Senior Specialist, Supply Chain Management (23621)
Senior Specialist, Supply Chain Management (23621)
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Job Title: Senior Specialist Supply Chain Management
Job Code: 23621
Job Location: Lynchburg VA
Job Schedule: 9/80;Employees work 9 out of every 14 days totaling 80 hours worked and have every other Friday off
Job Description:
Supply Chain Professional with strong project and time management skills; ability to lead and influence cross functional teams analyze supplier performance identify potential risks and implement mitigation strategies; create and lead industrial capability and capacity assessments; lead supplier Kaizen events to influence change; conduct supplier business reviews and manage supplier relationships ensuring continuity of supply and quality of product
Essential Functions:
- Ability to travel up to 50%
- Develop and implement supplier sourcing strategies through supplier assessments and rationalization
- Identifying key areas of expertise needed for a specific project and sourcing
- Manage supplier relationships with effective communication to suppliers while leading business reviews
- Manage analyze take appropriate actions and create risk mitigation strategies from Supplier performance
- Conduct onsite supplier performance improvements / Kaizen events and industrial capability and capacity assessments
- Support the Business Unit on supply shortages with appropriate escalation
- Develop and maintain supply opportunities through e.g. Design to Value initiatives low cost sourcing
- Partner with team members on negotiations (for best total cost of ownership make vs. buy analyses inventory reduction programs security of supply data analysis) and develop negotiation strategy (approach fallback positions acceptable terms and conditions contracts) through to closure.
- Establish a strong network and foster collaboration with sector/segment teams suppliers key stakeholders and category team members.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree and minimum 6 years prior related experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
- Prior Purchasing Category Management or Project Management experience.
Preferred Additional Skills:
- Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook Excel Word Project and PowerPoint
- Category knowledge in Cables Connectors Antennas and Batteries
- Experience in leading Kaizen events industrial capability and capacity assessments
- Technical Background
- Supplier or Customer interactions (internal or external)
- Excels in a team environment developing relationships and sharing knowledge
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
