SME Project Manager-DLA
About The Position
Xenith Solutions is seeking a Subject Matter Expert Project Manager to lead contractor support for the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Troop Support Clothing and Textiles supply chain. This high-priority Key Personnel role oversees strategic planning, process improvement, analytics, JDA-enabled planning, and program execution in support of Warfighter readiness. The position coordinates contractor activities across the PWS and translates organizational priorities into managed initiatives and measurable results. The role supports a portfolio of more than 50,000 items while helping balance customer demand, industrial-base capacity, inventory, budgets, product transitions, system modernization, and service objectives. The Project Manager manages program operations and decision-making, coordinates recommendations and senior-leadership briefings, and guides initiatives involving demand planning, customer relationship management, product lifecycle management, strategic inventory, sales and operations planning, performance tracking, and process improvement. The role also maintains project schedules and reporting and directs work involving JDA, EBS, DLA data and analytics environments, and related logistics processes.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of IT or logistics project/program management experience, including EDI/XML experience and supervisory experience.
- Experience with DoD logistics functions such as finance, supply, contract administration, transportation, or project management.
- Experience using Microsoft Project.
- JDA experience.
- An active IT-II clearance or a favorably adjudicated National Agency Check with Local Agency Check, Credit Check, and Written Inquiries (NACLC) at proposal submission.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Common Access Card and satisfy applicable DLA IT-II privileged-access requirements.
Nice To Haves
- Eight or more years leading supply-chain, analytics, and process-transformation projects across multiple DLA Major Subordinate Commands or DLA Headquarters.
- Eight or more years of leadership experience with DLA EBS, JDA, and DLA data and analytic systems.
- Five or more years leading DLA Clothing and Textiles strategic initiatives relevant to the PWS.
- Five or more years implementing and configuring JDA for DLA organizational clothing, individual equipment, and recruit-planning strategies.
- Experience providing senior-leadership oversight of multiple DLA projects of similar scale and complexity.
Responsibilities
- Oversee contractor support across the PWS, including planning, organizing, staffing, directing, integrating, and controlling activities to meet schedule and performance expectations.
- Manage day-to-day operations and administrative activities, including risks, assumptions, staffing issues, dependencies, and interpersonal conflicts.
- Lead management decision-making and remain accountable for the duties and activities required for successful program and project delivery.
- Coordinate strategic recommendations, senior-leadership briefings, special analyses, and supply-chain collaboration with DLA Clothing and Textiles stakeholders.
- Guide demand-planning modernization, customer-relationship-management strategy, product lifecycle management, workload management, and performance-tracking initiatives.
- Support strategic inventory management, supply-planning alignment, sales and operations planning, cross-process optimization, systemic improvements, and user enablement.
- Maintain project schedules in Microsoft Project and provide monthly reporting on work performed, milestones, significant actions, risks, and status.
- Direct work involving JDA, EBS, DLA data and analytics environments, and related logistics processes.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
