Scope of Work
Assigned as lead for programs and leads spend category(s); complex program/spend/risk; requires little oversight from manager. Manages procurement of direct materials and strategic sourcing initiatives to support new product introduction. Requires knowledge of key supplier capabilities and matches the capabilities to new product design. Track and manage purchase orders, delivery commitments to support ramp up of new products. Work closely with strategic sourcing and engineering to ensure that the appropriate supplier strategy is implemented for new product release and production ramp.
Establish material requirements from engineering, new product build schedules and maintain appropriate inventory for production. Evaluates supplier capabilities and works with supplier engineering and strategic sourcing to develop new supply sources as needed. Monitors cost, capacity, and delivery schedule to ensure availability of material for production schedule.
Essential Job Duties
- Administers and manages purchase orders and delivery requirements to designated suppliers as necessary to support NPI and/or sales requirements within the business.
- Supports performance management and improvement efforts for designated suppliers, including coordinating supplier business reviews.
- Coordinates engineering change order activity with suppliers and other functional groups.
- Capacity: Identify potential supplier capacity issues and works in conjunction with strategic sourcing and supplier engineering to resolve these issues and ensure no impact to project schedule
- Cost: track purchase price variance. assist with cutover management planning, supporting identification of new cost reduction opportunities. Creates, updates and review product material cost models.
- Risk: support administration of SCRM tool to ensure accuracy of data and support specific risk mitigation projects
- Supplier Performance: supports preparation of scorecards and supplier business reviews.
- Manages quoting activity with suppliers to support supply chain optimizations.
- May support market research to find appropriate supplier(s) for various commodities and manufacturing processes.
Main areas of activity
- Leads complex programs from a total performance perspective, inclusive of supply chain strategy, cost, quality, inventory, capacity and risk management ownership. Some oversight from manager
- Creates program supply chain design strategy, identifies RFx opportunities; able to conduct analytics; negotiates and implements points; presents summary and implications to leadership
- Performs market research with limited oversight from manager, significant complexity
- Supplier Selection: Lead strategy, internal discussions, identification and implement decisions aligned with strategic sourcing for complex programs; creates recommendation, supports when leadership decision is required
- Program & Program reviews: Leads slide creation for assigned category; builds long-term vision for complex categories; presents effectively to leadership
- Leads identification of demand fluctuations, impact to capacity and supply amidst high complexity models and programs. Creates and implements action plans to resolve
- Contracting : Creates and secures contracts to contract plan part by program. Able to address most redline resolution independently using guidance document and experience; support from manager for complex situations; emerging capability to draft new or revised language
- Cost Negotiation & Savings: create & implement multiyear (year over year) cost plan, communication, cross functional collaboration
Qualifications
Required Education and Training
- Minimum BS degree or equivalent and 10+ years of purchasing and supply chain experience in a regulated industry manufacturing environment (medical device preferred).
- Significant computer experience including MS Office suites and ERP systems, preferably SAP and Agile, BOM structure.
