Supply Chain Program Manager, Global Procurement Organization

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The Global Procurement Launch and Expansion (GPLE) team manages the flow of materials to new or expanding sites by monitoring and mitigating supply risks. Our Supply Chain Program Manager role will work with various functional partners to make sure that items and equipment are ordered and delivered to sites just in time. The role will also create and review processes and continuously improve them.

• Key job responsibilities
• - Be accountable for ensuring risks and escalations are mitigated to meet launch program timelines for new site launches and expansions in the network.
• - Serve as the interface between vendors, procurement, and the business to track, monitor and control procurement project plans.
• - Optimize the Supply Chain via deep dive and strategically identifying processes and tools to reduce manual effort, optimize costs and improve data visibility.
• - Execute continuous improvement initiatives and alignment in the region, through implementation of best practices, standardization of project execution and governance that deliver long-term value to internal customers.
• - Collaborate with suppliers and establish monitoring processes, where applicable, to ensure timely deliveries and quality compliance.
• - Manage multiple, competing projects and priorities simultaneously.
• - Travel up to 25% domestically and internationally.

• About the team
• GPLE is a global function within GPO that enables the on-time launch of new sites, expansions, and retrofits, by ensuring non-inventory materials are planned for, ordered and delivered in full, and services are mobilized on-time, whilst managing a high level of ambiguity due to differing needs that span across multiple stakeholder organizations.

Basic qualifications

• - 3+ years of program or project management experience
• - 3+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience
• - 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience
• - 3+ years of supply chain experience
• - Bachelor's degree
• - Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL
• - Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
• - Experience in English-language communication skills, both written and verbal

Preferred qualifications

• - 3+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience
• - 3+ years of driving process improvements experience
• - Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
• - Experience building processes, project management, and schedules
• - Experience in communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal in Portuguese & English

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