Description
As a Global Supply Chain Manager at Leidos, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the success of the company's defence sector projects.
You will manage a team of Subcontracts professionals, provide strategic leadership, and act as a key interface between Leidos management and senior Contracts and Global Supply Chain management.
Your primary responsibilities will include:
- Managing the team's workload, making assignments, setting clear expectations, and holding staff accountable to commitments and goals
- Applying thorough knowledge of federal subcontracting and experience providing creative solutions to business and program requirements, while ensuring compliance with all prime customer requirements and commitments
- Leading negotiations and execution of strategic long-term agreements with key suppliers to support supply continuity, affordability, innovation, and long-term procurement savings
- Collaborating with Contracts, Supply Chain, Business Development, Program Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, Finance, and other stakeholders to integrate supplier strategies early in capture, proposal, and program lifecycles
- Identifying and mitigating complex issues or risks for the managed subcontract portfolio
- Translating supplier data into executive-ready insights, recommendations, and action plans that enable measurable savings, stronger supplier performance, improved compliance, and reduced Sector risk
The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and 5+ years of prior relevant experience, or a Master's degree with 3+ years of prior relevant experience.
Basic qualifications include:
- Active and current Secret clearance (must be US Citizen)
- Experience awarding and managing subcontracts in a government-approved purchasing system (CPSR), including an advanced knowledge of the requirements of the FAR/DFARS, other Federal agency requirements, and small business participation
- Successful background of using negotiating skills to maximize organizational return, minimize risk, and improve price and terms and conditions position
- Successful track record of managing a variety of subcontract types and interfacing with internal customers, other functional support staff, and suppliers
- Experience independently leading the subcontracts portion of proposal efforts
- Organizational skills to manage concurrent projects, and the business acumen to appropriately prioritize actions and deal effectively with subcontract management issues of varying degrees of complexity
- Ability to communicate clearly, including presenting status updates and issues to senior management, internal partners, and suppliers
- Ability to obtain and maintain a US DoW security clearance
Preferred qualifications include:
- Experience supporting Department of Defense and Federal programs, programs of record, capture pursuits, and proposal development for large government acquisitions in the Defense/Aerospace industry
- Working knowledge of CPSR compliance, NIST SP 800-171, and cyber/supplier readiness requirements
- Knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma, or similar process improvement methodologies
- CPSM, CPC, CFCM, ISM, APICS, PMI PMP, or other relevant professional certification
- Experience working with RF, electronic warfare, missile, radar, SATCOM, aviation, space, manufacturing, or advanced defense technology supply chains
- Experience building strong supplier relationships that can be leveraged to assist in future issue resolution
- Experience supervising or leading a team(s)
- Working experience with ERP systems, ideally Deltek Costpoint and other procurement systems (e.g., Ivalua)
The pay range for this position is $92,300.00 - $166,850.00.