Supply Chain Project Manager

Position Purpose:

Essential Functions:

• Tactical Responsibility: Coordinate/lead multiple projects of med-high complexity, multiple sub-projects, and/or cross location
• Strategic Responsibility: Presents and represents project status to customer and Woodward managers
• Strategic Responsibility: Participates in enterprise trade-offs between projects
• Strategic Responsibility: Provide mentoring and consultation to lower level project managers
• Strategic Responsibility: Participate in strategic planning/profit planning processes
• Strategic Responsibility: Accountable for scope change management: responsible to orchestrate with the accountable leaders and team to be responsive to customers, project schedule, and deliverables
• Strategic Responsibility: Evaluate and implement continuous improvement. May include authoring documents and standards
• Tactical Responsibility: Lead and present project updates for management reviews, provide written updates, and status reports
• Tactical Responsibility: Drives risk management process
• Tactical Responsibility: Drives schedule performance to meet commitment dates
• Tactical Responsibility: Plans, reviews, and improves project cost
• Tactical Responsibility: Drives total cost of ownership processes
• Tactical Responsibility: Project resource management
• Tactical Responsibility: Manages across business and departments outside of specific functional area to break down barriers that may prevent project success
• Strategic Responsibility: 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
• In Sourcing, may perform: Coordinates with Supplier Manager to act as the primary point of contact for the project
• In Sourcing, may perform: Accountable for Global Sourcing Part Transition process compliance through 109
• In Sourcing, may perform: Assure supplier development, inventory transition planning, contractual alignment (PO's and LTA)
• In Sourcing, may perform: Leverage all Global Sourcing groups to minimize total investment
• In Sourcing, may perform: Participate in commodity strategy development
• In Sourcing, may perform: Collaborate with engineering and the COE to assure security of supply, high quality, competitively priced components
• In Sourcing, may perform: Lead project gate reviews
• In Sourcing, may perform: Provide support and assist in supplier approval process
  

Knowledge Skills & Abilities:

• Good knowledge of project management tools (specifically MS Project, Work Breakdown Structure).
• Proficient understanding of Woodward's Key business processes and metrics
• In Sourcing: Good knowledge and demonstrated execution of the part transition process
• In Sourcing: Good knowledge of strategic sourcing principles, supplier relationship management, and commercial management
• In Sourcing: Knowledge and experience with core global sourcing business processes and systems
  

Education:

• US Master's degree in Arts/Sciences (MA/MS)
• US Bachelor's Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS)
  

Experience:

• Experience in specific functional area (Quality, Sourcing, Manufacturing)
• Project Management
  

License & Certifications:

• PMP (Project Management Professional) certification or international equivalent
• For Manufacturing/Sourcing: Six Sigma Green Belt certification
• For Quality: Achieve and maintain Six Sigma Green Belt certification