New Product Development Manager - Supply Chain Job Listing at HDT Global in Geneva, OH (Job ID c668c24f-7632-4361-8c77-8532fbd22d27)

Description

Join the team that is a leader in engineering, designing and manufacturing of leading-edge military expeditionary products and rugged industrial/commercial products since 1937.

Essential Duties:

• Manages the SCM function for the project and BOM from Quote through FAI stage
• Accepts and scrutinizes supplier bids and proposals and ensures competitive cost
• Determines expected lead time and develops a schedule with critical milestones identified, providing regular report outs to ensure supplier meets the schedule
• Selects/develops sources based upon analysis ensuring the use of the current suppliers which are determined in the sourcing strategy by the commodity team
• Provides direction regarding print/design review/technical publication, interpretation, source selection, price and terms negotiation for new products
• Monitors short and long term material requirement needs, develops and implements effective plans to assure material availability and capacity at selected supplier
• Maintains product costs within established goals for each component and overall BOM
• Maintains an in-depth working knowledge of computerized manufacturing systems: SAP, ERP, Bill of Material structure, Kanban, JIT and Lean Manufacturing concepts
• Actively works to develop new qualified and cost effective sources of supply when a new service, process or component is identified. This also applies to new strategic low cost country initiatives gaining support and buy-in from the commodity managers
• Ensures each BOM is loaded correctly into SAP
• Manages approval process for new suppliers including Annual Reps & Certs
• Small Business Plan Development and Adherence
• Develops BOM tracking for each and every part (schedule), publishes monthly reports showing on or behind schedule and parts in risk (delivery and cost)

Education/Experience/Other Skills & Abilities:

• Minimum of Bachelor's degree Business, Operation, Supply Chain or related field. Master's or MBA preferred
• 5-7 years SCM experience in a manufacturing environment.  Aerospace or Defense preferred
• 3-4 years Global Business managing programmatic NPD
• Experience in effective implementation of all inventory planning, forecasting and replenishment activities, including the development of metrics to track and improve performance
• Ability to work in a cross-functional area to identify solutions to manufacturing and project issues
• Strong organizational, tactical/strategic thinking and effective communication skills
• Experience with ERP systems (SAP preferred, but not required) 

* Requires US Citizenship. The applicant must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance.  An active Secret clearance is preferred by not required.