Supply Chain Specialist

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What You'll Be Doing...
Your focus will be on 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 work you're doing including bill of material (BOM) risk and cost analysis, prototype and pre-production build planning, material-procurement readiness, manufacturing quality and test plans, you and your team will help bring our products to market faster and improve our service levels for an even better customer service.
Owning the team delivering new products to our customers timely, within budget, and with outstanding quality and reliability.
Participating in early-stage product development meetings to ensure our requirements are accurately assembled.
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 partners, 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 improve efficiency.
You like balancing 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 are an effective and inspiring leader, able to engage and motivate a team to deliver outstanding performance
You'll Need To Have
Bachelor's degree or relevant work experience.
Relevant experience required.
Knowledge of Supply Chain and Product Development best practices.
Even better if you have one or more of the following:
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.
Experience with SAP.
Knowledge common needs and challenges of the business.
If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every "even better" qualification listed above.
Where you'll be working
In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.
Scheduled Weekly Hours
37.5
Equal Employment Opportunity
Verizon is an equal opportunity employer.
We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability or any other legally protected characteristics.
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