Manager Supply Chain

Job Summary

Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for quality, delivery, and cost of procured materials
• Manage a multi-discipline team
• Assist in the development of forecast/requirements for area of responsibility
• Assist in developing and implementing strategy for assigned area of responsibility
• Implement transition plans to new supplier
• Assist in creating Strategic Supplier Purchase Agreements
• Enforce company and department policies and procedures
• Monitor metrics and take action as appropriate
• Communicate and clarify departmental goals and metrics
• Responsible for ensuring monthly budgets are not exceeded; take action to realign to plan if budgets are exceeded
• Consolidate requisitions as much as possible to obtain leverage pricing 
• Review open requisitions weekly and meet with appropriate buyers on the open requisitions
• Review placement to requisition need date and length of time in purchasing
• Coordinate with Engineering and Quality on a team approach to supplier assessments and approval
• Advise planning, engineering and drafting of item master errors, updates, or omissions in relation to mil-specs or new or obsolete items
• Advise planning, engineering and contracts of changes in prices or lead times that make and produce cost-prohibitive or lead times detrimental to production cycles
• Expedite critical components to ensure on-time deliveries
• Be prepared to address any current or potential parts issues
• Look for creative ways to improve purchasing ability to make contributions to the company’s goals
• Improve understanding of purchasing relationship to the over-all company plans and strategy
• Research and analyze costing information for cost reduction
• Evaluate dispositioned discrepancy reports, signed off by program engineers and Q.C. engineers, and submitting information to both for re-evaluation
• Support, communicate and defend the mission, values and culture of the company

Job Responsibilities Part II

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, business, engineering or equivalent experience
• A minimum of 5 years demonstrated experience in high technology, aerospace or defense or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated knowledge of supply chain management tools and procedures
• Demonstrated management skills, particularly “influence management” and “conflict resolution”
• Experience throughout the product lifecycle from New Product Introduction through obsolescence to include:  generation of system and subsystem statements of work and subcontracts, strategic supplier selection, risk management, and continuous improvement efforts including implementation for cost reduction and performance improvement efforts
• Experience in finance, contracting, export regulations, engineering, logistics, manufacturing and DoD, ITAR, EAR, FAR, DFAR regulations
• Demonstrated negotiation skills
• Strong customer interface skills
• Demonstrated problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated success in managing manpower planning, program reviews, scheduling and budget control
• Must have a successful track record in managing complex aerospace/defense supply chain activities