Supply Chain Associate

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🌲 Oregon – Remote

🌲 Oregon – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🟡 Mid-level

🔗 Supply Chain

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MEI

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1985

🏭 Manufacturing

🔧 Hardware

🤝 B2B

Manufacturing • Hardware • B2B

MEI is a Italy-based manufacturer and global market leader in edging machines for eyeglass lenses. Founded in the early 1990s and driven by a focus on innovation and customer needs, MEI develops and manufactures robust, reliable edging equipment using its proprietary dry cut technology to enable blockless edging. The company produces a range of edgers of different sizes and throughputs for customers from independent optical shops to large industrial lens labs, and provides global service and spare-parts support from offices in the USA (Chicago and Los Angeles), Hong Kong and São Paulo. Specialities include optical manufacturing, lens edging, optical innovation, and lens production; all edgers are manufactured in Italy.

📋 Description

• The Supply Chain Associate supports MEI’s strategic supply-chain programs for key customers, working at the intersection of operations, systems, and customer coordination. • This role serves as a central point of coordination across customers, suppliers, MEI regional teams, and corporate functions to ensure seamless execution from order intake through transportation, storage, delivery, and equipment setting. • Act as the central communication and coordination hub for several large, strategic customer programs. • Work directly with customers, their suppliers, and MEI regional teams to ensure smooth end-to-end execution across transportation, storage, delivery, and equipment setting. • Build and maintain strong external relationships, serving as a trusted liaison between customers, suppliers, and internal teams to anticipate needs, surface risks, and drive timely resolution. • Provide proactive visibility to all stakeholders through regular updates, dashboards, and escalation protocols – ensuring transparency and eliminating surprises across the supply chain. • Support monthly invoicing and reconciliation processes in partnership with Finance and regional teams, ensuring billing accuracy and alignment with customer records. • Lead the preparation of customer-facing materials for QBRs, MBRs, and scorecards, synthesizing operational performance data and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement. • Document current-state supply chain workflows across MEI’s national network, working with regional teams to capture real operating practices and identify gaps or inconsistencies. • Support the development and rollout of standardized processes, playbooks, and operating procedures that improve consistency, scalability, and execution quality. • Partner closely with IT, Integrations, and Operations teams to design, test, and deploy enhancements to MEI’s Warehouse Management System (WMS) and Transportation Management System (TMS). • Analyze operational and financial data related to storage, transportation, and handling activities to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities. • Support development of dashboards and reporting tools that provide actionable insights to customers, regional leaders, and corporate stakeholders. • Assist with root-cause analysis of service issues and support implementation of corrective actions in partnerships with Operations and regional teams. • Support supply chain related initiatives tied to network expansion, new customer programs, or operational readiness for growth. • Partner with Operations, Finance, IT, and real estate teams to support data collection, analysis, and execution planning for supply-chain enablement efforts. • Prepare clear, structured materials for internal leadership reviews related to supply chain performance, capacity, and scalability.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, Logistics, Operations, Industrial Engineering, Business, Finance, or a related field. Equivalent practical experience may be considered. • Two (2) to four (4) years’ professional experience in logistics, operations, consulting, program management, or a related analytical / operational role. • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and professionally with customers, suppliers, and internal teams. • Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel. • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously, prioritize effectively, and follow through on execution. • Possess an ownership mindset and ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment. • Eager to develop deep operational expertise while working directly with strategic customers. • Supply Chain certifications are a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Work with a Top-of-Mind Awareness for the safety of yourself and everyone at the job site. • Must be able to work in a high functioning team environment. • Display the highest levels of honesty, integrity, and professionalism. • Take pride in your work and in the company. • Communicate openly and strive for peak performance in daily tasks. • Know and deliver the quality service MEI’s customers have come to expect.