Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Tailor your resume to this Strategic Supplier Development (SSD) Group Manager, Americas role.
Rezi rewrites your resume against Alstom's job description. Free.
Tailor your resume to this Strategic Supplier Development (SSD) Group Manager, Americas role.
Rezi rewrites your resume against Alstom's job description. Free.
Don't guess if your resume is good enough.
See how it scores against the Strategic Supplier Development (SSD) Group Manager, Americas posting at Alstom — free, in seconds.
Don't guess if your resume is good enough.
See how it scores against the Strategic Supplier Development (SSD) Group Manager, Americas posting at Alstom — free, in seconds.
About the Role
Lead strategic supplier development activities at a global or domain level, focusing on assessing, evaluating, and improving supplier capabilities in quality, delivery, and special processes to meet Alstom's expectations. Drive development actions at critical suppliers to enhance their maturity in QCDT aspects and influence supplier and procurement strategies for better performance.
Responsibilities
- Deploy and execute the Global Supplier Strategic Development process, including supplier selection, onboarding, capability evaluation, and qualification.
- Establish short-lists of critical suppliers requiring development actions to mitigate supply chain risks.
- Implement development initiatives such as collaborative planning, capacity building, quality assurance improvement, and training.
- Ensure consistency and efficiency of Supplier Strategic Development (SSD) activities.
- Maintain regular communication with Procurement to deploy SSD activities and provide consolidated supplier performance and maturity views.
- Contribute to the development of processes, tools, and activities for supplier strategic development.
- Achieve SSD targets by building and maintaining the SSD Priority List, allocating suppliers by country, and defining development levels.
- Ensure coverage of evaluation and qualification objectives for the Priority List through adequate audits and follow-up.
- Identify, define, and deploy development initiatives for strategic/critical suppliers and measure results.
- Ensure the leverage of necessary internal and/or external resources for critical supplier development activities.
- Contribute to the resolution of Quality and Supply Chain crises.
- Consolidate global supplier performance and organize presence in QBR/QQR meetings.
- Support the management of risky suppliers, TOP offenders, and Supplier Operational Development.
- Ensure proper application and management of the Escalation Process, including validation of RED SQ escalation requests.
- Manage and animate SSD teams, ensuring coordination with regional SSDs.
- Organize team and resources to meet supplier development needs.
- Ensure adequate competencies within the SSD team and support other domains/regions in developing their autonomy.
- Contribute to identifying, animating, and leveraging a network of qualified auditors.
Requirements
- 10-15 years of experience in Industry in roles such as Quality, Production, Supply Chain, or Engineering.
- Experience with Quality & Supply Chain tools (e.g., problem-solving, risk management, Lean).
- Knowledge of Manufacturing Processes.
- Experience in managing global suppliers.
- Ability to travel internationally, particularly in the Americas and Europe.
Skills
- Management skills
- Leadership
- Strong communication skills
- Influencing skills
- International and multi-cultural mindset
- Fluent in English
- Ability to work in a matrix organization
- Autonomous
- Rigorous
- Continuous improvement mindset
- Customer oriented
- Agile mindset
- Responsible mindset
Location
- Domestic
- International
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10-15 years
Salary/Compensations
- $155,000-$170,000