Supply Chain Project Manager

What you’ll be doing…

Your focus will be the launch and lifecycle management of new products, providing input on manufacturing, planning, operation, logistics, cost and quality. You will be the chief liaison between Product Development, Engineering, Marketing, Field Operations, Sourcing, Logistics, Distribution and our suppliers of these new and exciting products. Through working with suppliers on all deliverables including bill of material (BOM) risk & cost analysis, prototype and pre-production build planning, material-procurement readiness, manufacturing quality and test plans, you will help bring our products to market faster and enhance our service levels for an even better customer service.

• Delivering new products to our customers’ on-time, within budget, and with exceptional quality and reliability.
• Participating in early-stage product development meetings to ensure our requirements are accurately captured.
• Working with key strategic manufacturing partners to ensure production capability is developed on schedule and within budget. Ensuring ramp to full-scale production with excellent outbound quality metrics.
• Partnering with Manufacturer and Development teams to achieve desired result on design for cost, quality and reverse logistics.
• Rigorously maintaining key program issues, clearly articulating impacts, next steps and owners.
• Conducting project retrospectives and compiling lessons learned and integrate into processes and templates.
• Analyzing and interpreting ECO impact on Supply Chain schedule, costs and quality.
• Using customer data to influence development schedule and features on new products.
• Facilitating meetings, building positive relationships with stakeholders, suppliers and management, and developing new product introduction process documentation and metrics.

What we’re looking for…

You love supply chain operation and you like when things run smoothly-but when they don’t, you’ll find a good solution to address the immediate issue and then re-engineer the process to improve it for next time. And you’re always on the lookout for ways to maximize productivity. You like juggling several different priorities and keeping track of all the details. You work well with lots of different kinds of people and know how to flex your style to suit the situation. You prefer a fast-paced environment with new challenges each day.

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant work experience.
• Knowledge of Supply Chain and Product Development best practices.

Even better if you have:

• MBA or Master’s degree in engineering or supply chain management.
• Willingness to work a flexible schedule and to travel up to 20% of the time.
• Supply Chain or Project Management professional certification.
• Supplier management experience.
• Lean Six Sigma experience.
• Sourcing experience.
• Commodity management experience.
• Experience reading engineering drawings.
• Experience with SAP & Agile PLM.
• Understanding of Supply Chain and Product Development best practices; understanding common needs and challenges of the business.

When you join Verizon…

You’ll have the power to go beyond – doing the work that’s transforming how people, businesses and things connect with each other. Not only do we provide the fastest and most reliable network for our customers, but we were first to 5G – a quantum leap in connectivity. Our connected solutions are making communities stronger and enabling energy efficiency. Here, you’ll have the ability to make an impact and create positive change. Whether you think in code, words, pictures or numbers, join our team of the best and brightest. We offer great pay, amazing benefits and opportunity to learn and grow in every role. Together we’ll go far.

Equal Employment Opportunity

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer – and celebrate our employees’ differences, including race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, and Veteran status. Different makes us better.