Global Commodity Strategy Leader (m/f) - Airfoils (Compressor Blades)

Job Description Summary Project Management/ Planning/ Coordinating activities typically in the context of a production or services project to fulfill a customer order or need according to financial/commercial parameters and ensuring customer satisfaction. Impacts the team’s ability to achieve service, quality and timeliness of objectives. The role is subject to operating policy objectives. There is moderate autonomy within the role. High levels of operational judgment are required to achieve outcomes required.Job Description

Role Summary: This key role will be responsible for shaping and optimizing all aspects of the Global Airfoils Supply Chain for Gas Turbines and Steam Turbines as part of the massive Next Gen Supply Chain initiative. Specifically, this role involves ideating, leading and driving specific high-level make vs buy commodity strategy decisions including the optimal locations of value chains for customer impact, the technologies and inventory strategies to optimize cost and lead time, securing safety, quality and fulfilment, the investment profile, and the subsequent net-recurring business impact. This leader will lead, foster and drive collaboration of global cross-functional teams including factories, sourcing, P2V, services, materials, commercial, quality, product line, and engineering to continue to deliver high impact via key GSC Board decisions and subsequent execution on a governing overall part-family commodity strategy. The critical deliverables are the business KPIs of Safety, Quality, Fulfilment, Landed Cost, Lead Time, Cash, Investment, Liquidation, P&L impact and NPV payback using specific make-buy tools to evaluate and drive a decision. In addition, the role will be actively involved in the new technology introduction cycles collaborating with Commercial, Services, Product Line and Engineering to ensure that our future value streams can deliver competitive value and provide flexibility to support the overall product strategy of the business.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a customer-centric commodity strategy for the Global supply chain that is optimized around SQDC driven value streams for maximum supply chain velocity using the established product family strategy
• Recommend new much-needed shifts to the established product family strategy
• Work collaboratively with team members, stakeholders and leaders in P2V, Services, Materials, Sourcing, Factories, Product Line, Industrialization, and Engineering to pull together cross-functional evaluations and solutions.
• Perform detailed, process mapping of global value chains, factories and supplier core competencies, capabilities and capacities.
• Run a data-driven comprehensive Make vs Buy analysis and lead the decision-making across key cross-functional partners on the critical KPIs.
• Evaluate any change to a currently established structure (make to a make or make to a buy) or introduction of new breakthrough structures of the value chain.
• Focus on inventory strategies in conjunction with services and commercial to optimize lead time
• Focus on simplification of value chains by combining and consolidating routers and number of supply locations
• Detailed analysis of Global Footprint to optimize and consolidate
• Formulate recommendations with the joint team and bring to an SCSRB Gate Reviews (Supply Chain Strategy Review Board) – Senior leadership reviews to make and memorialize decisions
• Ensure rigor around SCSRB Gate Reviews: Gate 1-4 to ensure sustainability of decisions
• Drive allocation strategy for the business in line with SQDC
• Level 1 Project management of any transfers or other critical initiatives
• Ensure alignment of supply chain capabilities and capacity with product design and delivery requirements
• Ensure technology preparation of the supply chain in conjunction with Industrialization, engineering and understand the impact of cost-curves to technology curves to lead an analysis to the optimal deployment strategy.
• As required, conduct and support negotiations with suppliers to execute strategy
• As required, support development and sharing of forecast and demand plan
• As required, run cross-functional fulfilment projects for special cases like supplier exits

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college, or equivalent experience.
• Several years of overall experience in supply chain or analysis pertaining to this or similar commodity, commodity management, cost out, materials, fulfilment, demand planning, lean, lead time, financial analysis, cost, sourcing or factory operations roles.

Desired Characteristics:

• Ability to act with humility: embrace culture of respect and active listening with a diverse team
• Ability to lead with transparency: embrace candor; share information to solve problems; develop team members
• Ability to deliver with focus: put safety first; prioritize and maximize impact; continuously improve processes while measuring success from the eyes of our customers.

• Understanding of upper-level macro product line and commercial strategies
• Understanding commodity decisions, supply chain value streams, product
• Demonstrated aptitude for developing and executing supply chain strategy on something similar
• Ability to run basic cost, payback and NPV analysis
• Understanding of business KPIs and analysis of curves of operational improvement to technical pivots
• Understanding of demand planning, material transfers, transfers dynamics and allocations/cut-ins
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal, influencing and leadership skills.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects.
• Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs.
• Established project management skills.

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