Program Manager

• Leverage expertise in Engineering, Manufacturing Operations, Purchasing and Quality to plan, design, and optimize outsourced manufacturing
• Identify, recommend, and implement tactics to ensure minimum risk and maximum scale in support of the company’s strategic growth plan
• Develop long-term improvement strategies with suppliers
• Validate and collaborate with suppliers on proposals for improvement, support investment cases, and manage implementation
• Focus on driving supplier improvements in production through automation and other techniques
• Develop a beneficial partnership model with suppliers based on continuous improvement methodologies that yield increased quality, cost, and service improvements
• Assess supply chain risks, develop risk mitigation strategies and identify new suppliers as required by ongoing and future business needs
• Program management of supplier’s change notifications, including but not limited to manufacturing transfers
• Serve as key operations liaison for the selection/qualification of new suppliers
• Develop scorecards and lead ongoing supplier performance reviews
• Collaborate with Design and Quality Engineering functions to investigate and resolve quality or compliance issues at suppliers
• Review and approve supplier documentation such as Standard Operating Procedures, Critical to Quality characteristics and Control Plans, and Work Instructions
• Key stakeholder in early supplier involvement efforts, Design for Manufacturability (DFM), Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), and is the key liaison between design engineering and the contract manufacturing supply chain
• Develop and maintain a technology and capacity roadmap that aligns with the company’s New Product Development timeline and future revenue growth
• Provide and solicit input from internal and external stakeholders for design, manufacturing, material specifications, and manufacturing procedures to ensure that the resulting products can be adequately manufactured and tested
• Develop, write, and control detailed work instructions
• Ensure all parties understand the direction, and status of all meetings, projects, and development
• Utilize metrics, dashboards, and standard reports to communicate status updates

Supplier Base Program Manager

Principal Specialist, Material Program Manager