Supply Chain Commodity Manager III

About the role

This role is part of Blue Origin Operations, which includes Integrated Supply Chain, Test Operations, Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance. The role involves providing strategic leadership in the evaluation, sourcing, and development of the supply base to support the development and production of space vehicles.

Responsibilities

• Provides strategic leadership in the evaluation, sourcing, and development of the supply base to support the development and production of space vehicles
• Ensures supply base can deliver to commercial scope of component procurements and fulfill on time at the lowest lifecycle cost to support program requirements
• Conducts capability and capacity assessments
• Conducts RFx activities for strategic procurements
• Negotiates Long-Term Agreements
• Develops and manages commodity metrics / reporting including but not limited to updates on the state of the industry, supplier rating, supplier segmentation (grow, maintain, exit) to support periodic supplier business reviews to internal stakeholders
• Works with program stakeholders to identify long lead procurement requirements and gaps in supply base capabilities
• Evaluates suitability and stability of current and potential suppliers with regard to financial health, staffing, quality, throughput, technical capability, and reputation
• Leads suppliers through structural business changes required to fulfill Blue’s lifelong program demand
• Identifies opportunities to leverage existing supplier relationships, segment/ rationalize/consolidate the supply base, maintain alternate supplier options, and support long term supplier relationships
• Supports development, deployment and maturation of supplier recognition program
• Identifies candidate suppliers for M&A activity and supports process with M&A team
• Relentlessly gathers intelligence on the health of strategic suppliers’ business and informs Sr. Leadership of long-term risk and proposed countermeasures
• Team with supply chain engineering, procurement and supplier quality engineering to conduct site surveys and business evaluations of existing and potential suppliers, serves as a point of escalation and resolution of corrective actions with suppliers

Qualifications

• 8+ years minimum experience managing commodities in aerospace R&D and manufacturing environments, along with supply chain management experience in aerospace or other regulatory controlled environments
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, or a related field
• Extensive technical knowledge of assigned commodity’s manufacturing processes in at least one assigned commodity
• Track record of performance in driving supplier improvements in cost, quality, schedule, or other performance criteria
• Must be able to travel 25% - 50% of time and to remote sites
• Experience in sourcing for both development and production
• Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams, and independently
• Strong communication skills and ability to manage multiple tasks and projects
• Exceptional organizational and analytical skills, and a proven ability to drive complex projects with minimal oversight

Desired

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Manufacturing or a related field
• Engineering background or strong technical experience in assigned commodity
• CPM, CSCP certification or equivalent
• ASQ quality engineer certification
• 2 years or more of supplier quality experience
• Six sigma/lean process improvement experience
• Experience with AS9100, ISO9001 supply base requirements
• Experience with FAR/DFAR requirements
• Experience with commercial programs and contracts