The Senior Project Procurement Specialist ensures the effective and efficient acquisition of goods and services. Keys elements of this role will include project support for supplier management, negotiations, contracts,  and implementation of project procurement processes. It partners with project teams, I.T., the Global Project Office and Finance to develop tools, lead activities and train individuals in project procurement. It works with all levels of management and staff in Compassion. This is an individual contributor role.

Plan, negotiate and administrate purchase orders to support manufacturing activities with minimal oversight of supervisor. 

The Supplier Development Team Leader is responsible for managing the Supplier Development Processes and activities related to Supply Chain Management to improve supplier performance. This necessitates identifying new suppliers based on business needs, rationalizing the supplier base, qualifying, developing and monitoring of those suppliers, root cause analysis (RCA) and corrective action activities, quality control/quality assurance activities related to purchased parts and subsequent assembly of those purchased parts into final products. This process applies to all suppliers (domestic and/or international) as well as internal and external to Goodrich.

This position will manage the activities of technical and non-technical professionals on the Supplier Development Team (supplier engineering, and supplier quality management)

Position Overview

Support key initiatives defined by the Metallic Supply Chain Team.  Develop and maintain Supplier relationships and support the outsourcing strategies both short-term & long-term.  Negotiate long term contracts, create performance tracking methods, and support low cost sourcing initiatives.  Coordinate projects and improvement activities with suppliers and Goodrich Interiors, Center of Excellence, to develop the lowest cost source of supply for direct materials.  Develop make/buy tools and cost driver models for direct materials.