Description
You are a Material Project Manager on Leidos' Global Supply Chain team in Huntsville, AL. Your greatest work is ahead, ensuring material strategy execution across programs by managing open purchase orders, resolving delays, and driving supplier accountability.
Responsibilities:
- Lead execution of material strategy across the program by managing open purchase orders, resolving delays, and driving supplier accountability.
- Act as the primary interface between Leidos and key suppliers, escalating delivery risks, resolving performance issues, and ensuring adherence to contractual requirements.
- Articulate to senior leaders and personnel the value, schedule, and decision points that impact the efficient delivery of specific commodities.
- Manage projects, including requirements justification, planning, executing, and evaluating.
- Play an integral part in the approval process for procurements.
- Use critical thinking skills to propose sound and innovative business solutions that increase operational efficiencies and ensure business area and program success.
- Mitigate and resolve supply chain challenges with priority deliveries and suppliers.
- Facilitate supplier negotiations and discussions to resolution with supply chain and program personnel.
- Articulate and drive execution of vision and goals for the corporate supply chain team in conjunction with program critical needs.
- Manage risk, including creating mitigation plans in coordination with the PMO and project team.
- Participate in Program Management Reviews, status meetings, and other programmatic subcontractor meetings as needed.
- Perform Control Account Management, including establishing and maintaining a baseline, supporting EAC/ETC updates, and conducting variance analysis.
Requirements:
- BA degree and 8–12 years of prior relevant experience, or a Master's degree with 6–10 years of prior relevant experience, in material project management, procurement, or supply chain execution within Defense, Aerospace, or high-complexity industries.
- Strong knowledge of Supply Chain and related systems, along with material procurement.
- Strong analytical and creative problem-solving abilities to understand and facilitate complex supply chain decision-making.
- Expert knowledge of industry practices, advanced techniques, and solutions within a professional discipline to develop new standards, processes, and solutions.
- Proven ability to be a self-starter and quick learner, capable of supporting efforts to achieve goals.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills at all levels, both internally and externally with customers and suppliers.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced situation with continuous innovation and flexibility in an on-site manufacturing environment.
- Excellent risk management methodologies.
- Ability to collaborate and effectively influence across multiple functions to achieve supply chain performance requirements.
- High level of proficiency in MS Office products.
- Working knowledge of customer flow-through requirements.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a DoW Secret security clearance is required.
Benefits: No specific benefits mentioned.
Salary: $92,300.00 - $166,850.00 per year