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Job Title: Director, Supply Chain Mgmt

Job Code: 22535

Job Location: Melbourne, FL

Job Schedule: 9/80 - Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

The Director of Supply Chain Management will be responsible for leading all supply chain activities required to meet the assigned sector requirements. Individual selected will also be responsible for collaborating with other Supply Chain functions, Programs, Finance, and Supplier and Customer leaders to improve AR’s material availability and supplier performance. Knowledge of aerospace industry products, supply chains, government procurement requirements and industry standard supply chain practices is required. Candidate must be a proactive leader with the ability to make responsive decisions that balance the strategic and tactical needs of the Supply Chain organization and the Sector. 

The Supply Chain Sector Lead will report to the Aerojet Rocketdyne Segment Vice President of Supply Chain. As such, the Supply Chain Sector Lead will have the responsibility to: accept program direction from company executives and the Program Office and implement it expeditiously and conscientiously; manage the supply chain portion of assigned programs to the best of their abilities within approved resources; be customer-focused and provide the best, most cost-effective systems or capabilities, and within contract bounds. While conducting these responsibilities the Supply Chain Sector Lead will apply continuous improvement to; innovate, strive for optimal solutions and seek better ways to manage; be candid about supply chain status, including risks, problems, mitigations and solutions, likely outcomes and opportunities; prepare thorough estimates of financial and resources that are required to execute the assigned program scope; and manage the supply chain portion of assigned programs to the best of their abilities to achieve the approved financial base-lined program objectives.

Essential Functions:

The Director of Supply Chain will be responsible for all aspects of supply chain performance required to achieve SP&PS Sector requirements to include, but not limited, to the following:

• Providing leadership, strategic direction and determining organizational objectives for all supply chain activities relating to the assigned Sector
• Responsible for accomplishing all supply chain activities relating to the assigned Sector requirements through the application of company internal controls, communication, policy, directive and procedural requirements to include:
  • Aligning and meeting AOP material receipts
  • Aligning and meeting established supplier OTD goals
  • Aligning and meeting established supplier COPQ goals
• Responsible for establishing departmental policies required to accomplish supply chain activities, aligned to enterprise level goals, objectives and policies, relating to the assigned Sector requirements
• Responsible for interpreting, executing and recommending modifications to L3Harris policies, aligned to enterprise level goals, objectives and policies, required to improve supply chain performance required to meet supply chain activities relating to the assigned Business Unit requirements
• Responsible for defining resource requirements and managing departmental operating budgets required to achieve supply chain activities relating to the assigned Sector
• Drive improved delivery performance (cost, schedule and quality) from supply base through use of supply chain strategies (e.g. consistent with Category Management strategies) and integration with Program and Finance, Supplier Quality, the customer and our suppliers.
• Drive improved organizational performance through development of standard work to transparently execute daily responsibilities with maximum efficiency.
• Interacting with intra-organizational managers concerning matters of significance to Aerojet Rocketdyne and L3Harris.
• Reviewing overall budget schedules and performance standards, and reviewing and approving major expenditures.
• Supporting all Business Unit proposal efforts including recommending and executing risk assessments and mitigations as well as negotiating strategies.
• Conducting briefings and project review meetings for AR management and external customers.
• Fostering ethical conduct, practices and personal integrity throughout Aerojet Rocketdyne.
• Work collaboratively within the Supply Chain Management Enterprise to promote holistic enterprise solutions and continuous improvement.
• Managing the self-audit activities of assigned functions.

Qualifications:

Requires a Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 15 years of prior supply chain management experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 13 years of prior supply chain management experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 19 years of prior supply chain management experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Understand the power of delegation on team effectiveness.
• Communicate effectively with all levels of management and individual contributors internally and externally to the company.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work, such as program participants, and other staff and representatives from other organizations.

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