Senior Program Manager, Supply Chain

Job Responsibilities

• Lead or support meetings within an IPT structure. Provide interface, communication and coordination with internal and external customers, as well as line of business leadership, on matters pertaining to assigned projects. Duties may also include support of bid and proposal activities.
• Participate in purchase order negotiations as requested.
• Develop and implement plans and schedules to execute assigned projects. Make recommendations on budgets for labor, material, travel and purchased services.
• Formally identify, assess, monitor and mitigate risks and opportunities throughout the program life cycle. Obtain management approval prior to making decisions that will cause deterioration of established program cost and schedule objectives.
• May be required to ensure the overall execution of material on schedule and on budget for a business area.
• May be required to collaborate on various tasks with various project teams.
• May be required to support tasks/team/project/engineering changes.
• Notify and seek senior management assistance in resolving schedule and budget problems as they arise. Develop and implement corrective action plans when deviations from budgets and/or schedules are evident.
• Perform variance analysis of schedule and cost on a formal and informal basis and present them to senior management.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant experience as a supply chain program manager or equivalent experience
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Engineering, Program Management, or Business degree may be preferred or equivalent combination of education and experience depending upon the job discipline
• Knowledge of program management tools and procedures
• Solid leadership and management skills
• Exposure to the program lifecycle or components of development through sustainment to include: proposal development, requirements decomposition, generation of system and subsystem statements of work and subcontracts, risk management, and continuous improvement efforts including implementation cost reduction and performance improvement efforts
• Exposure to the earned value cost accounting and reporting; experience with metrics for assessing and reporting program progress, productivity and variance analysis
• Exposure to finance, contracting, export regulations, engineering, logistics, manufacturing and supply chain management
• Strong customer interface skills
• Solid problem-solving skills
• Strong presentation skills
• Demonstrated knowledge of specific discipline
• Exposure to managing manpower planning, project reviews, scheduling and budget control
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Program Management certification preferred (i.e. PMP or DAU)