global supply management team is responsible for the sourcing, manufacturing development execution, and production of Client's differentiated and unique materials including textiles, adhesives, and polyurethane. Part of Client's core business is the creation and development of our world-class industrial designs and as such, the management of the supply chains is required to be equally unique, innovative and specialized.
Responsibilities:
- Supply chain management: identification, development, and management of Client soft goods materials suppliers.
- On-time delivery: schedule, capacity, and supply planning to meet Client’s production demand
- Risk Mitigation: evaluation of technical and business risks using data-based analysis and developing sound risk mitigation alternatives
- Program Management: the ability to manage all of the above tasks and personnel resources
- Cross functional: support and collaboration across Client's material, product development, and operations teams
- Technology Development Management: evaluation and development of new technologies using new materials, finishes, and processes.
- Build Support: on site management of materials and final assembly partners to manage the development builds, risk mitigation, and ramp
- Travel up to 25%
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years in NPI operations readiness, supply chain, or similar industry
- Bachelor’s in mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, or similar discipline
Additional Notes:
- Provide a brief overview of your team and it’s role at Client
- Soft goods materials supports yarn, textiles, polyurethane films, adhesives, and other materials consumed by many products across Client
- GSMs support the execution of supply of these materials, with the primary objective delivering these on-time and at-cost, while managing suppliers, risks, and supporting the cross-functional teams with leadership
- If this position is supporting a specific project, please provide an overview of the project
- support post-ramp qualification and color-spin activities — examples include 2nd source qualifications for cost or risk mitigations
- Overview of position details
- Provide 3 to 4 core skills needed for this role
- Manufacturing knowledge - planning, capacity, factory operations, batch vs continuous processes, and quality control
- Project management skills - developing plans & schedules, driving meeting & coordination, pushing suppliers to meet deliverables, e.g. delivery of data, analysis, reporting, etc.
- Material or product qualification - phased approach, milestones, critical-to-quality specifications, documentation, product validation & reliability
- Any unique skills or “nice-to-haves”
- Textile or soft goods materials experience
- 9-5 or 10-6, T/W/Th onsite, M/F remote
- Some evening calls with suppliers as needed, can adjust normal working hours as needed to accommodate evening calls when required.