SENIOR PROCUREMENT MANAGER (CENTRAL PROCUREMENT) Aerospace/Defense

Job Scope

The Senior Procurement Manager of Central Procurement will manage a team of buyers with expertise in consumables, castings, extrusions, and raw metals. They will drive the implementation of long-term agreements across the supply base, including for suppliers providing complex machining. This role involves managing a team of buyers, subject matter experts, and subcontractors, and ensuring robust negotiations and contract management.

Responsibilities

• Establish robust processes that comply with DCMA, FAR, DFAR, CPSR requirements.
• Identify critical suppliers and establish long-term agreements where it makes business sense.
• Ensure robust negotiations and achieve best value.
• Seek continuous improvements in work instructions, procedures, and policies.
• Improve the process for supplier onboarding, including risk assignment and continuous improvement.
• Maintain continuous improvement in supplier performance.
• Achieve cost reduction and cost avoidance goals.
• Ensure appropriate selection, engagement, negotiation, documentation, award, management, escalation, and problem resolution with complex machining and processing suppliers.
• Manage the team's continuous improvement through the effective use of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Ensure the backlog of purchase requests meets established targets.
• Ensure robust negotiations and best value with complex machining and processing suppliers.

Skills and Requirements

• A positive and collaborative professional personality with a can-do attitude and sense of urgency.
• Uncompromising integrity and accountability.
• Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of experience, including 5+ years as a people-manager in a purchasing function. Alternatively, a master’s degree or higher, and 5 years of experience and 3+ years as a people manager in a purchasing function.
• Experience with purchasing in Aerospace or Defense.
• SAP experience.
• Experience managing teams with KPIs/metrics.
• Ability to read blueprints and understand machining equipment, and experience purchasing complex machined goods and related processes.
• Strong contracts negotiation expertise, including complex negotiations and significant cost savings.
• Excellent coaching skills with examples of success.
• Excellent analytical skills, including cost and price analysis techniques.
• A complex problem-solver with the ability to make timely difficult decisions, sometimes with imperfect data.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Strong Excel, PowerPoint, and Word skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• DFAR/FAR experience.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Experience developing and managing to KPIs.
• High emotional intelligence.
• Expert Complex Problem-Solver.

Work Environment

• On-site full-time
• Medium-to-large office environment
• Fast-paced office environment
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate
• Exposure to a combination of normal office type environments
• May need to enter other warehouse or production environments to view materials or processes

Additional Information

This position must meet export control compliance requirements. All applicants must be “U.S. persons” within the meaning of ITAR, as defined: a U.S. Citizen, a lawful permanent resident, political asylee, or refugee.

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The Marvin Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.