Title: Material Management Leader
Location: Southfield, MI
Duration: Long Term Contract
Education: BA in business, logistics, supply chain, or engineering
Experience: Minimum of 3-5 years of purchasing and/or material management experience
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Identify Early Opportunities in proposals and estimating and/or hand-off from sales phase
- Identify High Risk Suppliers in proposals and estimating and/or hand-off from sales phase
- Support Unique Proposal Requirements
- Push Information to purchasing commodity teams for action or strategy development
- Responsible to drive and coordinate advanced procurement / forecasting information from the project team to commodity purchasing
- Work with project team to develop robust SOWs and capture all customer requirements
- Review project specs and communicate to appropriate Buyers
- Develop, Drive & Control Project Sourcing Plans
- Communicate Scope, Timing & Budget to Commodity Teams
- Single point of contact with the project teams for material status – MMLs will communicate with follow-up coordinators for material status by supplier
- Support Timeline Development for purchasing related activities ensuring adequate lead time for purchasing activities
- Purchasing Timeline Updates/Reporting for one line meetings
- Periodically attend customer meetings and whiteboards to provide material status updates
- Support PPRs (project performance reviews)
- Support with purchasing EAC (Estimate at Complete)/CTC (Cost to Complete)
- Identify purchasing Risk & Opps
- Steer Project, Purchasing & SQ teams to focus on top priorities
- Intimate involvement in high impact purchasing, follow up or quality actions (Recovery Plans, Cost Recovery, Large Purchases, High risk Purchases)
- Work with design to resolve issues as it relates to purchase material
- Work with site teams to develop material/service support plan (POU Material/Vendor Managed Inventory)
- Lead any critical supplier material or service issues identified by site
- Attends both Project Review Dry Runs and Project Reviews for their primary platform(s)
Skills:
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong problem solving capabilities
- Ability to work within a team-based environment
- Ability to execute to a plan
- Committed and dedicated to the success of a program
- Strong working knowledge of local supply base
- Fair working knowledge of global supply base
- Expansive working knowledge on multiple commodities
- Fair financial management skills
- Clear understanding of project timelines
- Microsoft office (Excel, Word, Power Point) – Advanced skills required
- Strong working knowledge of project based organizations
- Strong collaborative skills with suppliers and internal team members
- Appetite for accountability
- Strong understanding of budgeting and forecasting (financially on the project and with the supply base)
- Ability to multi-task and work from remote locations
- SAP Experience
- Project Management Experience
Tata Technologies is a company dedicated to bringing better products to market for our customers and to the millions of people around the world who benefit from them. We are a leading Global provider of engineering services, serving the world’s leading manufacturing companies. We offer a complete benefits package, including; medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, FMLA and 401K.
We are currently expanding our Engineering footprint with several of our clients and have opportunities for those who are the best in their field. If you are looking to join a company that values their employees, stands behind their services and strives to make product development dreams a reality, look no further.
Tata Technologies Inc. is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, citizenship status, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, compensation, benefits, training, termination, promotions, or any other condition of employment or career development.
