Supplier Development Lead – Midwest
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Supplier Development Lead at Pratt & Whitney driving operational excellence and process compliance within the supply base. Supporting key suppliers in resolving critical issues with a focus on quality and delivery.
Responsibilities:
- drive operational excellence and process compliance within the supply base through on site visits and assessments.
- help key suppliers in the resolution of significant issues that are likely to have a business-wide impact by working cross functionally with Purchasing, Engineering, Quality and Operations leadership.
- coordinate and resolve company/department wide risks/obstacles to ensure manufacturing, supply chain, and delivery schedules are aligned with customer needs.
- responsible for reporting key suppliers’ progress to operational initiatives at executive reviews with senior level leadership, both internal and external.
- drives improvement of on time delivery and quality performance at multiple suppliers.
- develop and drive quality improvement plans.
- coordinates root cause identification and corrective actions.
- leads onsite assessments with Buyers, Quality, and Engineering teams to drive overall supplier improvement.
- identifies and removes significant barriers to the implementation of CI for suppliers to improve on-time delivery and quality.
- evaluates key supplier performance and applies sustainable counter measures and actions to facilitate improvement.
- directs production readiness assessments for New Product Introduction and rate increases, including capacity confirmation to ensure a timely ramp-up to production volumes with a business wide impact.
- oversee the monitoring of critical business wide metrics and the coordination of cross-functional work teams to significantly increase effectiveness of supply chain initiatives.
- engages the senior management of key suppliers to initiate appropriate major improvement programs to achieve and sustain high levels of performance.
- plans, organizes, directs and reports all activities and matters relating to supplier performance.
- evaluates supplier performance, management, capacity and production readiness.
- assesses supplier qualifications including training and certifications.
- elaborates supplier development plans and works in collaboration with the supplier to ensure best performance is achieved.
Requirements:
- Bachelors Degree in Supply chain, Business Management, or related field and 8 years of experience in Operations, Quality, and/or Continuous Improvement roles; or an advanced degree with 5 years of experience.
- U.S. Citizen - U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.
- Reside within the Midwest, USA area (IL, IN, IA, KS, MI, MN, MO, NE, ND, OH SD, WI)
Benefits:
- medical
- dental
- vision
- life insurance
- short-term disability
- long-term disability
- 401(k) match
- flexible spending accounts
- flexible work schedules
- employee assistance program
- Employee Scholar Program
- parental leave
- paid time off
- holidays


















