Job Description
Job Description Join our award-winning, dynamic, and growing aerospace supply chain team, supporting mission-critical capabilities across a growing and diverse portfolio of both commercial and military customers. This opportunity offers a broad range of supply chain management activities with the Controls & Avionics Solutions (CAS) supply chain team within BAE Systems Electronic Systems Sector. As a Supply Chain Program Manager, you will play a key role developing strategic direction and mitigating risk, ensuring supply chain continuity within commodity groups and strategic suppliers, aligning with business area objectives.
Key Responsibilities: - Collaborating with a team to support daily production tiered meetings with operations to identify critical supply chain needs
- Evaluating, negotiating, and managing assigned supply base within specific commodity groupings to ensure conforming product is delivered to specification, within budget, and on time to purchase order schedules
- Acting as the main focal point for identified assigned commodity shortages, working with suppliers on escalation, resolution, or alternate paths
- Authoring, managing, and influencing critical part Return to Green efforts (RTG) in conjunction with maintaining a Line of Balance (LOB) supporting our forecasted requirements
- Establishing milestone objectives as necessary and managing performance to committed schedules, forecasted pipelines, and contractual requirements
- Leading sourcing segmentation (identifying risk based on commodity type, supplier, and cost) activities with the supply chain, engineering, and program teams to identify opportunities for cost reduction and second source projects
- Working with supply chain colleagues and peer teams to ensure parts are set-up on appropriate replenishment strategies, monitoring inventory levels, and facilitating program material transitions
- Support cross-functional internal investigations identifying root cause of self-induced shortages & logistics constraints
- Monitoring supplier/supply-chain risks, supporting capacity analysis, contributing to supplier ratings, maintaining supplier risk registry, and ensuring key issues are flagged to the business, and participating in development of risk mitigation plans
- Building and maintaining both impact and risk slides for supplier program risk registry and program review forums
- Fostering supplier engagement with participation in Supplier Business Reviews (SBRs) covering supplier scorecard encompassing cost, quality, and delivery, while maintaining a positive supplier relationship
- Supporting customer/partnership engagements related to supply-chain, as well as supplier process, capability, and capacity assessments governed by business needs
Ideal Candidate: The ideal candidate for this position must demonstrate critical thinking skills and an ability to manage complex supply chain situations. You should be a self-starter with strong communication skills, responsible for constructively supporting various functions and levels of leadership at BAE Systems while acting as the face of the company in engagements with our supply base partners.
What We Offer: Join our award-winning, dynamic, and growing aerospace supply chain team, supporting mission-critical capabilities across a growing and diverse portfolio of both commercial and military customers. This opportunity offers a broad range of supply chain management activities with the Controls & Avionics Solutions (CAS) supply chain team within BAE Systems Electronic Systems Sector. As a Supply Chain Program Manager, you will play a key role developing strategic direction and mitigating risk, ensuring supply chain continuity within commodity groups and strategic suppliers, aligning with business area objectives.
We provide a team-oriented environment with opportunities for inner-team coaching and growth. Our benefits include the opportunity to work with a talented team of professionals and a flexible hybrid work schedule (roughly 60-80% onsite).
Required Education, Experience, & Skills - Bachelor's degree
- 4+ years of experience in supply chain or a related field
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills necessary to interact with diverse work teams
- Ability to support complex negotiations and arrangements
- Exhibit sound interpersonal skills involving interfacing, coordinating, and negotiating with company personnel, suppliers, and partners
- Demonstrated success of management and monitoring of supplier performance and execution
- Experience with facilitating, leading, and coordinate meetings with suppliers and stakeholders
- Decision making ability aligning with BAE Systems' Supply Chain Guiding Principles, using sound judgment while complying with policies and procedures, even with partial information
- Ability to be detail-oriented, prioritize, and multitask with strong organizational and follow-through skills in a fast-paced, time-sensitive manufacturing environment
- Technical aptitude
- Willingness to travel both domestically and internationally (approximately 25%)
Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills - Engineering or Technical Degree
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
- Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP), Certified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM), or equivalent
- Development of analytical tools with Oracle, APEX, Midas, Visual Basic, Power BI, or Tableau
Pay Information Full-Time Salary Range: $77814 - $132283
Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.
Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.
About BAE Systems Electronic Systems BAE Systems, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, an international defense, aerospace and security company which delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it s what we do at BAE Systems. Working here means using your passion and ingenuity where it counts defending national security with breakthrough technology, superior products, and intelligence solutions. As you develop the latest technology and defend national security, you will continually hone your skills on a team making a big impact on a global scale. At BAE Systems, you ll find a rewarding career that truly makes a difference. Electronic Systems (ES) is the global innovator behind BAE Systems game-changing defense and commercial electronics. Exploiting every electron, we push the limits of what is possible, giving our customers the edge and our employees opportunities to change the world. Our products and capabilities can be found everywhere from the depths of the ocean to the far reaches of space. At our core are more than 14,000 highly talented Electronic Systems employees with the brightest minds in the industry, we make an impact for our customers and the communities we serve.
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