Supply Chain Analyst

Draper

Supply Chain Analyst supporting sourcing and business objectives for Draper’s product categories. Navigating a complex supply chain while building strong supplier relationships.

Posted 5/13/2026full-timeCambridge • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $82,300 - $220,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ERPOracleReact

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Proactively works collaboratively with internal program teams, quality, contracts, and other functional areas to understand unique supply chain needs to support customer, program, and commodity strategies.
Source and evaluate supplier quotes, select, and recommend suppliers and negotiate price, delivery, quality, service, and most competitive solution.
Identifies and realizes cost savings and reduction opportunities, gains alignment with finance and internal stakeholders for these wins, and actively tracks post event actual savings obtained.
Work closely with the program offices, quality and the larger procurement team and act as the primary point of contact for program specific suppliers.
Assist in pricing and maintaining Bill of Materials changes as relates to baseline and estimate to complete.
Ability to review and understand contractual requirements and facilitates supplier business relationships to ensure contractual requirements, performance, obligations and expectations are met.
Understand and interpret contract changes.
Proactively engage with suppliers to resolve issues and negotiate lead time improvement and other advantages for Draper.
Works closely with the program teams during the proposal phase to support supply chain and contractual requirements and compliance.
Provide analysis on cost and schedule performance.
Works closely with the program team and quality in the development of the Bill of Materials (BOM), to include supplier sourcing and obtaining the necessary documentation to ensure compliance and advise on material selection based on supplier performance and risk assessments.
Successfully negotiates Long Term Agreements (LTA) to ensure continual contractual coverage and drives cost savings.
Stay up to date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and regulatory changes that may impact supply chain risk management practices.
Manages respective PO data, maintenance in MRP/ERP environment, and works in partnership with AP to resolve invoice/payment discrepancies.
Acts as liaison with the material planner, supplier management and accounts payable to ensure data integrity of purchased components, suppliers and payment terms in ERP system.
Negotiates and settles with suppliers regarding damage claims, rejections, losses, return of materials, over shipments, cancellations, and engineering changes.
Monitors, tracks, and updates order status and is the primary contact to support schedule.
Other supply chain related tasks as necessary to include, but not limited to, logistics and inventory support.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain management, or related field
5-7 years of defense contracting experience within a supply chain role
Working knowledge of government contracting, FAR/DFARS acquisition requirements and related clauses
Significant ERP System Experience (Oracle, SAP, Other)
In-depth knowledge of manufacturing process
Ability to analyze, react, and train on exceptions in MRP, especially around Bills of Material, Material Planning, Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders
Requires strong written, oral, communication and presentation skills
Able to handle multiple projects simultaneously

Benefits

Comp & perks

Workplace flexibility
Employee clubs ranging from photography to yoga
Health and finance workshops
Off site social events
Discounts to local museums and cultural activities

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Hard Skills & Tools

supply chain managementcost analysiscontract negotiationBill of Materials (BOM)material planningpurchase requisitionspurchase ordersgovernment contractingFAR/DFARS complianceERP systems

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationpresentationproblem-solvingnegotiationorganizational skillsanalytical skillstime managementstakeholder alignmenttraining