Senior Procurement Manager (onsite)

About the role

The Senior Procurement Manager will play a critical role in driving supplier performance and ensuring seamless execution across a complex global supply base. Acting as a strategic, hands-on partner to quality, engineering, and senior leadership, this individual will lead key supplier initiatives, resolve production challenges, and mitigate risks that threaten schedule, cost, or quality.

Responsibilities

• Manage a group of suppliers from PO placement through order delivery.
• Directs and manages all schedules, and purchase orders for the client account or the product family, ensuring on time delivery and meeting all Quality requirements for products.
• Reviews critical shortages with the multiple stakeholders.
• Managing the supplier relationship and improvement activities.
• Proactively identify, analyze, and communicate program execution risks of supplier deliverables.
• Compiles price proposals, financial reports, and other data and information to provide input on reasonable prices.
• Communicate and work closely with different internal organizations and internal customers such as quality and engineering to overcome any production and quality impediments.
• Reviews request for proposals (RFP) and bid packages. Present to senior leadership.
• Travel up to 30% domestically and internationally.
• Able to work on special projects presenting direct to Senior Leadership.
• Able to support other team members for escalations at complex suppliers.
• Responsible to monitor and implement corrective actions to ensure adherence to team metric targets.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum of 7 years’ experience.
• Aerospace industry or similar experience in areas of Engineering, Supply chain, Procurement and Operations.
• SAP experience.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees.
• A generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option.
• Tuition reimbursement program.
• Student Loan Repayment Program.
• Life insurance and disability coverage.
• Optional coverages you can buy, such as pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection, birth, adoption, parental leave benefits, Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning, Adoption Assistance, Autism Benefit, Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions, Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program, Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits, Bright Horizons, child and elder care services, Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program, and more!