Supply Chain Program Manager
About The Position
The Materials Program Manager is responsible for owning and delivering the financial and cost models for custom-designed, groundbreaking devices, including BOM and MVA, tooling, and NRE. This role partners closely with local and remote operations and engineering teams to develop, implement, and manage the program budget and schedule across the full product lifecycle, from new product introduction through end-of-life. Acting as the business voice for the product, this position captures, documents, and communicates financial exposures and outlays, manages key supplier relationships for major modules and final assemblies, and supports weekly executive reviews on performance against budget, cost, and schedule targets.
Requirements
- Experience in supply chain and program or project management, with the ability to manage budgets, schedules, and cross-functional deliverables.
- Hands-on procurement and purchasing experience, including working with purchase orders and coordinating component delivery.
- Strong cost management and supplier management capabilities, including experience with NPI, NRE, MVA, PPV, cost modeling, and supplier negotiations.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, with the ability to build, analyze, and maintain complex cost and financial models.
- Familiarity with manufacturing environments and processes, with experience in manufacturing strongly preferred.
- Experience working with ERP or related systems such as SAP for supply chain, purchasing, and cost tracking.
Responsibilities
- Develop, manage, and own the program’s financial and cost models, including BOM and MVA, tooling, and NRE for custom devices.
- Partner with engineering and supply chain teams to set program cost and schedule targets at a commodity level for assigned projects.
- Ensure timely procurement and delivery of components to support NPI and production builds.
- Coordinate activities across diverse cross-functional groups to mitigate issues and minimize escalations to executives.
- Track actual program costs and milestones versus targets, identify deltas, and drive corrective actions to bring the program back on track.
- Attend and lead new product introduction meetings to understand the cost implications of engineering and process changes on fully loaded product cost targets.
- Collaborate with third-party suppliers to define purchase order costs for upcoming periods.
- Drive statements of work (SOW) and product/supplier contract negotiations to support program objectives.
- Manage purchase price variance (PPV) claims and schedule delays resulting from engineering changes, component obsolescence, or forecast variances.
- Lead supply chain and operations partners to build detailed cost reduction forecasts that enable the program to meet and exceed financial goals.
- Support weekly executive product line reviews by outlining performance against budget, target and actual costs, and schedule milestones.
Benefits
- Medical, dental & vision
- Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
- 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
- Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
- Short and long-term disability
- Health Spending Account (HSA)
- Transportation benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
