Strategic Supplier Development (SSD) Group Manager, Americas

Deploy and execute the Global Supplier Strategic Development process on his/her scope (Domain or Region or Cluster) on the following aspects

• Selecting & on-boarding suppliers from a capability standpoint (quality, delivery, others)
• Evaluating the capabilities of suppliers & qualifying them (off-cycle evaluations/audits and qualification)
• Establishing the short-list of critical suppliers for which development actions are needed to minimize Alstom exposure to risks due to the Supply Chain
• Implementing the necessary development actions at suppliers to meet expectations : collaborative planning, capacity building, quality assurance improvement, training, maturity improvement, etc.
• Ensuring consistency and efficiency of the activities delivered by the SSD organization (Supplier Quality Development, Supplier Delivery Development)
• Ensuring regular exchanges/routines with Procurement for the deployment of Supplier Strategic Development activities and providing the consolidated view of supplier Panel’s performance & maturity
• Influencing both suppliers & procurement strategy to improve the overall performance of the supplier base
• Contributing to build the processes, tools and catalogue of activities for supplier strategic development

Achieve Supplier Strategic Development Targets on his/her scope (Domain or Region)

• Domain: Build and maintain the SSD Priority List of suppliers to be developed with the inputs from Regions
• Domain: Allocate suppliers of the Priority by country origin within the SSD organization (Domain or Region)
• Define for each supplier part of the SSD Priority List the level of needed development : “off-cycle” Supplier’s Processes Evaluation/qualification (Generic, Supply Chain, Special Processes and other specific audits) and/or full development plan
• Achieve the objectives related to Priority List coverage in terms of evaluation and qualification coverage, with adequate audits and Follow-up
• Identify, define and deploy adequate development initiatives for the most strategic/critical suppliers & measure results
• Ensure leverage of adequate resource needed (internal and/or external) to deliver the critical Supplier Development activities identified
• Contribute to support the Quality and Supply Chain Crisis resolution

Measure and monitor Supplier performance

• Consolidate the global performance of suppliers – Organize presence of relevant SSD representative in QBR and/or QQR with suppliers to share progress & needed actions
• Strongly support the management of Risky Suppliers (P1), TOP offenders and Supplier Operational Development in his/her scope
• Ensure proper application and management of the Escalation Process, and more particularly to validate RED SQ escalation requests at Global/Domain level

Manage/animate and develop the team of SSD (SQD/SDD/SD Project)

• Directly manage SSD teams under his/her responsibility and ensure coordination/animation with SSD in Regions (for Domain SSD)
• Organize his/her team and resources to cope with the supplier development needs identified on his/her scope
• Ensure adequate competencies of the Supplier Strategic Development team, support other Domains / Regions in developing their autonomy for delivering all supplier strategic development activities
• Contribute to identify, animate and leverage the network of qualified auditors to ensure consistency in the rules applied

Frequent travels required for the position (30 to 40% of the time) – Domestic and international –

Pay Range-$155,000-$170,000