Senior Procurement Manager (onsite)

Senior Procurement Manager

The Senior Procurement Manager will play a critical role in driving supplier performance and ensuring seamless execution across a complex global supply base. Acting as a strategic, hands-on partner to quality, engineering, and senior leadership, this individual will lead key supplier initiatives, resolve production challenges, and mitigate risks that threaten schedule, cost, or quality. The role also provides high-visibility support through executive-level presentations, pricing and financial analysis, and management of high-impact supplier escalations. Based onsite in Chula Vista, CA, this position offers the opportunity to influence major programs while traveling up to 30% domestically and internationally.

What You Will Do:

• Manage a group of suppliers from PO placement through order delivery.
• Directs and manages all schedules, and purchase orders for the client account or the product family, ensuring on time delivery and meeting all Quality requirements for products
• Review critical shortages with the multiple stakeholders.
• Managing the supplier relationship and improvement activities
• Proactively identify, analyze, and communicate program execution risks of supplier deliverables
• Compiles price proposals, financial reports, and other data and information to provide input on reasonable prices.
• Communicate and work closely with different internal organizations and internal customers such as quality and engineering to overcome any production and quality impediments.
• Reviews request for proposals (RFP) and bid packages. Present to senior leadership
• Travel up to 30% domestically and internationally
• Able to work on special projects presenting direct to Senior Leadership.
• Able to support other team members for escalations at complex suppliers.
• Responsible to monitor and implement corrective actions to ensure adherence to team metric targets.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum of 7 years' experience
• Aerospace industry or similar experience in areas of Engineering, Supply chain, Procurement and Operations
• SAP experience

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Technical aptitude to understand complex manufacturing processes
• Project management skills
• Lean Manufacturing knowledge and Continuous Improvement
• Process Improvement experience
• Executive presentation experience

What We Offer Benefits

This position offers relocation.

Some of our competitive benefits packages include:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Student Loan Repayment Program
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
• Adoption Assistance
• Autism Benefit
• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
• And more!

At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions whatever and wherever they may be. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionized systems for specialized aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you'll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customers succeed today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow.

The next chapter of our future as an aerospace company is here, and we are excited about what this means for our employees and customers! Get onboard the Collins Aerospace Operations team and play a part in managing our innovative products from inception to delivery. The Operations team continues to grow and aims to strengthen the connection of Manufacturing Operations, Supply Chain and Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S) across Collins Aerospace. In this dynamic environment, you will have the opportunity to network across our businesses and functions, all while improving the productivity, quality and efficiency of our operations worldwide.

Apply now and be part of the team that's redefining aerospace, every day.