Supply Chain Specialist Development Program Associate

• Responsible for assured supply of materials, equipment and services, (on time, best price, high quality) in addition to competitive costs, minimizing inventories while ensuring optimum materials utilization, and supplier performance for the Emerging Innovations Group and the R,D and E directorates as needed
• Integrate into the Emerging Innovations Group to establish linkage with new and existing projects to communicate policies and procedures related to Global Supply Management (GSM) and establish shared objectives to drive results
• Work with customers to establish requirements and evaluate sourcing, cost savings, and/or value add opportunities.
• Assists in developing sourcing strategies, including evaluating the potential supply chain, intellectual property protection and total cost of ownership utilizing supplier and market intelligence. (cost modeling, low cost sourcing activities, consortiums, competitive bidding etc…)
• Ensure sourcing strategies include f...