**Supervisor, Inventory Management
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**Who We Are**:
Welcome to Vale in Canada. As a leader in the mining industry, our responsibility is to positively impact our people, communities, and the environment. We value our workforce and offer continuous training and career development opportunities for our people.

With our global headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and approximately 125,000 employees in over 30 countries, Vale is constantly growing and changing. We invite you to be part of our evolution.

**The Opportunity**

We are currently seeking a **Supervisor, Inventory Management **to join our **Inbound Logistics **team in **Sudbury **. This is a **permanent **position.

This position is accountable for leadership of the Inventory Management Team Canada wide and all sites (Sudbury/Thompson/Long Harbour/Voisey’s Bay) Stockable MRO Inventory items. This roll must ensure stockable inventory is appropriately recorded, stored, and controlled at warehouses and stock keeping locations.

Reporting to this position is - between 6 to 8 minimum Inventory Analysts/material controllers from sites. The job leads in service excellence, implementing strategies to reduce costs, provides focus on inventory items identified as critical, and must maintain optimum stocking levels.

A key accountability is providing leadership to Inventory Management, and partnering with all stakeholders, to identify quantity and type of inventory required, management of critical vs. slow moving and obsolete, materials and management of inventory at strategically located sites to meet service requirements.

SLAs must be negotiated and managed with collaboration with the operations, and reports implemented to measure performance effectiveness, the supervisor must ensure inventory is controlled and delivered in accordance with expected SLA timelines.

Additionally, in this position you will:

- Ensure safe practices are followed - completely accountable for worker safety and ensuring for Zero Harm.
- Provide leadership to employees; administer grievances and ensure effective union management relations, critical for enhancing safety and uplifting service.
- Take ownership for all "shadow inventory" and converting this to "stockable". Partner with Operations to locate and identify all such inventory, act to properly record, and collaborate on strategic actions to ensure inventory is delivered according to specified SLA lead times.
- Assist warehouse supervisors with strategic plans to position inventory at remote Depot Sites and oversee resources that manage this inventory.
- Understand KPIs to measure service effectiveness and monitor data to determine remedial actions needed to uplift service.
- Take leadership in scheduling meetings with Operations stakeholders to keep them apprised of Inventory Management initiatives and performance, seek their input, and gain consensus on strategic actions that will optimize inventory performance and costs.
- Provide leadership to staff development, champion employee recognition, and be a role model for addressing corrective action.

**About You**

Education**:

- An Undergraduate Degree is required

**Experience**:

- 10 years of experience in a similar area

**Skills**:

- Extensive experience supervising
- Health and Safety expertise
- Strong Leadership and influencing skills
- Strategic experience with negotiating, collaboration, and gaining consensus
- Supply Chain background; strong comprehension of Sudbury Operations and Inventory Management.
- Strong Inventory process and control.

**How can Vale grow your career?**

Vale Canada offers a series of benefits including:

- Competitive salary
- Attractive pension and benefits (company paid core coverage, flex health and dental coverage, flex accounts, disability plans and optional insurances)
- Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation, flex, sick, top up for maternity/parental)
- Flexible work arrangements
- Work culture dedicated to safety, diversity & inclusion, and career growth
- Grow your career in a large and global company, and mining industry leader
- Employee Family Assistance Program
- Online training and career development opportunities

**Difference Makes All the Difference**

At Vale, we are committed to ensuring an inclusive work environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. Vale encourages everyone to express their ideas and opinions and values the plurality of individual profiles. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome - they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, or any other personal consideration that makes us different.

Vale is an equal opportunity employer seeking to increase diversity across our operations and improve equal opportunit