Procurement Program Manager

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POSITION SUMMARY: The Manager of Procurement Programs will direct new program launches and product life cycle maintenance processes for the procurement department. This will be accomplished through the development of procurement project plans for new product launches, cost-down projects, and effective escalation/resourcing projects. The Procurement Program Manager will be the main stakeholder interface into and out of the procurement team and will be responsible for executing sourcing decisions and contracts created by the commodity teams. CORE FUNCTIONS: - Act as primary Procurement interface to cross-functional Product Line Teams working on execution of New Product Development Process (NPD) deliverables. - Lead procurement communications within the product line team (Product Line Management, Engineering, Commercial Management, Project Management and Operations Management). - Maintain a product line procurement roadmap to support: - Increases in product line profitability and achieve minimum targets. - Identification and execution of commodity strategy within the assigned product lines—consolidation and right sourcing. - Identification and execution of VA/VE improvement projects w...