The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

Supply Chain Management Specialist-1

Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain management, or related field
  • 5-7 years of defense contracting experience within a supply chain role
  • Current Secret security clearance
  • Working knowledge of government contracting and related clauses
  • Significant ERP System Experience (e.g., Oracle, SAP).

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with internal teams to understand supply chain needs
  • Source, evaluate, and negotiate with suppliers
  • Identify and track cost savings opportunities
  • Act as primary contact for program-specific suppliers
  • Assist in updating and maintaining Bill of Materials.
  • Facilitate supplier relationships to meet contractual obligations
  • Monitor supply chain trends and emerging risk factors.

Benefits

  • Workplace flexibility to promote work-life balance
  • Access to employee clubs (photography, yoga, etc.)
  • Workshops focused on health and finance
  • Off-site social events
  • Discounts to local museums and cultural activities.
Full Job Description

Job Description Summary:

The Supply Chain Analyst will report to the Supply Chain Manager supporting the overall sourcing and business objectives for direct product categories for Draper’s four lines of business. The primary responsibilities include navigating a complex supply chain supporting multiple program needs and business strategies while building strong supplier relationships to ensure right quality, and quantity of goods are purchased at minimum cost for Draper’s program teams. This role is focused on reducing risk by identifying and mitigating potential supplier issues including single sourced materials, potential shortages, and monitoring supply chain trends.

Job Description:

Duties/Responsibilities

  • Proactively works collaboratively with internal program teams, quality, contracts, and other functional areas to understand unique supply chain needs to support customer, program, and commodity strategies.

  • Source and evaluate supplier quotes, select, and recommend suppliers and negotiate price, delivery, quality, service, and most competitive solution.

  • Identifies and realizes cost savings and reduction opportunities, gains alignment with finance and internal stakeholders for these wins, and actively tracks post event actual savings obtained.

  • Work closely with the program offices, quality and the larger procurement team and act as the primary point of contact for program specific suppliers.

  • Assist in pricing and maintaining Bill of Materials changes as relates to baseline and estimate to complete.

  • Ability to review and understand contractual requirements and facilitates supplier business relationships to ensure contractual requirements, performance, obligations and expectations are met.

  • Understand and interpret contract changes.

  • Proactively engage with suppliers to resolve issues and negotiate lead time improvement and other advantages for Draper.

  • Works closely with the program teams during the proposal phase to support supply chain and contractual requirements and compliance.

  • Provide analysis on cost and schedule performance.

  • Works closely with the program team and quality in the development of the Bill of Materials (BOM), to include supplier sourcing and obtaining the necessary documentation to ensure compliance and advise on material selection based on supplier performance and risk assessments.

  • Successfully negotiates Long Term Agreements (LTA) to ensure continual contractual coverage and drives cost savings.

  • Stay up to date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and regulatory changes that may impact supply chain risk management practices.

  • Manages respective PO data, maintenance in MRP/ERP environment, and works in partnership with AP to resolve invoice/payment discrepancies.

  • Acts as liaison with the material planner, supplier management and accounts payable to ensure data integrity of purchased components, suppliers and payment terms in ERP system.

  • Negotiates and settles with suppliers regarding damage claims, rejections, losses, return of materials, over shipments, cancellations, and engineering changes.

  • Monitors, tracks, and updates order status and is the primary contact to support schedule.

  • Other supply chain related tasks as necessary to include, but not limited to, logistics and inventory support.


Skills/Abilities

  • Working knowledge of government contracting, FAR/DFARS acquisition requirements and related clauses.

  • Significant ERP System Experience (Oracle, SAP, Other).

  • In-depth knowledge of manufacturing process.

  • Ability to analyze, react, and train on exceptions in MRP, especially around Bills of Material, Material Planning, Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders.

  • Requires strong written, oral, communication  and presentation skills.

  • Able to handle multiple projects simultaneously.

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain management, or related field.

Experience

  • 5-7 years of defense contracting experience within a supply chain role.

Additional Job Description:

Current in scope Secret security clearance is required.

Job Location - City:

Cambridge

Job Location - State:

Massachusetts

Job Location - Postal Code:

The US base salary range for this full-time position is

$82,300.00 - $220,000.00

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Union ranges will be in compliance with the collective bargaining agreement's approved rates by location and role. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.  Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and does not include bonuses or benefits.

Our work is very important to us, but so is our life outside of work. Draper supports many programs to improve work-life balance including workplace flexibility, employee clubs ranging from photography to yoga, health and finance workshops, off site social events and discounts to local museums and cultural activities. If this specific job opportunity and the chance to work at a nationally renowned R&D innovation company appeals to you, apply now www.draper.com/careers.

About The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

Draper Laboratory is an American non-profit research and development organization, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts; its official name is The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. The laboratory specializes in the design, development, and deployment of advanced technology solutions to problems in national security, space exploration, health care and energy. The laboratory was founded in 1932 by Charles Stark Draper at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop aeronautical instrumentation, and came to be called the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory. During this period the laboratory is best known for developing the Apollo Guidance Computer, the first silicon integrated circuit based computer. It was renamed for its founder in 1970, and separated from MIT in 1973 to become an independent, non-profit organization. The expertise of the laboratory staff includes the areas of guidance, navigation, and control technologies and systems; fault-tolerant computing; advanced algorithms and software systems; modeling and simulation; and microelectromechanical systems and multichip module technology.
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