Senior Manager - Program Resiliency

This job posting can be within any of the following areas of Global purchasing and Supply Chain:

• Interior/Exterior/Thermal

• CBS

• Propulsion

The Role:

The Senior Manager – Program Resiliency is responsible for driving development of Tier n resiliency plans, managing execution of plans for commodity team, and ensuring accurate reporting/metrics for the team, from development through implementation and ongoing evolution, while collaborating with various internal and external stakeholders at GM. This position requires strong communication skills, a high degree of autonomy, and the ability to effectively influence stakeholders across all areas.

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities):

• Create and align commodity strategies to strengthen resilience with resiliency task force team

• Support commodity team in engaging with suppliers to champion critical resolution plans, banking execution, and execution of approved plans

• Lead risk identification, prioritization, read across, and champion mitigation efforts across components in commodity team

• Responsible for commodity team resiliency data management

• Collaborate with Engineering and other areas to Ensure commodity team is meeting program milestones for resiliency execution

• Analyze data to determine risk areas within the commodity team

• Support the alignment with specialized teams e.g. commodity, raw materials

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications) :

• 5+ years of experience in purchasing, supply chain, project/program management/account management or engineering

• Microsoft Excel- intermediate capability  (Analysis & Visualization)

• Strong Negotiation & Persuasion

• Problem-Solving

• Critical Thinking

• Attention to detail

• Vendor/Supplier Relationship Management

• Strong organizational skills

• Demonstrated ability to deal with ambiguity and to work with a high degree of autonomy

• Drive for results with an ability to lead and effect change in the face of challenges

• Desire to challenge status quo and bring improvements to existing processes

• Highly motivated self-starter

Top Candidates should possess:

• Bachelor’s degree 

• Experience in data analytics and reporting

• Ability to make sense of requests, needs, or issues in order to solve problems

• Ability to work effectively and efficiently with individuals and teams to solve a problem or complete a project

• Strong Relationship Management - Develops and maintains constructive, cooperative working relationships 

• Ability to take organizational strategies or priorities and turn into realistic action plans to execute or implement 

• An understanding of Supply Chains