Supplier Program Management 4\5
Provides technical and business guidance to integrate strategic supply chain activities. Leads stakeholder relationships and performance throughout all contract phases. Leads strategic supply chain activities to manage work with suppliers and programs. Conducts and guides supplier assessments. Develops current and projected work statement. Leads and establishes the basis for recovery, corrective and preventative action plans. Leads the development of company or business unit procurement strategies. Provides oversight, guidance and verification of work movement projects. Communicates supplier and organization performance plans risks, issues and opportunities to stakeholders. Manages work movement plans.
Competencies
General• Communication
Consistently clarifies purpose and importance; stresses major points; follows a logical sequence. Consistently keeps the audience thoroughly engaged through use of techniques such as analogies, illustrations, humor, an appealing style, body language, and voice inflection. Consistently frames even complex messages in line with audience experience, background, and expectations; uses terms, examples, and analogies that are meaningful to the audience. Consistently seeks input from audience; checks understanding; presents message in different ways to enhance understanding. Uses syntax, pace, volume, diction, and mechanics appropriate to the media being used; attends to both direct and indirect messages from others; correctly interprets messages and responds appropriately. Advises fellow project leads and other internal employees in effective communication techniques.
• Customer Focus
Makes customers and their needs a primary focus of one's actions as a project team leader; develops and sustains productive customer relationships as they relate to project team leadership responsibilities; actively seeks information to understand customers' circumstances, problems, expectations, and needs; presents project level information to customers to build their understanding of issues and capabilities; considers how project level actions or plans will affect customers; responds quickly to meet customer needs and resolve problems; assists other project team leaders in implementing ways to monitor and evaluate customer concerns, issues, and satisfaction and to anticipate customer needs.
• Decision Making
Consistently recognizes a wide range of complex, specialized issues, problems, or opportunities in own work group, across the organization and with external customers; determines whether action is needed. Steadily identifies the need for and collects information to better understand issues, problems, and opportunities. Regularly integrates complex information from a wide variety of sources; detects complex trends, associations, and cause-effect relationships. Consistently creates relevant options for addressing problems/opportunities and achieving desired outcomes. Formulates clear decision criteria; evaluates options by considering implications and consequences; chooses an effective option. Consistently implements decisions or initiates action within a reasonable time. Regularly includes fellow project leads, employees across the organization, and external customers in the decision-making process as warranted to obtain good information, make the most appropriate decisions, and ensure buy-in and understanding of the resulting decisions.
• Project Management
Extensive experience in creating comprehensive multi-tiered project schedules for significant Business Unit projects; identifies time frames for key project milestones and ensure alignment of sub tier activities for overall project visibility, tracking and completion. Directs and manages very complex project schedules requiring interfacing with multi regional or international activities. Independently identifies project resource requirements, integrate and direct multi project elements into a single collective overall project plan. Collaborates with others on the most complex projects assigned. Ability to direct, delegate and ensure performance of assigned responsibilities and tasks as a project team leader in support of the overall large scale and complex projects. Identifies and resolves any issues and provide solutions and or recommendations to ensure the successful completion of the project.
• Strategic Decision Making
Consistently identifies and fills gaps in information required to understand strategic issues. Organizes information and data to identify/explain major trends, problems, and causes; compares and combines information to identify underlying issues. Generates and considers extensive options for actions to achieve a long-range goal or vision; guides others in developing decision criteria considering factors such as cost, benefits, risks, and timing; selects the strategy most likely to succeed. Identifies the key tasks and resources needed to achieve objectives. Makes sure strategies are carried out; consistently monitors results and makes adjustments as needed.
Technical• Engr Knowledge & Comprehension
Basic - Extensive knowledge of various engineering disciplines such as electrical, mechanical, and systems. The ability to communicate with technical personnel from multiple skill areas and functions to evaluate technical information and issues impacting design, production, and support of products, services, or other deliverables.
Preferred - Advanced knowledge of various engineering disciplines such as electrical, mechanical, and systems. The ability to communicate with technical personnel from multiple skill areas and functions to evaluate technical information and issues impacting design, production, and support of products, services, or other deliverables.
• Risk Mgmt & Tech Ready Assess
Basic - Extensive working knowledge of the methodology and processes associated with risk, opportunity, and issues management. Ability to: select/recommend the best plan for mitigating risks, realizing opportunities, and resolving issues; establish appropriate performance tracking metrics to track status over time. Ability to effectively utilize risk, opportunity, and issue management tools (iso-risk charts/plots, waterfall, etc) to support program/project execution.
Preferred - Advanced working knowledge of the methodology and processes associated with risk, opportunity, and issues management. Ability to: mentor and coach less experienced personnel to apply risk, opportunity and issues management and performance measures, identify and quantity potential risks / opportunities / issues across multiple engineering disciplines, select/recommend the best plan for mitigating complex risks, realizing opportunities, and resolving issues, and establish appropriate performance tracking metrics to track status over time. Ability to effectively utilize risk, opportunity, and issue management tools (iso-risk charts/plots, waterfall, etc) to support program/project execution.
• Supplier Information
Basic - Extensive and specialized knowledge and ability to analyze and weigh the relative impact of broad range company/supplier information such as, financial data, market position, management capabilities, etc and identify and discern most material and probable outcome.
Preferred - Advanced/expert knowledge and ability to analyze and weigh the relative impact of broad range company/supplier information such as, financial data, market position, management capabilities, etc and identify and discern most material and probable outcome.
• Supplier Technical Oversight
Basic - Extensive, specialized knowledge of domain specific technologies applied to subcontract management (e.g., requirements, technical performance measures, schedules, budgets, performance metrics, data flow, coordinated communications, generation and negotiation of statements of work and specifications).
Preferred - Advanced, expert knowledge of domain specific technologies applied to subcontract management (e.g., requirements, technical performance measures, schedules, budgets, performance metrics, data flow, coordinated communications, generation and negotiation of statements of work and specifications).
• Supply Chain Strategy
Basic - Expert knowledge of supply chain strategies (e.g., inventory reduction, parts kitting, supplier consolidation, optimum flow, lead-time reduction).
Preferred - Advanced knowledge of supply chain strategies (e.g., inventory reduction, parts kitting, supplier consolidation, optimum flow, lead-time reduction).
Basic Qualifications For ConsiderationDo you have a minimum of 3 years experience working directly with suppliers regarding their processes and performance?
Do you meet the criteria described in the 'Typical Education / Experience' section of this requisition?
Are you willing to travel as required for this position?
Typical Education/Experience
Level 4 - Technical bachelor's degree and typically 9 or more years' related work experience or a Master's degree with typically 7 or more years' or a PhD degree with typically 4 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. A technical degree is defined as any four year degree, or greater, in a mathematic, scientific or information technology field of study. Level 5 - Technical bachelor's degree and typically 14 or more years' related work experience or a Master's degree with typically 12 or more years' or a PhD degree with typically 9 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. A technical degree is defined as any four year degree, or greater, in a mathematic, scientific or information technology field of study.
Other Job related information
Position, may require up to 40% travel.
- Business Unit Defense, Space&Security
- Division Boeing Military Aircraft
- Program Operating Executive
- Job Type Non-Management
- Experience Level Career/Experienced
- US Person Status Required? Yes
Closing Date: 02/29/2012
