The ARES I Program is seeking an expert Supplier Program Manager for propulsion and pyrotechnics supplier(s). The selected candidate will manage a major subcontractor or a combination of several medium to small subcontracts. The critical Supplier Program Management responsibilities include: establishing and continually strengthening the partner relationship between Boeing and the supplier(s). Ability to monitor supplier business health. Ability to address Boeing concerns with supplier as s well as supplier concerns with Boeing. Serves as the primary contact and leader for the Boeing/supplier team. Communicates across stakeholders to report status and concerns, and to achieve compliance with Boeing procurement strategy and contractual compliance. The selected candidate will lead in sourcing and business development strategy and contract development across the enterprise. Provide comprehensive industry intelligence to others, coordinates or supports the evaluation of supplier proposals, including terms and conditions, pricing, schedule, risk assessment, best value, technical considerations, etc., of products/services to identify the appropriate supplier to fulfill the customer requirement. May establish and lead the negotiation team in discussions with the supplier to achieve desired business unit or program goals. Manage all aspects of supplier relationship and performance throughout all contract phases. Collect and analyze supplier performance data to assure supplier performance meets all Boeing requirements. Provide technical and business direction to suppliers by developing plans to improve performance and ensure contractual requirements are fulfilled. May serve as team leader of cross-company teams. Integrates enterprise-wide procurement activities by participating on cross functional teams and consulting with executive level supplier focal to plan and manage work with suppliers in order to meet multiple business objectives. Respond to industry-wide program or in-service issue(s). Conduct on-site evaluations, root-cause analysis and identifies solutions to establish the basis for recovery plans, corrective action and preventative actions. Work across organization/enterprise to determine priorities for deliveries, necessary supplier corrective actions and resolution of issues to ensure contractual compliance. Communicate across stakeholders to report status and concerns and to achieve compliance with Boeing enterprise procurement strategies. Act as a consultant and leads continuous supplier assessments and mentoring of best practices. Lead contract performance reviews, regular site visits, design reviews, rate readiness reviews, lean assessments, preferred supplier process and metrics. Continuously improves supplier performance and lower supplier cost. Identify supplier capacity/capability to perform current and projected work statement, support Boeing procurement strategy and contractual compliance. Research and develop new innovative methods to measure key supplier and internal performance indicators, analyzes performance data and prepares visual aids to lead periodic performance reviews. Direct complex high-risk work movement projects by verifying that the elements of the work movement plan are credible and complete. Manage plan activities to ensure that supplier produces conforming and compliant products on time. Provide technical assistance to ensure cost, delivery schedule compliance and product conformity.
Competencies
General
Building A Successful Team
Proactively ensures that the purpose and importance of the team are clarified (e.g., team has a clear charter or mission statement); designs and guides the setting of specific and measurable team goals and objectives. Clarifies roles and responsibilities of team members; helps ensure that necessary steering, review, or support functions are in place. Regularly mentors senior team leaders in making procedural or process suggestions for achieving team goals or performing team functions; provides necessary resources or helps to remove obstacles to team accomplishments. Listens to and fully involves others in team decisions and actions; values and uses individual differences and talents. Shares important or relevant information with the team. Adheres to the team's expectations and guidelines; fulfills team responsibilities; demonstrates personal commitment to the team.
Communication
Consistently and proactively clarifies purpose and importance; stresses major points; follows a logical sequence. Widely recognized as an enterprise wide expert in consistently keeping the audience thoroughly engaged through use of techniques such as analogies, illustrations, humor, an appealing style, body language, and voice inflection. Consistently frames even the most advanced and complex messages in line with audience experience, background, and expectations; uses terms, examples, and analogies that are meaningful to the audience. Consistently and proactively seeks input from audience; checks understanding; presents message in different ways to enhance understanding. Uses syntax, pace, volume, diction, and mechanics appropriate to the media being used. Proactively attends to both direct and indirect messages from others; correctly interprets messages and responds appropriately. Regularly mentors and advises fellow senior team leaders on effective communication techniques.
Decision Making
Consistently and proactively recognizes a wide range of highly complex, advanced, and specialized issues, problems, or opportunities in own work group, across the organization and with external customers; determines whether action is needed. Consistently identifies the need for and proactively researches information to better understand advanced issues, problems, and opportunities. Is widely recognized as an enterprise wide level expert in integrating complex, advanced information from a variety of sources; detects unusually complex trends, associations, and cause-effect relationships. Proactively guides others in creating relevant options for addressing problems/opportunities and achieving desired outcomes. Consistently formulates clear decision criteria; evaluates options by considering implications and consequences; chooses an effective option. Consistently implements decisions or initiates action within a reasonable time. Consistently includes fellow senior team leaders, team leaders, senior managers, internal employees, and external customers in the decision-making process as warranted to obtain good information, make the most appropriate decisions, and ensure buy-in and understanding of the resulting decisions.
Project Management
Recognized industry expertise in creating comprehensive multi-tiered project schedules for extremely complicated and significant projects. Directs and manages the most complex project schedules requiring interfacing with multi regional or international activities. Independently identifies project resource requirements, integrates and directs multi project elements into a single collective overall project plan. Collaborates with others on the most complex projects assigned. As an enterprise role model, demonstrates ability to direct, delegate and ensure performance of assigned responsibilities and tasks as a project team leader in support of enterprise wide or extremely complex large-scale projects. Mentors senior project leaders to help them identify and resolve issues to ensure successful completion of projects. Technical
Analytical Skills
Skill and ability to: collect, organize, synthesize, and analyze data; summarize findings; develop conclusions and recommendations from appropriate data sources at the enterprise level.
Contracting Process
Highly advanced, expert knowledge of the negotiation and contracting processes (e.g., may negotiate final contract terms).
Customer/Supplier Knowledge
Highly advanced, expert knowledge of customer's/supplier's organization, processes, policies and procedures, products, requirements, capabilities, practices, support resources, preferences, constraints, etc.
Engineering Processes
Highly advanced, expert knowledge of responsibilities and tasks performed by various Engineering departments/disciplines (e.g., design, test, software, technology, avionics). Highly advanced, expert knowledge of the interaction between departments/ disciplines and how their products/processes affect one another and impact non-engineering processes (e.g., Operations, Logistics, Business).
Presentation Skills/Techniques
Highly advanced, expert knowledge of and ability to employ innovative presentation techniques (e.g., posture, speaker's relationship to audience, use of intonation and props, use of visual aids and pacing) covering complex subjects to senior level audiences. Ability to use this Highly advanced, expert knowledge to coach other presenters.
Project Leadership
Highly advanced, expert ability to direct, delegate, and ensure performance of assigned responsibilities and tasks as a project team leader in support of enterprise wide and/or extremely complex large-scale projects. Highly advanced, expert ability to identify and resolve any issues to ensure the successful completion of the project.
Typical Education/Experience
Technical bachelor's degree and typically 20 or more years' related work experience or a Master's degree with typically 18 or more years' or a PhD degree with typically 15 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. A technical degree is defined as any four year degree, or greater, in a mathematic, scientific or information technology field of study.
Other Job related information
Experience and demonstrated ability in the development and production of space flight systems. Preferably experience in structural, propulsion and pyrotechnic systems. This position requires the ability to obtain access to a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) facility. US Citizenship Required.
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