Procurement Agent

Boeing • Everett, WA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) is looking for a Senior Supply Chain Operations Procurement Agent (Level 4) to join our Seat Integration Team (SIT) in Everett, Washington. The Seat Integration Supply Chain Operations team is growing and looking for procurement agents to work with suppliers and airlines around the world in developing, building, and delivering commercial airplane seating. As a Senior Operations Procurement Agent you will have the opportunity to work complex seat developmental programs and interact with Suppliers and Airlines around the world, as well as with several key organizations across BCA. This is a high visibility role that requires critical and creative thinking, application of risk and issues management, ability to interact at various levels across internal and external stakeholders, flexibility to support meetings and communication across time zones, as well as international or domestic travel for up to 25% of your time. The right candidate will have very strong program management, communication and interpersonal skills, as well as ability to quickly adapt in ever changing dynamic situations and work independently with minimum supervision.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Procurement and Supply Chain processes
• 5+ years of experience working with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• 5+ years of experience with multi-tasking (i.e., handling daily work, urgent emerging issues, and phone call requests, etc.)
• 5+ years of experience with project/program management
• Must be able to travel domestically and internationally as needed (approximately 25%)

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of experience in aerospace or manufacturing industry
• Bachelor’s Degree or higher

Responsibilities

• Communicates performance expectations and metrics to evaluate and monitor supplier performance
• Work development programs to support airline requests and airplane deliveries
• Manage supply and demand, schedules, supplier quality, delivery and financial performance
• Communicate performance expectations and metrics to our suppliers to evaluate and monitor supplier performance
• Manage supplier production readiness for entry into service
• Conduct risk, issues and opportunities management
• Consults with cross-functional stakeholders to resolve supplier performance issues
• Initiate and implement supplier recovery and improvement activities and manage mitigation plans
• Gather and maintain data related to suppliers’ products portfolio
• Partner with suppliers and internal Boeing organizations to develop recommendations on project based offerability of seats to airlines customers
• Facilitate communication and early engagement with airline customers and suppliers to establish seats selection for new Programs
• Perform system transactions, data entry, prepares and presents technical information as needed
• Provide analysis, propose solutions and manage expectations for solutions to meet Customer and Airplane Program requirements as necessary

Benefits

• health insurance
• flexible spending accounts
• health savings accounts
• retirement savings plans
• life and disability insurance programs
• paid and unpaid time away from work

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior