Supply Chain Management Specialist-1

Overview

Draper is an independent, nonprofit research and development company headquartered in Cambridge, MA. Founded in 1945, Draper tackles important national challenges through multidisciplinary teams of engineers and scientists. For more information, visit www.draper.com.

Job Description

• Proactively works collaboratively with internal program teams, quality, and other functional areas to understand unique supply chain needs to support customer, program, and commodity strategies.
• Source and evaluate supplier quotes, select, and recommend suppliers and negotiate price, delivery, quality, service, and most competitive solution.
• Identifies and realizes cost savings and reduction opportunities, gains alignment with finance and internal stakeholders for these wins, and actively tracks post-event actual savings obtained.
• Works closely with the program offices, quality, and the larger procurement team and acts as the primary point of contact for program-specific suppliers.
• Affordability of Bill of Materials changes as relates to baseline and estimate to complete.
• Ability to review and understand contractual requirements and facilitates supplier business relationships to ensure contractual requirements, performance, obligations, and expectations are met.
• Understand and interpret contract changes.
• Proactively engage with suppliers to resolve issues and negotiate lead time improvement and other advantages for Draper.
• Supports supply chain and contractual requirements and compliance during the proposal phase.
• Provides analysis on cost and schedule performance.
• Assists in the development of the Bill of Materials (BOM), to include supplier sourcing and obtaining necessary documentation to ensure compliance and advise on material selection based on supplier performance and risk assessments.
• Negotiates and settles with suppliers regarding damage claims, rejections, losses, return of materials, over shipments, cancellations, and engineering changes.
• Monitors, tracks, and updates order status and is the primary contact to support schedule.
• Other supply chain related tasks as necessary, including logistics and inventory support.

Skills/Abilities

• Working knowledge of government contracting, FAR/DFARS acquisition requirements and related clauses.
• Significant ERP System Experience (Oracle, SAP, Other).
• In-depth knowledge of manufacturing process.
• Strong written, oral, communication, and presentation skills.
• Able to handle multiple projects simultaneously.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain management, or related field.

Experience

• 5-7 years of defense contracting experience within a supply chain role.

Additional Job Description

• Current in scope Secret security clearance is required.
• The US base salary range for this full-time position is $82,300.00 - $220,000.00.
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