IDEMIA

Program Purchasing Manager

IDEMIA • $90K — $120K *
Reston, VA 20191In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, business administration, procurement, or related field
  • 5-10 years of relevant experience in purchasing
  • Experience in an international purchasing environment
  • Strong ability to cultivate internal and external relationships with integrity
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel
  • Strong e-sourcing and analytical skills
  • Fluent in English with strong communication abilities

Responsibilities

  • Act as the primary contact between Program Teams and Purchasing/Supply Chain
  • Engage in Customer RFP response development alongside internal teams
  • Ensure program costs remain at or below the business case level
  • Standardize documentation for program tracking by purchasing and supply chain teams
  • Support category managers in negotiating complex contracts and agreements
  • Facilitate communication between Program Teams and suppliers during bidding processes
  • Review vendor proposals and liaise with Legal on contractual issues
  • Conduct market analysis and supplier evaluations to create sourcing strategies
  • Build collaborative relationships across the business to adapt engagement models
  • Develop and track program purchasing KPIs

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with multi-site teamwork
  • Opportunities for innovation and autonomy in work
  • Engagement with diverse teams in a multi-cultural setting
  • Challenging projects that require strategic thinking
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Primary interface between Program Teams and Purchasing/Supply-Chain to ensure seamless communication, focus, decision making, and collaboration through the program phases
  • Actively participate in Customer RFP response development, including costing inputs for products/services; collaborate with internal teams to ensure IDEMIA has the appropriate supply chain in place to deliver each program
  • Accountable to ensure program costs (hardware, services, etc.) are delivered at/below business case level to ensure successful financial performance of each program. Ensure detailed BOM level tracking of costs and cost evolution over time.
  • Provide standardized process and documentation for all program tracking and execution from the purchasing and supply chain teams
  • Support category managers in negotiating moderate to highly complex contracts, amendments, addenda, SOWs, and project statements to ensure flowdown and alignment between customer and supplier contracts.
  • Liaison between Program Teams and Purchasing/Supply-Chain teams on all bidder communications, negotiations, and required meetings.
  • Review vendor proposals, pricing, and terms and conditions. Liaise with Legal for legal issues, while fostering a collaborative business relationship.
  • Advise management of contractual rights obligations and risks. Ensure ethical process and approach is utilized during all contract negotiations.
  • Perform or support request for proposals, competitive bids, market analysis, and supplier evaluations. Engage with teams to Construct and develop logical sourcing strategies and fact-based options.
  • Develop collaborative relationships with the business. Maintain high level understanding of business and project alignments. Secure and adapt engagement models based on business level requirements.
  • Develop and implement program purchasing KPIs.


ORGANIZATION RESPONSIBILITIES
  • The position demands extensive teamwork with IDEMIA contacts located in multiple sites across North America. This individual must be an effective communicator who can add value to the IDEMIA sourcing and supplier management. This individual must be proactive, innovative, and autonomous.


Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, business administration, procurement, or similar field
  • 5-10 years of relevant experience in purchasing
  • Previous purchasing experience in an international environment
  • Ability to develop internal and external relationships with a high degree of integrity
  • Commercial acumen
  • Excellent analytical, problem solving, decision making, and negotiating skills
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite including Excel, Word, Outlook
  • Strong e-sourcing skills
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Results oriented with ability to function in a multi-cultural team environment, experience in working in a remote and distributed environment
  • Excellent analytical, problem solving, decision making, and negotiating skills
  • Result oriented, ability to manage multiple projects while effectively meeting deadlines
  • Fluency in English
  • Proven experience evolving in a complex environment and in implementing robust strategies and processes, can do' attitude

Note to third-party recruiters: IDEMIA Public Security does not work with third-party recruiters absent a signed agreement and will treat any resumes submitted without a signed agreement as the property of IDEMIA Public Security. In the event that IDEMIA Public Security hires a candidate who was brought to our attention by a recruiter who does not have a signed agreement, IDEMIA Public Security will not pay any fees to the recruiter as a result of the hire.

About IDEMIA

IDEMIA is a company that provides security and identity solutions to governments, financial institutions, and other organizations. The company offers services such as biometric identification, secure document production, and border management. IDEMIA is headquartered in Miami, Florida and has over 15000 employees.
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Size
15,000 employees
Industry
Business Services
* Ladders Estimates

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