Project Management Managers – Supply Chain Planning #SC050

Cummins•Ladson, SC

About The Position

Manage supply chain project management activities by coordinating, prioritizing, negotiating, and managing execution of all project tasks and contracts. Ensure that the supply chain has established processes, paths to market lanes, logistics routes, packaging designs, and is compliant with global trade requirements such as USMCA. Lead the analysis, project identification, budget, communication, and integration for multiple complex supply chain projects. Facilitate project planning sessions with Supply Chain Planners and key internal stakeholders to determine the scope and objectives of each supply chain project, design project plans, develop timelines, identify project milestones, and track performance against performance goals and timelines. Plan and monitor project budget, conduct comprehensive supply chain research and analysis including analyzing the existing Supply chain path to markets, costs, and finding improvement initiatives, creating reporting for leadership to make strategic decisions, and providing input into the design and development of logistics project plans and timelines. Compare supply chain, purchasing, logistics, and manufacturing strategies, by analyzing the cost of manufacturing, logistics, tariff, Duty, and packaging and creating an optimized holistic supply chain plan. Manage project risk using quality tools to identify areas of risk from new product introduction, defining risks, defining plans to avoid risks, outlining the cost of risks, and presenting risk to leadership to help improve risk avoidance, as well as working with other Supply Chain Specialists to identify alternatives or solutions. Utilize a Value Package Profile (VPP) and other scope-defining documents to manage change during complex supply chain projects, lead supply chain project launches, and manage the connections between multiple levels of scope detailed in related additional technical documents. Develop, understand and improve necessary supply chain Key Performance Indicators involving Inventory measures, USMCA, Supplier Delivery, System Settings, and Accuracy. Conduct complex analytical problem solving to effectively solve supply chain problems, considering trade compliance, global supply chains, macroeconomics, and logistical challenges. Collaborate with supply chain and logistics teams to integrate logistics with business systems or processes, such as order management or shipping, and direct distribution center operation to ensure achievement of cost, productivity, accuracy, or timeliness objectives. Analyze operational trends and develop corrective action plans. Utilize advanced knowledge of supply chain, logistics, and operations in order to advance the organization’s supply chain goals and ensure that Supply Chain project team members receive appropriate resources in order to accomplish goals of supply chain projects. Coordinate production, purchasing, warehousing, distribution, and financial forecasting services and activities to limit costs and improve accuracy, customer service, and safety, and examine existing procedures and opportunities for streamlining activities to meet product distribution needs. Manage activities related to strategic and tactical purchasing, materials requirements planning, controlling inventory, warehousing, and receiving, and define performance metrics for measurement, comparison, and evaluation of supply chain factors, such as product cost or quality. Confer with supply chain planners to forecast demand and create supply plans that ensure availability of materials or products, and develop procedures for coordination of supply chain management with other functional areas, such as production or quality assurance. Apply the structured process and tool set for engaging stakeholders through change to achieve and sustain business results and outcomes related to supply chain project results.

Responsibilities

Manage supply chain project management activities by coordinating, prioritizing, negotiating, and managing execution of all project tasks and contracts.
Ensure that the supply chain has established processes, paths to market lanes, logistics routes, packaging designs, and is compliant with global trade requirements such as USMCA.
Lead the analysis, project identification, budget, communication, and integration for multiple complex supply chain projects.
Facilitate project planning sessions with Supply Chain Planners and key internal stakeholders to determine the scope and objectives of each supply chain project, design project plans, develop timelines, identify project milestones, and track performance against performance goals and timelines.
Plan and monitor project budget, conduct comprehensive supply chain research and analysis including analyzing the existing Supply chain path to markets, costs, and finding improvement initiatives, creating reporting for leadership to make strategic decisions, and providing input into the design and development of logistics project plans and timelines.
Compare supply chain, purchasing, logistics, and manufacturing strategies, by analyzing the cost of manufacturing, logistics, tariff, Duty, and packaging and creating an optimized holistic supply chain plan.
Manage project risk using quality tools to identify areas of risk from new product introduction, defining risks, defining plans to avoid risks, outlining the cost of risks, and presenting risk to leadership to help improve risk avoidance, as well as working with other Supply Chain Specialists to identify alternatives or solutions.
Utilize a Value Package Profile (VPP) and other scope-defining documents to manage change during complex supply chain projects, lead supply chain project launches, and manage the connections between multiple levels of scope detailed in related additional technical documents.
Develop, understand and improve necessary supply chain Key Performance Indicators involving Inventory measures, USMCA, Supplier Delivery, System Settings, and Accuracy.
Conduct complex analytical problem solving to effectively solve supply chain problems, considering trade compliance, global supply chains, macroeconomics, and logistical challenges.
Collaborate with supply chain and logistics teams to integrate logistics with business systems or processes, such as order management or shipping, and direct distribution center operation to ensure achievement of cost, productivity, accuracy, or timeliness objectives.
Analyze operational trends and develop corrective action plans.
Utilize advanced knowledge of supply chain, logistics, and operations in order to advance the organization’s supply chain goals and ensure that Supply Chain project team members receive appropriate resources in order to accomplish goals of supply chain projects.
Coordinate production, purchasing, warehousing, distribution, and financial forecasting services and activities to limit costs and improve accuracy, customer service, and safety, and examine existing procedures and opportunities for streamlining activities to meet product distribution needs.
Manage activities related to strategic and tactical purchasing, materials requirements planning, controlling inventory, warehousing, and receiving, and define performance metrics for measurement, comparison, and evaluation of supply chain factors, such as product cost or quality.
Confer with supply chain planners to forecast demand and create supply plans that ensure availability of materials or products, and develop procedures for coordination of supply chain management with other functional areas, such as production or quality assurance.
Apply the structured process and tool set for engaging stakeholders through change to achieve and sustain business results and outcomes related to supply chain project results.