Supply Chain/Procurement Leader - Complex Electronics and Controlled Goods

at  PVLabs

SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES THAT ARE IMPORTANT:

• Understanding what happens without a relationship with new vendors, and how to build them effectively.
• Not being an order-taker. Your decisions and input, experience and perspective will be counted on for helping us grow at a critical point in our companys evolution.
• You need to be comfortable making informed decisions and being transparent about it.
• Advanced knowledge of the flow-down of customer contractual requirements to Supplier contract terms and conditions, and the general extended value stream/flow of value from suppliers to final customers.
• Able to identify areas of greatest opportunity to minimize waste/manage cost and increase customer value.
• A good understanding of Controlled Goods-regulated components and their impact on supply chain and inventory management.
• Strong understanding of finance/accounting and managing working capital limitations.
• Exceptional organizational, analytical, communication, negotiation and relationship building/management skills.
• Demonstrated leadership in negotiating high-value and long-term agreements.
• Ability to prioritize daily issues and strategize longer-term projects.
• Comfortable with, or ability to thrive in an NPI-driven engineering organization where competing priorities happen.
• Naturally curious, diplomatic, and innovative.

EXPERIENCES THAT ARE IMPORTANT

• CSCP, SCMP or APICS (or similar) accreditation, combined with a degree/diploma in a business-related discipline
• 10+ years’ progressive experience in a Procurement/Materials related role within a complex engineering-focused, electronics or discrete technology product focused environment.
• Experience with supply chain management with multi-geography suppliers and assembly sites.
• Experience with electronics/mechatronics manufacturing, assembly and logistics.
• Track record of applying solid data with finance & accounting fundamentals (ie: common sense) to the overall supply chain management ecosystem.Familiarity with inventory management and supply chain conditions borne from international offset agreements.

ABOUT THE ROLE

PVLabs is seeking Supply Chain/Procurement Manager to join our team at a critical time in our organizations evolution, to help build and mature a competitive, efficient and reliable supply chain ecosystem.
This is not your typical, stay-in-your-lane Supply Chain role. Instead, its a multi-disciplinary role that is essential to all aspects of Materials Management, Procurement, MRP/ERP integrity and Inventory Management for materials and components ranging from complex machined parts to circuit-card assemblies, electro-optical assemblies and sub-assemblies and more. Its also about working with new vendors, and alongside our engineering teams - helping them get up to speed on what were building, the tolerances associated with the manufacturing process and minimizing waste.
With PVLabs being well underway with our transitioning from an innovative engineering company with a product to a multi-variant, airborne sensor systems product company backed by innovative engineering the Supply Chain/Procurement Manager at PVLabs will take a clean-slate approach to defining and leading the supply chain, procurement, pricing/costing, supplier-management, production planning/scheduling and logistics, allowing you to apply your own unique signature on how to build a supply chain function that makes the most sense with the least bureaucracy and solve complex problems with significant business impact.
If that weren’t enough we’ve added layer of “that’s cool” with having implemented a slick new ERP System that isn’t monolithic but instead agile, as well as leveraging a localization-partner ecosystem who will build our systems in-country meaning the procurement and supply chain framework is a truly global entity despite our small size.

ABOUT THE RESPONSIBILITIES

Obviously, some typical Supply Chain/Procurement Management fundamentals will anchor the roles responsibilities, including the following are the back-of-the-hand’ things we should all know like:

• Finding efficiencies in Order Management (including Engineering BOM management), Demand Planning/Management, Procurement/Sourcing, Materials/Inventory Management and Distribution & Logistics.
• Oversee materials/parts activities to contribute to the successful timing of manufacturing our systems to meet schedule requirements for on time Customer deliveries.
• Lead Purchasing, Supplier Management, Production Planning/Scheduling, Inventory Management and Logistics.
• Facilitate early engagement between our local/global Suppliers and Engineering team to drive manufacturability, repeatability, cost, and lead time improvements.

What PVLabs is seeking, in addition to the basics, is an objective supply-chain thinker who can look at an opportunity or a problem from several perspectives and co-create solutions that makes sense for both now and the future. Someone who can understand the what if about procurement, the downstream business impacts to a decision, and solving for issues before they arise by removing limits on current or conventional thinking.