Material Program Manager

Job Summary

Outstanding opportunity to join Leonardo DRS as a Material Program Manager. With a focus on material forecasting to meet program requirements and organizational financial goals, this position will work closely with a team of supply chain, engineering, and program management to deploy procurement and inventory strategies, be responsible for product change and associated material planning implications, manage, and solve exceptions, and work with purchasing to drive supplier execution.  This role involves critical monitoring and management of supply and constraints, status reporting and escalation, supplier engagement and the relentless pursuit of operation excellence and continuous improvement.

The ideal candidate must understand program level schedule, cost, and business requirements, integrate into a cohesive direction to a material planning organization, and supply chain function (ensuring timely and high integrity proposals, planning of materials). In addition, you must understand the critical aspects of production material demand planning and scheduling of a project and experience in the overall proposal and procurement process in a DoD environment.  

Job Responsibilities

• Manage and direct the material financial plan for assigned programs to meet organizational goals.


• Support meetings and the integrated product and/or project team from kick-off through project close.


• Serves as the liaison between the Program Managers, IPTs and the Supply Chain organization.


• Participate as a team member on bid and proposal activities. Ensure that the financial requirements are met in the preparation and documentation of bids and proposals.


• Prepare for and participate in contract/subcontract negotiations. While representing Company’s interests, assure that all government regulatory guidance is adhered to.


• Develop and implement plans and schedules to execute contracts/subcontracts. Allocate and control contract budgets for material and purchased services. Regularly report program status to management. 


• Formally identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate risk throughout the program life cycle. Obtains management approval prior to making decisions that will cause deterioration of established program, cost, and schedule objectives.


• May be required to ensure the overall execution of material on schedule and on budget for assigned programs.


• Perform variance analysis of material schedule and cost on a formal and informal basis and present them to management.


• Guiding multiple functions on developing Supplier Long Term Agreements.


• Represent the Supply Chain organization on policies, strategies, and objectives.
  
   

Job Responsibilities Part II

• Oversee supply chain activities needed to ensure program compliance.


• May provide leadership to program or project team. Assures communication and cooperation among team members and resolves areas of conflict. 


• Ensure a timely closeout of completed programs.


• May partner with various stakeholders on planning process and system improvements. 


• Develop and understand principles of material program planning. Broad application of principles, theories, and concepts in applicable discipline, plus working knowledge of other related fields.


• Develop and understand cash flow management principles. 


• Develop and understand principles of process improvement (i.e., Lean Six Sigma).


• Support, communicate, reinforce, and defend the mission, values and culture of the organization.

• 3+ year in DoD program and/or materials management and in production manufacturing operation utilizing MRP/ERP depending upon the job discipline preferred. 
• Knowledge of DoD FAR procurement regulations preferred.
• Knowledge of MRP/ERP with a solid understanding of electro-mechanical assembly operations, bills of material, demand material planning, and the supply chain purchasing process is preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain or Business degree may be preferred or equivalent combination of education and experience depending upon the job discipline.
• Knowledge of program management tools and procedures.
• Solid leadership and management skills.
• Exposure to the program lifecycle or components of development through sustainment to include proposal development, requirements decomposition, generation of system and subsystem statements of work and subcontracts, risk management, and continuous improvement efforts including implementation cost reduction and performance improvement efforts.
• Exposure to the earned value cost accounting and reporting; experience with metrics for assessing and reporting program progress, productivity, and variance analysis.
• Exposure to finance, contracting, export regulations, engineering, logistics, manufacturing, and supply chain management.
• Strong customer interface skills.
• Solid problem-solving skills.
• Strong presentation skills.
• Demonstrated knowledge of specific discipline.
• Ability to manage aerospace/defense programs as a prime or subcontractor to a domestic or foreign military organization.   
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Program Management certification preferred (i.e., PMP or DAU).
• Ability to work in Dallas-Ft Worth or Melbourne, FL preferred.