Supplier Capacity Project Manager

Manages, develops, and implements programs composed of multiple cross-functional projects. Partners with key business stakeholders to ensure successful project completion. Leads initiatives to optimize supply capacity, improve demand visibility, and manage procurement deliverables for new business start-ups. This role requires strong project leadership, risk management, and stakeholder collaboration.

Key Responsibilities:

• Optimize Supply Capacity: Own the overall status of supply capacity for each engine/genset family, ensuring efficient and reliable supply chains while minimizing disruptions.
• Clear Demand Visibility: Serve as the point of contact for demand visibility, providing stakeholders with accurate, timely information on both constrained and unconstrained demand to aid strategic decision-making.
• Accurate Demand Signals: Collaborate with global material planning teams to maintain precise EDI demand signals, ensuring the supply base is well-informed and responsive.
• Lead Capacity Uplift: Spearhead capacity uplift initiatives for complex, cross-functional categories, driving improvements and enhancing overall supply chain resilience.
• Timely Procurement Deliverables: Ensure all procurement deliverables for new business start-ups are completed on time to support the successful launch and scaling of new ventures.
• Program Management: Manage and implement cross-functional programs, partnering with key stakeholders to ensure projects meet business objectives.
• Project Leadership: Lead multiple projects from inception to completion, facilitate planning sessions, set performance goals, and track progress to ensure successful execution.
• Risk Management and Coaching: Identify and mitigate project risks, apply motivational techniques to drive change, and coach team members to foster a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration.

Technical Competencies:

• Supplier Collaboration: Serve as the Primary point of contact to partner with Procurement and supplier management teams ensuring long-term supply and capacity planning in alignment with demand
• Project Management: Ensure timely execution of critical activities and manage risk mitigation across functional stakeholder groups
• Supply Chain Management: Deep knowledge of Integrated Business Planning (IBP) in a complex setting, to develop demand and supply scenarios at various levels.
• Data Analytics: Ensure working through large data sets to make sense of current and future supply plans through a dynamic supply chain network, keeping product lifecycles and sourcing strategies in mind.
  

Qualifications:

• Education: College, university, or equivalent degree required. Masters Degree is a plus.
• Licenses & Certifications: This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.
• Experience: 10+ years of supply chain, planning, manufacturing sourcing / procurement, or vendor management experience.

Competencies:

• Financial Acumen: Interpreting and applying an understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions.
• Values Differences: Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.
• Business Insight: Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization s goals.
• Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Customer Focus: Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Manages Complexity: Making sense of complex, high-quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Manages Conflict: Handling conflict situations effectively with minimal disruption.
• Plans and Aligns: Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
• Project Issue and Risk Management: Identifying, assessing, and prioritizing issues and risks while driving actions to mitigate them and maximize positive outcomes.
• Project Resource Management: Developing resource (expense and headcount) plans using recommended project management tools and processes to manage resources effectively.
• Project Schedule Management: Managing the planned schedule using the recommended schedule management tools and processes to drive completion within the agreed timeline.
• Project Scope Management: Managing project deliverables (scope) to ensure that all necessary work is completed efficiently and effectively.