Job Title: Operational Supplier Coordinator
Location: Wilton, CT
Employment: Contract (7 months)
Industry: Semiconductor equipment
Compensation: $ 52.90 - $58.18 /hour
Schedule: 40 hours /week
About the Opportunity:
- As an Operational Supplier Coordinator (OSC), your main focus is to secure and assure material availability to the factories and the field and resolve shortages.
- You are the first point of contact for Inbound Supply Chain Management towards our suppliers and internal customers.
- Job Mission As an Operational Supplier Coordinator you contribute a reliable, responsive and robust
Why You'll Love Working Here:
- Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability
- Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries
- People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work
- Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates
Why This Opportunity is Exciting:
- This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.
About Acara Solutions
- Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.
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What You'll Do:
- Global Supply Chain Network delivering the right materials, at the right moment, the right quantity and quality against the lowest integral costs to the factory and the field.
- Minimizing inventory costs Maximizing re-use Balancing stakeholders Performing supply investigations Supporting move rate assessments
- Optimizing part replenishment strategies (de-coupling, logistical engineering, buffer management) Train suppliers.
- As an Operational Supplier Coordinator, you manage the short term Materials Availability Performance of your suppliers.
- You make sure that your suppliers deliver and execute according to existing agreements.
- Your responsibilities and activities will be First point of contact for Inbound Supply Chain Management towards our suppliers and internal customers.
- Secure and assure Materials Availability to the factories and the field by continuously monitoring and following up agreements and performance indicators with the supplier.
- Resolving possible stagnations and issues.
- Pro-active Supply Management of a portfolio of parts by understanding and clarifying sources and potential impact of demand changes, throughout the supply chain.
- You are able to translate trends at supplier into concrete actions targeting weak spots (e.g. supply investigations, optimizing replenishment strategies, logistical engineering).
- Participation in (supplier) improvement projects together with the Logistic Supplier Manager and Quality Supplier Manager and driving operational improvement plans with suppliers.
- Coaching and training of suppliers to increase the maturity level and correct use of cient designed systems, portals, processes, procedures, tools and techniques Process improvements by applying LEAN methodologies like 4C/A3 problem solving techniques and participation in (complex) projects on department level.
- Analysis and reporting on Materials Availability, while understanding the Materials Requirements Planning logic and dependencies with other processes and departments in the supply chain.
- Regularly updating key interfaces on status, progress, impact and performance.
- Stress Resistant Tracking, Reporting & Analytics Is able to measure and report on the gaps in the operational planning activIties.
- Highlights the potential risks and is able to influence the key stakeholders based upon data.
- Stakeholder Management Actively maintains relationships on management level, understanding different stakeholder perspectives.
- Advises management on the risks/opportunities in making operational planning decisions.
- Is able to convince & motivate stakeholders on management level to trigger changes and improvements.
- Operational planning systems and tooling Understands and works with established operational planning systems to achieve business objectives.
- Reports issues, ideas or suggestions for enhancement of existing tools and methods and drives improvements.
- Is able to identify and gather the relevant data inputs in a complex environment to improve the planning parameters.
- Continuous Improvement Solves problems in a structured way using problem solving methods and coaches' others in doing the same.
- Standardizes own department scope.
- Leads medium sized projects (A3 lean methology) and contributes to larger projects/API led by others.
What You'll Bring:
- Bachelor Degree in Logistics or Supply Chain Management
- 7+ years of experience in Logistics processes, Supply Chain and flows within scope of department, Planning systems (e.g. MRP).
- 7+ years of experience in logistics / supply chain management
- 7+ years of experience in planning, Inbound Supply Chain Management processes and quality in a high-tech, low-volume environment
- 7+ years of experience in planning (ERP) systems, preferably SAP
- 7+ years of experience in complex work environment with multiple stakeholders
- 7+ years of experience in driving material planning
- 7+ years of experience in supply chain processes in production environment
What Sets You Apart:
- Master Degree in Logistics or Supply Chain Management
- Personal skills Team player Process oriented Excellent communication skills
- Pro-active attitude, drive to continuously seek for improvements
- Strong time and priority management skills
- Strong analytical skills
- Ability to initiate, influence and steer without formal authority Can do mentality, positive critical Flexible, result driven and committed, ability to deal with resistance and organizational changes
- Relationship builder
Additional Information:
- Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check
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Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.
Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.
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Jun 03, 2026