Director, SCM,Coated Steel Belt and Wire Rope

Date Posted:

2026-11-09

Country:

China

Location:

LOC3344: 7-8/F, Building N1, Fusion New Bund, No. 8, Lane 131, New Bund Avenue, Pudong, Shanghai, China

Position Summary

The Director, Coated Steel Belt and Wire Rope, is the global supply chain leader responsible for defining and executing the end-to-end sourcing strategy for coated steel belts and wire ropes globally across all lines of business.

This role will integrate requirements across New Equipment, Modernization, and Service, translating business, engineering, quality, regulatory, and regional needs into one coordinated global supply strategy and roadmap. The Director will lead the introduction of new belt and rope designs, qualification of new suppliers and manufacturing locations, management of legacy products, and development of a resilient, competitive global supply base.

The position will operate at the intersection of Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, Operations, Service, Modernization, Legal, Product Management, and the regional businesses.

Key Responsibilities

• Global Sourcing Strategy
• Develop, own, and execute the global sourcing strategy and multi-year roadmap for coated steel belts, and wire ropes. Ensure alignment across key functional and regional stakeholders in engineering, quality, operations, finance and product management.
• Establish a single global view of supply chain requirements across New Equipment, Modernization, and Service.
• Align supplier strategy and roadmap, regional market needs, installed-base obligations, code requirements, cost objectives, and supply-risk priorities.
• Ensure supply chain strategy considers total lifecycle requirements, including original installation, modernization compatibility, field replacement, and long-term service availability.
• Ensure supplier agreements clearly define responsibility for manufacturing defects, design changes, traceability, field failures, corrective actions, and warranty duration.
• Partner with Legal and Engineering to assess intellectual-property constraints and freedom-to-operate considerations for new cord, coating, belt, and rope technologies.
• New Supplier and Source Development
• Own the global supplier-development pipeline for belts, cords, wire ropes, raw materials, and value-added operations.
• Establish a consistent process for supplier scouting, technical assessment, commercial evaluation, qualification, and approval.
• Ensure commercial commitments and volume allocations remain synchronized with technical qualification and deployment readiness.
• Protect proprietary product and process knowledge through appropriate technical-information controls and contractual safeguards.
• Supply Resilience and Localization
• Develop and maintain a global risk map for belts, cords, and wire ropes by product, supplier, manufacturing location, and region.
• Reduce single-source exposure and establish credible contingency plans for critical products.
• Lead regional localization assessments as needed, including North America, China, India, and other strategic markets.
• Evaluate localization at both finished-product and upstream-material levels.
• Incorporate tariffs, trade restrictions, geopolitical risk, transportation exposure, currency movements, and regional certification requirements into sourcing decisions.
• Define minimum qualification and capacity requirements before reducing or exiting incumbent suppliers.
• Maintain transition plans that protect production continuity and field-service availability.
• Commercial and Value-Creation Leadership
• Own the global value-creation roadmap for the category in partnership with Engineering and Finance.
• Establish product-level clean-sheet cost models for belts, cords, wire ropes, raw materials, and manufacturing conversion.
• Balance purchase-price improvement with lifecycle cost, system cost, qualification expense, capital investment, quality risk, and resilience.
• Develop business cases for new designs, supplier introductions, localization, and product conversions.
• Track approved savings through deployment and realized financial performance.
• Use global volume leverage while avoiding excessive dependency on any supplier or manufacturing region.
• Ensure supplier agreements contain appropriate provisions for productivity, capacity, investment, intellectual property, warranty, quality, continuity, and product support.

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