Project Manager - Strategic Sourcing

Career Area

Strategy

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Lead and manage multiple projects involving internal customers as well as functions, organizations, products, or value chains during the project life cycle.

• Leading cross functional efforts to support strategic sourcing activities in order to lower landed costs including transportation and duty
• Assists with developing and execution of project scope and responsible for schedule achievement, and project profitability.
• Coordinating resources across all major business units of the company and external customers for projects
• Overseeing project progress and costs; communicating status with stakeholders and participating functional areas; addressing and resolving problems.
• Plans, schedules and manages the execution of projects.
• Manage report out to leadership and executive office on project status
• Consults on supply chain network design projects or processes.
• Advises others on capacity issues at various points in the supply chain.
• Leverage analytical tools to support the business in making strategic decision

Decision Making and Critical Thinking:
Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

Level Basic Understanding:

• Explains characteristics and steps in an effective decision-making process.
• Identifies issues and communicates with others when a decision needs to be made.
• Names decision makers in own environment and cites examples of past decisions.
• Describes types of decisions incumbent may and may not make in own job or function.

Influencing:
Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization.

Level Basic Understanding:

• Gives examples of decisions and who influenced whom in the decision.
• Describes key concepts of influencing.
• Documents and distributes suggestions and ideas, with supporting detail.
• Identifies local key players and decision makers.

Managing Multiple Priorities:
Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Recognizes changing demands and priorities; validates changes with management.
• Obtains information about how current assignments contribute to organizational goals.
• Completes current work according to assigned priorities.
• Responds to day-to-day operational priorities while still making progress on project work.
• Performs at least 2-3 concurrent activities without reducing productivity.

Problem Solving:
Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
• Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.

Relationship Management:
Knowledge of relationship management techniques; ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.

Level Basic Understanding:

• Provides examples of the characteristics of effective business relationships.
• Identifies key business relationships in own organization.
• Describe…