Job details

Domain

Performance and Support

Job field / Job profile

Purchasing - Management of purchasing domains

Job title

Program Purchasing Manager - LGI North America

Employment type

Permanent

Professional category

Professional, Engineer & Manager

Part time / Full time

Full-time

Job description

The Program Purchasing Manager leads the Program Purchasing function for the Toronto site across development and/or sustaining programs. The role has hierarchical responsibility for a team of Program Purchasing Leads who act as the Purchasing focal points within Integrated Program Teams. The manager ensures that the team consistently executes the Purchasing process, supports program milestones, manages supplier development activities (for BTS), supports the management of Purchasing risks and cost performance effectively represents Purchasing with Programs, Operations and Senior leadership.

Management:
• Hierarchically manage the Program Purchasing team responsible for the purchased scope of LGI Toronto development and/or sustaining programs.
• Organize and allocate team resources according to program priorities, workload and individual competencies.
• Ensure the onboarding, training, development and performance management of team members to support evolving program challenges and business needs.
• Maintain the team at the required quantitative and qualitative level and contribute to five-year resource planning.
• Represent the Program Purchasing function at the Toronto site and maintain effective working relationships with Programs, Production, Commodity Purchasing, Engineering, Quality, Finance.
• Ensure Division, Program, Production, purchasing objectives are properly flowed down to the Commodity Purchasing or IPT team.
• Ensure Build to Specification development and industrialization activities are led by the assigned Program Purchasing Leads.
• Ensure appropriate weekly reporting and governance routines are established at the relevant levels.
• Lead team governance and promote the cross sharing of ideas, lessons learned and best practices across programs and divisions.

Program Purchasing Activities:
• Ensure Program Purchasing representation within identified IPTs, supporting PROMPT milestones and coordinating priorities and actions with Commodity Purchasing.
• Ensure all Purchasing actions are completed in a timely manner in support of selected Program schedules.
• Participate in PMR/PPRM reviews, represent Purchasing, and ensure requirements and actions are properly flowed down, monitored and escalated.
• Ensure RC, NRC, schedule, contractualization, industrialization, risks and any additional specific Program required are effectively reported.
• Ensure RC/NRC performance is monitored and coordinate BUY scope cost reduction activities through Commodity Purchasing and IPTs.
• Ensure the team has identified Purchasing risks related to the Program and manage them in accordance with the SAFRAN Group Risk procedure. To ensure hot topics are resolved timely & properly. If required are escalated to head of the functions.

But what else? (advantages, specificities, etc.)
• Ensure team closely monitor key emerging & hot topics - ensure respective functions are fully informed, & their teams, Purchasing, Program, Production & Engineering, dedicate appropriate efforts to those topics.
• Support program performance through robust industrial schemes and compliance with Purchasing and industrial policies, including competitiveness and dual sourcing when needed.
• Ensure customer and program requirements are appropriately flowed down to the Purchasing organization and supply base.
• For Build-to-Specification (BTS) products the Program Purchasing team are the pilot: leading activities with the Suppliers ensuring all milestones are met on time during the development phase up to certification.
• Support Make or Buy activities, Industrial Committees, bids, RFIs and RFPs.
• Lead PUR 02 (Manage Bought Part of a Program) and ensure compliance with applicable Safran Purchasing processes, APQP, DVI/PPAP and AS9100 requirements.
• Ensure Program Purchasing plans, roadmaps and dashboards are maintained in line with program objectives.
• Promote process maturity, digital tools, best-practice sharing, continuous improvement and HSE culture.

Candidate skills & requirements
• University degree in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain, Purchasing or a related field.
• Minimum eight years of relevant operational experience.
• Demonstrated people management, project management and/or transversal management experience.
• Experience in Purchasing, Supply Chain, Engineering or Program Management, preferably within aerospace.
• Strong understanding of internal and external customer requirements.
• Ability to manage supplier relationships and intervene in critical escalations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Fluent English, French is an asset.
• Strong prioritization and decision making capabilities.
• Highly organized, rigorous and results oriented.
• Strong analytical and synthesis skills.
• Ability to engage teams and stakeholders toward collective objectives.
• Adaptability, influence, tenacity, and perseverance.

Salary: $104,600 to $130,700
Reason for Recruitment: Replacement

Job location

Job location

North America, Canada, Ontario, Toronto

City (-ies)

Ajax

Applicant criteria

Minimum education level achieved

Bachelor's Degree

Minimum experience level required

More than 8 years