Sr. Supplier Management Specialist

Are you looking to advance your career and flex your project management and supply chain skills in a rewarding industry, join our team! As a Sr Supplier Management Specialist, you'll plan and implement activities related to the timely, cost-effective procurement, inventory control, planning and quality control of production materials. You'll ensure the availability of materials from supply chain, as scheduled. You may lead a matrixed supplier management team in managing and facilitating assigned supply chain's program execution and identify, mitigate and resolve risks/issues, as well as facilitating supply chain's performance of government contracts in a supply chain management team environment. You'll partner with the Program Office, Engineering, Operations and Business Management in developing and establishing target prices and schedules for assigned suppliers and then execute within that plan. Within constructs of the execution plan, you'll guide a matrixed team in managing and facilitating all relevant supply chain's program execution and identifying, mitigating and resolving risks/issues to ensure all work products meet cost, schedule and technical requirements. Additionally, your responsibilities will include reviewing contractual documents to ensure adherence to company policy, government specifications and requirements, and conformance to master agreements. Must be able to work independently with little supervision.

The ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance), Aviation, and Security (IAS) business area is a leader in ISR and aviation, it is a leading prime manned and unmanned aircraft systems integrator for innovative, high-performance ISR and aviation systems. Its end-to-end Command, Control, Computers, Communications and Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (C4ISR) capabilities encompass design, integration, test, certification, ground/flight training and complete logistics support. IAS tailors solutions to customer cost, performance, and schedule requirements and designs to consistently exceed expectations – with an unrivaled record of on time and on (or under) budget deliveries.

Responsibilities:

• Create the Program-level Subcontract Management Plan, including strategy, structure, roles reporting responsibilities, and communication plan 
• Lead, programmatic and technical meetings with the subcontractors
• May be delegated Control Account Manager responsibilities from Program Manager 
• May be responsible for make / buy assessments
• May be assigned as the Subcontract Program Manager for a given, large and/or complex subcontract – executing the role of Program Manager for the given subcontract
• Responsible for the coordination between supply chain and the program, ensuring supply chain personnel responsible for supplier performance execute to their schedules and deliver on milestones
• If assigned to a platform, product line, BU or product support team, collaborate and communicate potential long-term investment strategies to reduce lead-time and cost
• Identify and coordinate the need for alternate/additional sources to the program and engineering to improve competition and leverage - be the supply chain architect on the proposal or program, delivering a competitive, capable, compliant program supply base
• Articulate and communicate subcontract and major procurement status, risk & opportunity management, and issues with corresponding recovery plans to all stakeholders
• Develop and status program Subcontract Stoplight Chart, highlighting current cost, technical and schedule performance of each program subcontract
• Within proposal or program setting, lead business requirements, technical evaluations, risk assessments and Basis of Estimate requirements and supporting strategies on behalf of supply chain 
• Attend Program Reviews with subcontractors, providing program updates, needs and status, requesting and communicating program-driven changes and needs
• Provide supply chain strategy and status to external customers 
• As required, track and coordinate EVM metrics to all stakeholders
• Ensure subcontract management teams are staffed to requirement needs
• Ensure problems are addressed and resolved in a timely manner as the liaison between SCM and the program
• Identification of potential sources of supply
• Development of source selection strategy, criteria and planning, including participation in Make / Buy assessments
• Develop and document labor and non-labor program Basis of Estimates associated with subcontracts and major procurements
• Develop program/technical requirements documents
• Support technical evaluation of proposals for content and quality
• Lead the development of source selection plans, communicate and justify results to program leadership
• Provide subcont