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.

Responsibilities

• Establish robust processes that comply with DCMA, FAR, DFAR, CPSR requirements.
• Identify critical suppliers and establish LTAs where it makes business sense.
• Ensure robust negotiations and best value.
• Seek continuous improvements in work instructions, procedures, and policy.
• Improve the process for supplier onboarding, including the assignment of supplier risk and processes for continuous supplier improvement.
• Maintain continuous improvement in supplier performance.
• Achieve cost reduction and cost avoidance goals.
• Ensure the appropriate selection, engagement, negotiation, documentation, award of business, contracts, management, escalation, problem resolution, and delivery with complex machining and processing suppliers.
• Manage the effective distribution of work across the team and ensure the backlog of purchase requests meet established targets.
• Maintain continuous improvement in supplier performance.
• Achieve cost reduction and cost avoidance goals.
• 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.
• Must have experience with purchasing in either Aerospace or Defense.
• Must have SAP experience.
• Must have experience managing teams with KPIs/metrics.
• Strong evidence of 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.
• 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.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• DFAR/FAR experience.
• 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
Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate
Exposed 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.