Supply Chain Project Manager

Position Purpose:

This position is a Functional Project Manager in the area of Sourcing. The Functional Project Manager is accountable for the planning directing and execution of local and/or global projects. The Functional Project Manager is responsible to direct the project team to achieve project deliverables including contractual and business objectives while ensuring satisfaction and QDRC.

Essential Functions:

• Tactical Responsibility: Coordinate/lead multiple projects of med-high complexity multiple sub-projects and/or cross location

• Strategic Responsibility: Presents and represents project status to customer and Woodward managers

• Strategic Responsibility: Participates in enterprise trade-offs between projects

• Strategic Responsibility: Provide mentoring and consultation to lower level project managers

• Strategic Responsibility: Participate in strategic planning/profit planning processes

• Strategic Responsibility: Accountable for scope change management: responsible to orchestrate with the accountable leaders and team to be responsive to customers project schedule and deliverables

• Strategic Responsibility: Evaluate and implement continuous improvement. May include authoring documents and standards

• Tactical Responsibility: Lead and present project updates for management reviews provide written updates and status reports

• Tactical Responsibility: Drives risk management process

• Tactical Responsibility: Drives schedule performance to meet commitment dates

• Tactical Responsibility: Plans reviews and improves project cost

• Tactical Responsibility: Drives total cost of ownership processes

• Tactical Responsibility: Project resource management

• Tactical Responsibility: Manages across business and departments outside of specific functional area to break down barriers that may prevent project success

• Strategic Responsibility: Coordinates project activity with appropriate leaders team members and customers

Other Essential Functions:

• Evaluate and drive implementation and maintenance of appropriate project management tools

• May also provide support in other business activities

• In Sourcing may perform: Coordinates with Supplier Manager to act as the primary point of contact for the project

• In Sourcing may perform: Accountable for Global Sourcing Part Transition process compliance through 109

• In Sourcing may perform: Assure supplier development inventory transition planning contractual alignment (POs and LTA)

• In Sourcing may perform: Leverage all Global Sourcing groups to minimize total investment

• In Sourcing may perform: Participate in commodity strategy development

• In Sourcing may perform: Collaborate with engineering and the COE to assure security of supply high quality competitively priced components

• In Sourcing may perform: Lead project gate reviews

• In Sourcing may perform: Provide support and assist in supplier approval process

Knowledge Skills & Abilities:

• Good knowledge of project management tools (specifically MS Project Work Breakdown Structure).

• Proficient understanding of Woodwards Key business processes and metrics

• In Sourcing: Good knowledge and demonstrated execution of the part transition process

• In Sourcing: Good knowledge of strategic sourcing principles supplier relationship management and commercial management

• In Sourcing: Knowledge and experience with core global sourcing business processes and systems

Education:

• US Masters degree in Arts/Sciences (MA/MS)

• US Bachelors Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS)

Experience:

• Experience in specific functional area (Quality Sourcing Manufacturing)

• Project Management

License & Certifications:

• PMP (Project Management Professional) certification or international equivalent

• For Manufacturing/Sourcing: Six Sigma Green Belt certification

• For Quality: Achieve and maintain Six Sigma Green Belt certification