Integrated Product Support, Provisioning & Obsolescence Lead - GM Defense

Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. The successful candidate is expected to report to the Global Technical Center in Warren, Michigan three times per week, at minimum, or other frequency dictated by the business.

About the Role

GM Defense is seeking a Provisioning and Obsolescence Lead to manage the development, quality, and delivery of logistics and sustainment information for defense vehicle programs. This role connects engineering, supply chain, program management, technical documentation, information technology, contracts, suppliers, and customers to ensure that the parts, support equipment, technical data, and risk information needed to sustain vehicles are complete, accurate, and delivered on schedule. This is a people leader role.

Responsibilities

• Own the planning, development, review, and delivery of provisioning and logistics product data, including parts lists, structured logistics analysis data, and related support documentation.
• Coordinate with engineering, program, supply chain, technical publications, and other functional teams to collect missing information and resolve data gaps before customer reviews and provisioning events.
• Lead preparation for and participation in customer provisioning conferences, reviews, and other milestone events; track decisions, actions, risks, and follow-up commitments through closure.
• Establish quality-control practices to verify that customer-facing documentation is accurate, complete, internally consistent, and ready for submission.
• Manage changes that affect bills of material, parts data, configuration information, and downstream sustainment deliverables.
• Develop and execute an end-to-end provisioning strategy that improves timeliness, quality, repeatability, and internal capability while reducing unnecessary reliance on third-party providers.
• Partner with Information Technology and process owners to improve the systems, data flows, and tools used to create and maintain provisioning information.
• Lead transitions and integrations involving configuration data, single-source bills of material, logistics analysis applications, enterprise systems, and collaboration platforms, as applicable to the business need.
• Own relationships and deliverables with third-party technical data, systems integration, and provisioning providers; define expectations, review performance, and ensure contracted work is completed.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for provisioning and sustainment data. Investigate unresolved questions, identify the appropriate source of truth, and drive issues to resolution.
• Lead lifecycle risk management for diminishing manufacturing sources, material shortages, and obsolescence across integrated vehicle and sustainment programs. Identify and assess risks involving materials, components, software, and technology; develop mitigation plans; and coordinate timely internal and customer reporting.
• Lead, coach, and develop direct reports while building a collaborative, accountable, and customer-focused team.
• Support proposal, capture, and new-program activities by applying provisioning and obsolescence expertise to estimates, schedules, execution plans, and customer requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience considered in lieu of a degree.
• 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Advanced experience in provisioning, integrated logistics/product support, sustainment engineering, technical data, supply chain, or defense program execution or closely related field.
• Candidate must be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident, asylee or refugee). U.S. citizenship required to comply with federal government contract provision expressly restricting role to U.S. citizens.
• Experience leading complex projects and coordinating cross-functional teams through defined deliverables and milestone dates.
• Experience developing, reviewing, and delivering technical or logistics data to customers or government organizations.
• Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical information to diverse audiences.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, investigate incomplete information, and drive actions to closure with limited direction.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office or comparable productivity and collaboration tools.
• Ability to work effectively in a hybrid, matrixed, and customer-facing environment.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as business requirements dictate.
• Ability to meet applicable U.S. export-control requirements for the role.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, supply chain management, logistics, business, technical communications, or a related field.
• Experience with Department of Defense or other government vehicle, equipment, or sustainment programs.
• Experience with provisioning, logistics product data, structured logistics analysis, parts cataloging, or related defense logistics standards and practices.
• Experience managing supply continuity, product obsolescence, end-of-life planning, or technology risk.
• Experience with customer provisioning conferences, government contract deliverables, or formal technical data submissions.
• Experience with enterprise resource planning, bill-of-material, configuration-management, logistics-analysis, or technical-publication systems.
• Experience managing third-party technical service providers or subcontractors.
• Experience leading or developing employees and establishing performance metrics.
• Familiarity with international programs, export compliance, or cross-border sustainment requirements.
• Defense Acquisition University training or equivalent professional development in logistics, provisioning, parts management, or obsolescence management.

Schedule

The selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times per week or other frequency dictated by their manager. Travel is required for this role, estimated at less than 25%.

Benefits

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