Senior Director of Supply Chain

Company: Blue Origin LLC
Location: Kent
Posted on: September 12, 2020

Job Description:

As part of a passionate and accomplished team of experts, the Senior Director of Supply Chain is responsible for leading the development and implementation of the overall supply chain management and procurement strategies of Blue Origin. This position will lead and oversee the development of supply chain management processes, procurement and sourcing, and cost and service level agreements strategies to support various spaceflight programs. This includes overall procurement planning, subcontract and supplier evaluation and selection, input to make/buy decisions, purchasing strategy, regular reporting of procurement status and forecasting, and involvement in negotiations. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable spaceflight.

Responsibilities:

Develop procurement strategies that meets company performance objectives and customer expectations.

Optimize data acquisition systems to ensure delivery of supplies and improve supply chain metrics and KPI’s.

Partner closely with the Finance organization on cost metrics and the Contracts group on the structure of contracts with suppliers.

Execute a centralized procurement commitment to P&Ls and Functional organizations.

Organize activities of supply chain managers and buyers to ensure alignment with program schedule and cost strategy.

Support business on purchasing strategy to achieve efficient logistics and a reliable, low cost sourcing strategy.

Coordinate the development of purchasing strategy that takes into account lower lead times, optimal process flow, and reduced overall supply chain costs.

Manage and coordinate the details of procurement contracts to establish consistency of operations. This includes supplier selection, RFPs, fact-finding and negotiation processes.

Track and monitor the status of procurements from PO through delivery and lead the resolution of procurement priority conflicts and critical supplier issues.

As a leader at Blue Origin, you will build and manage a world-class team, including developing resource plans and profiles, authoring job descriptions, conducting interviews, making hiring recommendations, assigning tasks, supporting career development and conducting performance reviews.

Qualifications:

Passion for our mission: Millions of people living and working in space!

BS or MS degree or equivalent experience with emphasis in Supply Chain Management and progressive responsibility increases

Experience with COTS and commodity specific procurement

Experience leading, managing and growing a geography diverse team on fast-paced projects

Demonstrated experience leading organizations through large-scale change management initiatives that influence culture, define tools & processes and improve competencies

Highly effective and professional verbal and written communication skills with team, internal customers and suppliers that includes a strong focus on teamwork and internal/external customer satisfaction

Demonstrated ability to work cross functionally within a geographically disperse organization.

An attitude of world-class mission assurance, quality, attention to detail, and dedication.

Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degree

Experience with aerospace procurement

Applied experiences in Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma and Toyota Production System

Experience with Earned Value Management (EVM)

Experience with ERP systems in a manufacturing environment

Blue Origin offers a phenomenal work environment and awesome culture with competitive compensation, benefits, 401K, and relocation.

Blue Origin is an  equal opportunity employer . In addition to EEO being the law, it is a policy that is fully consistent with Blue's principles. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to status as a protected veteran or a qualified individual with a disability, or other protected status such as race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, pregnancy or age. Blue Origin prohibits any form of workplace harassment.

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About Us Blue Origin was founded with a vision to enable a future where millions of people are living and working in space to benefit Earth. In order to preserve Earth, Blue Origin believes in the need to enable humanity to expand, explore, find new energy and material resources, and move industries that stress Earth into space. Blue Origin believes it has an important role in building a road to space and lowering the cost of getting there. At Blue Origin, we’re working on this today by developing fully reusable launch vehicles and systems that are safe, reliable and affordable. Every launch vehicle is designed for human spaceflight from the beginning and able to ferry payloads to space.

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