Manager, Supply Chain - Strategic Sourcing (Aircraft Materials)

Company

Alaska Airlines

The Team

Guided by our purpose, core values, and leadership principles, we are creating an airline people love. Our corporate teams set the strategies and operational plans to ensure the success of our company. Whether we use our expertise in accounting, human resources, finance, planning, legal, marketing, or any of our operational divisions, our shared passion for travel and our guests is what motivates us to achieve excellence each day. If you share our passion for creating an airline people love, we want to hear from you. 

Role Specific Details

The Manager, Supply Chain Management, drives strategy and leads a team of supply chain professionals focused on all phases of strategic sourcing, contracting, and supplier performance management, as related to aircraft materials and material repairs.

Role Summary

This role is responsible for executing on the strategy including leading contracting and supplier oversight efforts at Alaska Air Group. The role requires significant, broadscale negotiation experience to deliver required business outcomes via best-in-class sourcing and contracting deliverables. As a people leader, the Manager Supply Chain leads and establishes priorities for the team to achieve company and division goals, including project assessment, strategy development, vendor management, supplier evaluation, and negotiation of terms to meet quality, cost and performance targets.

Key Duties

Sourcing

• Manages the sourcing process, including strategy development, supplier evaluation and selection, vendor management and negotiation of terms to meet quality, cost and performance objectives for assigned divisions / teams.
• Serves as the main point of contact for administering RFx’s and executing contracts for the division.Utilizes data and analysis to develop and manage cost models to accurately forecast costs and project the impact of sourcing outcomes.
• Maintains and deepens the relationship between Supply Chain and operations leadership to ensure results meet company and division targets.
• Leads the 5-phase sourcing process.

Supplier Oversight

• Builds and manages supplier relationships to achieve strategic objectives and contracted outcomes.
• Provides commercial oversight of key supplier relationships.
• Leads supplier business review meetings, performance improvement plans and dispute processes.
• Drives proper and effective communications between internal stakeholders and suppliers.

Contract Administration

• Coordinates with Legal and other stakeholders to develop and manage the contracting process, including drafting key commercial terms and conditions.
• Standardized contracting agreements across common products and services to improve consistency and improve the speed of contract throughput.
• Documents and communicates proper business practices to ensure awareness of and adherence to policies and internal controls.
• Drafts commercial contract language, leads negotiations on key terms and conditions, and liaises with legal department and other stakeholders to finalize agreements.
• Administers, navigates, and leverages the contract lifecycle management system to improve internal transparency of contracts, including tracking of milestones and key conditions.

General

• Participates in strategic and operational planning on behalf of Supply Chain.
• Champions ‘best practices’ to help business stakeholders review existing processes to meet changing needs.
• Develops and uses metrics to design, develop and implement oversight programs to monitor supplier performance.
• Identifies process improvements to reduce cost and increase performance and efficiency.

Job-Specific Experience, Education & Skills

Required

• 5 years of experience in negotiations, contract management, program management or related field.
• 2 years of leadership experience.
• Bachelor’s degree with a focus in business administration, supply chain, finance or related discipline, or an additional two years of relevant training/experience in lieu of this degree.
• Demonstrated use of strategic sourcing processes, including strategy development, RFP writing, and contract administration.
• Experience negotiating high-value and high-impact contracts required, specifically services-related agreements with Service Level Agreement components.
• Superior ability to present complex problems and situations to senior/executive leadership and to drive resolutions with limited guidance.
• Detail oriented and highly organized, with the ability to execute on multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines and work independen