Materials Program Manager

TekWissen LLC; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 120,000; Part time

Job summary

TekWissen Group is seeking a Materials Program Manager in Seattle, WA for a 6-month temporary onsite assignment. You will manage the program's financial and cost models for custom design and devices, coordinating with engineering and supply chain to drive development, budget, and schedule.

The role requires business acumen to capture and communicate financial exposures, own major supplier relationships, and oversee lifecycle milestones with executive reviews.

Qualifications

• Positive attitude
• Willingness to learn
• Trainable
• Some form of technical ability/knowledge
• Electrical/mechanical experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Set program cost and schedule targets with engineering and supply chain teams.
• Ensure timely procurement and delivery of components to support NPI and production builds.
• Coordinate activities across diverse Client groups to minimize escalations to executives.
• Track actual costs and milestones versus targets to identify deltas and corrective actions.
• Lead product introduction meetings to understand cost implications of engineering or process changes.
• Work with 3rd party suppliers to set purchase order costs for upcoming periods.
• Drive SOW and contract negotiations with suppliers for the program.
• Manage purchase price variance claims and schedule delays due to engineering changes or obsolescence.
• Provide detailed cost reduction forecasts to help meet and exceed program goals.

Skills

Positive attitude

Willingness to learn

Trainable

Technical ability/knowledge

Electrical/mechanical experience

Job description

Overview

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients worldwide. Our client is a global technology leader that is transforming the way people shop, consume content, and interact with digital services. With a strong presence across ecommerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence, the company is known for its customercentric approach, innovationdriven culture, and largescale global impact. It continues to invest in building products and services that improve everyday life while supporting businesses, communities, and economies worldwide.

Position

Materials Program Manager

Location

Seattle,WA

Duration

6 Months

Job Type

Temporary Assignment

Work Type

Onsite

Job Description

• Materials Program Manager (MPM) is responsible for the management and delivery of the program's financial and cost models for custom design, groundbreaking devices.
• (BOM+MVA, tooling and NRE) This person has a business orientation and is responsible for working within the local and remote operations, engineering teams driving development, implementation and management of the program budget and schedule.
• This person is the business voice responsible for capturing, documenting and communicating financial exposures and outlay as it relates to their product.
• This person also is the business owner for the major supplier relationships for key modules and final assembly for new custom devices.
• They are involved throughout all stages of the product family's lifecycle to ensure the business achieves all financial and schedule milestone targets through end-of-life.
• They will support weekly executive product line reviews outlining performance against budget, target and actual cost, and schedule.

A day in the life In this role, you will:

• Work with engineering and the supply chain team to set program cost and schedule targets at a commodity level for your project.
• Ensure timely procurement and delivery of components to support NPI and production builds.
• Work with diverse Client groups to coordinate activities and mitigate issues a minimum amount of escalations to executives.
• Track the program actual costs and milestones versus target to identify program deltas and corrective actions to bring back on track.
• Attend and lead program new product introduction meetings to understand the cost implication of engineering and/or process changes as related to your product fully loaded cost targets.
• Work with 3rd Party suppliers to set your product purchase order cost for the upcoming period.
• Drive SOW (Statement of Work) and product/supplier contract negotiations.
• Manage purchase price variance claims and schedule delays resulting from engineering changes, component obsolescence or forecast variance.
• Drive the supply chain and operations team to provide detailed cost reduction forecast that enable you to meet and exceed your program goals.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Positive attitude
• Willingness to learn
• Trainable
• Some form of technical ability/knowledge
• Plus to have electrical/mechanical experience

Years of Experience

• 0-2 years

Degree or Certification

• Not Required but preferred

Leadership Principle

• Earn Trust
• Learn and be curious
• Ownership
• Bias for action

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.