OverviewLMI is seeking a Supply Chain Risk Management Strategy and Implementation Lead to support the design, development, and implementation of an enterprise SCRM organization for a client located in the Washington DC area. The ideal candidate is a data-centric, policy-forward supply chain risk expert who understands how to translate SCRM policy into operational processes, governance structures, data requirements, and enabling technology solutions.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities may include:
- Support the design, development, and implementation of an enterprise Supply Chain Risk Management organization, including governance, operating model, processes, data strategy, and technology enablement.
- Develop, refine, and operationalize SCRM policies, procedures, standards, playbooks, and supporting guidance.
- Translate SCRM policy requirements into repeatable business processes, workflows, data requirements, reporting needs, and system capabilities.
- Define roles, responsibilities, decision rights, escalation pathways, risk acceptance processes, and governance forums for enterprise SCRM operations.
- Lead and facilitate cross-functional working groups with stakeholders from supply chain, acquisition, cybersecurity, IT, data, legal, compliance, mission operations, and executive leadership.
- Conduct current-state assessments of SCRM capabilities and develop target-state operating models, maturity assessments, gap analyses, and implementation roadmaps.
- Develop phased plans to help mature SCRM capabilities from ad hoc activities to repeatable, governed, measurable, and enterprise-wide operations.
- Work with technical teams to define business requirements for SCRM tools, platforms, dashboards, data repositories, workflow solutions, and system integrations.
- Evaluate how existing and emerging tools can be leveraged to improve enterprise SCRM visibility, analytics, decision-making, and reporting.
- Prepare executive-ready briefings, policy documents, decision papers, roadmaps, implementation plans, governance materials, and stakeholder communications.
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Undergraduate degree required. Degree in engineering, business, finance, economics, operations research, mathematics, or a related discipline preferred.
- Ten (10) or more years' work experience
- Experience developing, implementing, or maturing SCRM, third-party risk management, or supplier risk programs.
- Demonstrated experience developing SCRM policy, procedures, governance models, process flows, operating models, implementation plans, or roadmaps.
- Strong understanding of how to connect policy, process, data, tools, reporting, and governance to operationalize enterprise risk management capabilities.
- Ability to lead cross-functional working groups, facilitate stakeholder discussions, build consensus, and drive action across technical and non-technical teams.
- Knowledge of supplier risk assessment methods, third-party due diligence, supplier segmentation, criticality assessments, risk scoring, mitigation planning, and continuous monitoring.
- Experience defining business, data, reporting, workflow, or technical requirements for enterprise tools, dashboards, platforms, or data systems.
- Ability to work with technical teams to ensure technology solutions support policy requirements, business processes, data governance, analytics, and reporting needs.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create executive-level briefings, policy documents, implementation plans, and decision materials.
- Ability to operate in ambiguous environments and translate high-level objectives into actionable plans, processes, and measurable outcomes.
- Familiarity with policies related to federal SCRM, cybersecurity supply chain risk, acquisition risk, defense industrial base risk, critical supplier risk.
- Superior communication skills, both oral and written.
- Self-directed, detail oriented in completing assigned tasks, able to adapt to changing work efforts and manage impact of shifting priorities.
- This position requires an active security clearance at the TOP SECRET level. You must be a US citizen.
