Position Purpose:
This position is a Functional Project Manager in the area of Sourcing. The Functional Project Manager is accountable for the planning, directing, and execution of local and/or global projects. The Functional Project Manager is responsible to direct the project team to achieve project deliverables including contractual and business objectives while ensuring satisfaction and QDRC.
Essential Functions:
Tactical Responsibility:
- Coordinate/lead multiple projects of med-high complexity, multiple sub-projects, and/or cross location
- Lead and present project updates for management reviews, provide written updates, and status reports
- Drives risk management process
- Drives schedule performance to meet commitment dates
- Plans, reviews, and improves project cost
- Drives total cost of ownership processes
- Project resource management
- Manages across business and departments outside of specific functional area to break down barriers that may prevent project success
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Strategic Responsibility:
- Presents and represents project status to customer and Woodward managers
- Participates in enterprise trade-offs between projects
- Provide mentoring and consultation to other project managers
- Participate in strategic planning/profit planning processes
- Accountable for scope change management: responsible to orchestrate with the accountable leaders and team to be responsive to customers, project schedule, and deliverables
- Evaluate and implement continuous improvement. May include authoring documents and standards
- Coordinates project activity with appropriate leaders, team members, and customers
Other Essential Functions:
- Evaluate and drive implementation and maintenance of appropriate project management tools
- May also provide support in other business activities
- Coordinates with Supplier Manager to act as the primary point of contact for the project
- Accountable for Global Sourcing Part Transition process compliance through 109
- Assure supplier development, inventory transition planning, contractual alignment (POs and LTA)
- Leverage all Global Sourcing groups to minimize total investment
- Participate in commodity strategy development
- Collaborate with engineering and the COE to assure security of supply, high quality, competitively priced components
- Lead project gate reviews
- Provide support and assist in supplier approval process
- Performs Project Management role/coordination for limited Quality Management activities for multiple facilities
- Drives and coordinates CACs and CABs. Trains and coaches others for CACs and CABs
Knowledge Skills & Abilities:
- Good knowledge of project management tools (specifically MS Project, Work Breakdown Structure).
- Proficient understanding of Woodwards Key business processes and metrics
- Good knowledge and demonstrated execution of the part transition process
- Good knowledge of strategic sourcing principles, supplier relationship management, and commercial management
- Knowledge and experience with core global sourcing business processes and systems
Experience:
- Experience in specific functional area (Sourcing)
- Project Management
License & Certifications:
- PMP (Project Management Professional) certification or international equivalent
PMP Certification added advantage.
