Supply Chain Manager

** Career Area:
** Supply Chain and Logistics
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* Job Description:

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** Role Definition
** Manages a team that oversees the order to delivery supply chain to ensure availability of necessary commodities to support manufacturing or distribution.  Develops, implements, and manages supply chain strategies and solutions.
** Responsibilities*
* • Ensure the supplier value stream performance is consistent and synchronized with Solar’s demand.  
• Serve as the industry expert for a particular value stream category and develop and execute supplier sourcing strategies that support business growth and cost reduction targets while delivering year over year supplier performance improvement.  
• Act as an internal consultant on the availability of future commodities and the corresponding impact on design programs.  
• Identify performance gaps within the supply base and develop improvement plans for the identified gaps.  
• Provide leadership through the development, mentoring and training of their team to build the best Global Supply Chain team and drive business results.
** Skill Descriptors
** Planning:
Tactical, Strategic:
Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.  Level: Extensive Experience  
• Develops, refines, and communicates tactical plans for own responsibilities.  
• Provides the right level of detail as input for strategic plan development.  
• Demonstrates the value and necessity of linking tactical plans to overall strategic plan.  
• Ensures attention to the detail and dependencies of existing departmental-level plans.  
• Plans for allocation of resources in line with unit goals, technical and business objectives.  
• Ensures the planning process is integrated with the overall business plan.

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: Working Knowledge  
• Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision-making process.  
• Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.  
• Participates in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes.  
• Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns.  
• Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives.

Negotiating:
Knowledge of successful negotiation concepts and techniques; ability to negotiate successfully across the organization and with external vendors and clients in a constructive and collaborative manner.  Level: Extensive Experience  
• Ensures negotiators have awareness of complementary yet diverse interests.  
• Successfully completes significant negotiations, both internal and external.  
• Details the risks of negotiation breakdown from each party's perspective.  
• Protects own position, while demonstrating willingness to achieve win-win.  
• Identifies similarities and differences in position and assesses impact on discussions.  
• Detects and addresses lack of progress or a stalemate.

Leadership:
Knowledge of leadership practices and processes; ability to use strategies and skills to enlist others in setting, embracing, and achieving objectives while having a long-term perspective of the future state of things and how to get there.  Level: Working Knowledge  
• Utilizes an appropriate style of leadership: autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire/free rein, etc.  
• Utilizes positive reinforcement to motivate & attain desired behaviors; increases productivity.  
• Demonstrates leadership…