Supply Chain Program Control Buyer - Engine Units
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In this position...
- Manage the timely and quality delivery of Supply Chain Unit Milestone Deliverables, encompassing Commodity Planning, Target Setting, Target Alignment, Sourcing, Cost Delivery, and Purchase Order/Tool Order Issuance.
- Coordinate commodity planning workstreams to provide essential assumption inputs from Product Development, crucial for the successful execution of sourcing work plans.
- Support the achievement of Contribution Cost and Investment Targets for program milestones through Job#1, ensuring timely and high-quality financial outcomes.
Responsibilities
What you'll do...
- Coordinate commodity selection and ensure the achievement of program targets.
- Compile and maintain the initial sourcing tracker/Sourcing Workplan Tool (SWT).
- Consolidate and rollup of target setting status, ensuring alignment with program requirements using commodity waterfalls.
- Facilitate cross-functional alignment and deliver sourcing to meet Supplier Engineering On-Board Dates (SEOBD), coordinating Supplier Involvement Request (SIR) as needed.
- Ensure the on-time completion of the Initial Program Quoting (IPQ) package.
- Represent Supply Chain in Program Planning, Capacity, Matched Pair and New Model Launch (NML) meetings, cascading status updates and communicating support requirements to the Supply Chain team.
- Coordinate input from Supply Chain and Finance to support program financial requirements.
- Manage program localization and USMCA compliance requirements.
- Oversee the overall rollup of purchase order and tool order placement.
- Communicate program timing, status, and requirements effectively to Supply Chain and Site Supplier Technical Assistance (STA).
- Act as the primary point of contact for Supply Chain on the program, preparing status reports to support program reviews.
- Provide Supply Chain input into the Global Product Development System (GPDS) Integrator at all milestones.
- Lead ad hoc studies, including global sourcing initiatives, make vs. buy analyses, price/volume assessments, and capacity constraint evaluations.
- Support cost and capacity studies to ensure adequate funding and supplier readiness for volume uplifts.
- Support alignment with Cost Estimating on Optimal Cost Estimates (OCEs) for new contract negotiations.
- Collaborate with Supplier Technical Assistance to ensure identified supplier site enablers are in place for robust eAPQP/Schedule A kick-off.
Qualifications
You'll have...
- A Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field (Supply Chain, Business, Engineering).
- 2+ years of experience in supply chain.
Even better, you may have...
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, coupled with excellent interpersonal and team-building skills.
- Ability to prioritize, work independently, and manage multiple assignments concurrently.
- Demonstrated ability to build positive cross-functional relationships.
- Strong commercial business acumen.
- Exceptional quantitative and analytical skills.
- A natural curiosity for understanding physical processes and root causes, alongside a strong process improvement mindset.
- Knowledge of GPDS timing, deliverables, and their impact to downstream and cross-functional outputs.
- Experience in Production Buying and/or Program Control/Execution is preferred.
