Global Strategic Supplier Risk Manager

The Global Strategic Supplier Risk Manager is responsible for owning and leading procurement risk management across supplier portfolios for PPG Aerospace, supporting the Transparencies business. This role ensures continuity of supply, regional resilience, and informed sourcing decisions by identifying, assessing, and mitigating supplier, capacity, geopolitical, and market risks. This position is situated in our Huntsville, AL location Monday through Thursday with Friday as a remote day.  The Global Strategic Supplier Risk Manager reports to the Global Procurement Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end supplier risk visibility across USCA, EMEA and APAC for assigned commodities, clearly articulating the business impact of potential supplier disruptions.
• Identify, assess, and monitor business-critical supplier risks, including:
  • Capacity and scalability constraints
  • Sole-source and regional concentration exposure
  • Geopolitical, regulatory, and logistics disruptions
  • Financial stability and operational dependency risks

• Maintain and update supplier risk segmentation (critical, strategic, transactional) to support prioritization, escalation, and decision-making.
• Support sourcing and supplier selection decisions by evaluating trade-offs between cost, continuity, capacity, and regional exposure.
• Partner closely with the business, S&T, category and commodity managers to embed risk considerations into sourcing strategies, supplier roadmaps, and regional footprint decisions.
• Support supplier diversification, localization, and second-source strategies aligned with long-term business and regional resilience objectives.
• Develop and maintain executive-level risk dashboards, heat maps, and summaries that provide clear, actionable insights to procurement and business leadership.
• Monitor external risk indicators, including geopolitical developments, trade restrictions, logistics constraints, and regional instability.
• Anticipate emerging risks and proactively advise procurement leadership on mitigation plans and risk-response strategies.
• Contribute to the development and maturation of a long-term procurement risk management framework to strengthen global supplier resilience and continuity of supply.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, or a related field required; Master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in supplier-facing roles within aerospace or complex manufacturing environments, such as supplier development, sourcing support, procurement, or procurement-adjacent functions.
• Demonstrated experience assessing supplier capacity, dependency, and regional exposure, including portfolio-level risk analysis across multiple suppliers.
• Proven experience supporting risk-informed sourcing, dual-source, or second-source decisions while balancing cost, continuity, and regional considerations.
• Strong track record of developing and presenting risk visibility artifacts, such as dashboards, heat maps, and executive summaries, using data-driven approaches.
• Experience working across global supplier networks and partnering effectively with category or commodity managers.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder-influence skills; PMP or equivalent project leadership experience preferred.
• U.S. Citizens, Green Card holders, and political asylees or refugees are eligible to apply
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