Supplier Development Project Manager
Open PositionLocation: Greer, SC USA
Reports To: Director of Supply Chain
Reports To: Director of Supply Chain
Scope Of Position
Responsible for providing project management leadership for the planning and execution of supplier developments and transitions with full responsibility for the results.
Responsible for results and on-time delivery on company or supply chain projects chartered for new suppliers and/or transitions.
Responsible for results and on-time delivery on company or supply chain projects chartered for new suppliers and/or transitions.
- Responsible for project planning, coordinating, and executing the project plan for the development and/or transition of suppliers.
- Integrate all functions of the projects into the Sales, Inventory, Operations Plan (SIOP) to ensure that projects are completed on time to meet production requirements.
- Creates a project structure including timelines, project plans, tasks, team responsibilities, and status reporting.
- Complete production readiness of suppliers to include capacity analysis, delivery rate and quality.
- Abilities to execute project resource planning including critical path analysis.
- Manage build ahead inventory and cutover plans.
- Develop and monitor appropriate project metrics to track costs, schedule, and quality performance. Monitors and evaluates the performance of the project and takes aggressive action when standards are not being met.
- Communicates effective and well-timed project status, risk mitigation plan, and other business critical information to relevant stakeholders including procurement, engineering, operations, and senior leadership.
- Communicates newly discovered issues quickly and effectively to plan investigations, mitigations, and communicate potential impacts, while leading the effort to eliminate or minimize impact.
- Manages multiple projects with full responsibility for project results evidenced by meeting requirements for delivery, costs, and quality.
- Facilitates communication including internal and external cross functional groups e.g. sales, engineering, operations, sourcing, and quality teams.
- Works with functional managers to ensure project is staffed appropriately and team members are accountable for assigned deliverables.
- Performs project risk and opportunity management.
- Performs budget and resource planning as well as generation of project charter and scope.
- Ensures completion of appropriate Project documentation in compliance with Vericor procedures.
- Bachelor’s Degree.
- Prior Project/Program Manager experience.
- Prior Supplier Project Management experience
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally 30% of the time.
- U.S. Citizen or permanent resident status.
- Project Manager Professional (PMP) certification.
- Experience with Gas Turbines engines and components.
- Demonstrated self-starter with ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
- Quick learner who is used to working proactively and independently.
- Encourages innovation and demonstrates out-of-the box thinking.
- Technical aptitude to understand project issues for the product and supplier and ability to support risk management for those issues.
- Strong customer satisfaction mindset with clear “can-do” attitude and ability to enhance internal/external customer relationships.
- Proven track record of completing assigned tasks on time without further follow-up.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Experience with project planning software, such as MS Project, Excel or similar tools.