Materials Program Manager

Materials Program Manager

Materials Program Manager

  

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Job Description:

   

HPE Operations is our innovative IT services organization. It provides the expertise to advise, integrate, and accelerate our customers’ outcomes from their digital transformation. Our teams collaborate to transform insight into innovation. In today’s fast paced, hybrid IT world, being at business speed means overcoming IT complexity to match the speed of actions to the speed of opportunities. Deploy the right technology to respond quickly to market possibilities. Join us and redefine what’s next for you.

What you’ll do:

1. Manages internal projects

• Scope ranges from simple to complex, either CM or ODM based designs
• Drive NPI material readiness, sourcing strategy, and COGS optimization to support on-time product launches.
• Manage supplier and contract manufacturer readiness, material availability, prototype builds, and production ramp.
• Mitigate supply chain risks, review BOMs/ECOs, and ensure supply continuity through multi-sourcing and cost optimization.
• Lead process improvements, collaborate across global teams, and provide regular cost, schedule, and material status updates.
• Manages project to ensure Supply Chain/manufacturing requirements are met and delivered on time, at the lowest cost, with quality.
• Identify and lead cross-functional SCO extended team members to identify, communicate and mitigate issues and risks, develop schedules and provide deliverables and documentation.
• Work with key internal customers to develop supply chain strategy to handle products and lead the cross-functional project team to ensure execution is aligned with the overall business objectives

3 Key Skills

• Strong supply chain, sourcing, procurement, and cost management expertise.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience working with global suppliers and contract manufacturers in fast-paced NPI environments.
• Proficient in Excel, PowerPoint, and collaboration tools; Tableau knowledge is a plus.

4. Manages stakeholder relationships

• Manages upper level stakeholder relationships.
• Communicate requirements and proactively supervise the progress, report project status and issues to internal partners, management, and extended team
• Represent supply chain aspects of product through entire lifecycle with support from Product Line Management (PLM), Engineering, and other functions

What you will bring:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• 8-10 year years in Materials project management roles or in like roles/businesses.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Demonstrates an in-depth understanding of NPI process, phase gates and Product Lifecycle Management
• Thrive in an innovative and dynamic environment, comfortable challenging the status quo, creative and passionate about implementing innovative solutions and new working models that drive customer satisfaction and address operational problems
• Ability to manage ambiguity, proactive to pull resources/information yet can make decisions based on available information
• Self-motivated, adaptable to fast-paced environments, passionate about delivering results exceeding expectation
• Strong influencing and relationship management skills, deal effectively with internal and external partners both at operational and executive levels
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to convey complex supply chain concepts into clear messages appropriate to audience level.
• Excellent Materials management skills, including, planning, scheduling, interdependencies, priorities, risk, and change management
• Quick learner, open-minded, excellent problem-solving skills
• Confirmed team leader/player in a cross-functional team, good collaboration with both internal and external partners

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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Job:

Services

Job Level:

Specialist

    

    

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Experience Level

Mid Level