Senior Purchasing Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead, train and coach new team members, setting clear priorities to ensure high quality deliverables
• Assist PPMs in resolving roadblocks and/or finding creative solutions to resolve issues
• Identify continuous-improvement opportunities to improve speed, quality, and repeatability, and reporting to analytics templates
• Program management responsibilities for Truck/Wrangler/Hemi specific vehicle program variants, including Serial Life related activities
• Ownership of all timing, capacity, business impact of supplier-related contributions to Heavy Duty Truck and Light Commercial Van segments development and execution across full NA scope
• Close coordination with ongoing cost actions to drive efficiencies and optimization of Serial Life production cost as well as next-generation cost input into Planning process
• Preparation and input into Governance decision processes, including those that have direct level exposure to Senior Leadership (inc. NA and SLT members)
• Facilitate working sessions to drive efficiencies by sharing best practices and lessons learned
• Drive first level of escalation for vehicle product sourcing through direct engagement with engineering program management colleagues, leading yellow enablers
• Report out to executive leadership on purchasing metrics (cost/timing/readiness/capacity) to support vehicle program metrics