Supply Management Specialist

Your Responsibilities

As a Supply Management Specialist for John Deere Seeding - Valley City located in Valley City, ND, you will lead and/or support a Strategic Sourcing team with the development and implementation of sourcing strategies, meeting Enterprise Product Delivery Process and Enterprise Order Fulfillment Process requirements/goals on product cost, schedule and quality for the enterprise/region/division/unit. In the Enterprise Product Delivery Process, plays a key role in integrating suppliers early in the process to optimize design and cost. Builds and develops a supply base for procuring complex and strategic materials, products, supplies and services. Coordinates and leads efforts to address chronic supplier performance issues. Additionally, you will: 

• Execute planning activities within a defined framework/system with dependencies on other processes/units.
• Achieve specific goals for area of responsibility by working within an established supplier management plan or finding ways to improve it.
• Collate and analyze data using preset tools, methods, and formats. Involves working independently.
• Interpret data and identify possible answers. Involves navigating a wide variety of processes, procedures, and precedents.
• Plan and coordinate testing and inspection of products and processes. Implement corrective actions or continuous improvement initiatives and monitor them to make sure they are effective.
• Contribute to reviewing existing operations in own area of work, and generate new ideas to assist in identifying continuous improvements.
• Identify, within the team, instances of noncompliance with the organization's policies and procedures and/or relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct, reporting these instances and escalating issues as appropriate.
• Resolve queries from internal or external customers or suppliers by providing information on complex processes and the related policies, referring issues to others where necessary for interpretation of policy.
• Work on complex administrative processes and databases to develop and test administrative procedures to ensure they are fully in line with organizational needs. 

VISA Sponsorship is NOT available for this position

What Skills You Need

• Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on analyzing data trends for use in reports to help guide decision making.
• Uses clear and effective verbal communications skills without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on expressing ideas, requesting actions and formulating plans or policies.
• Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on developing appropriate plans or performing necessary actions based on recommendations and requirements.
• Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on planning, organizing, prioritizing and overseeing activities to efficiently meet business objectives.
• Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on analyzing data from multiple sources to draw appropriate conclusions and make suitable recommendations.
• Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on acquiring, organizing, protecting and processing data to fulfill business objectives.
• Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on reviewing and creating relevant, lucid and effective reports.  
• Works with full competence to analyze potential solutions and create recommendations based on the expected benefits, costs, and overall value of the solution for key stakeholders. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.  
• Works with full competence to understand business context, needs, rules, and architecture, as well as organizational structure, cultures, capabilities, and processes to document the current state of processes and the business. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.
• Works with full competence to interpret, contribute to, or lead business case creation with client departments to quantify current costs, justify project investment, and identify the return on investment. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.
• Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required to orient the seller's organization around delivering to the key needs of their customers.
• Works with full competence to envision and document the future state of processes and products by identifying the solution scope, potential value of the future state, and the changes to the process, products, organization infrastructure, capabilities, and technology necessary to achieve the desired future state. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.
• Works with full competence to conduct gap analysis between current and future states to identify components of the overall change strategy. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.
• Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required to uncover clientsexplicit needs and/or unforeseen opportunities and challenges.
• Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on creating relevant, lucid and effective reports.
• Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on how to optimize the deployment and use of vehicles and other types of movable infrastructure.
• Uses clear and effective writing skills without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on expressing ideas, requesting actions and formulating plans or policies.
• Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on interpreting and applying knowledge of laws, regulations and policies in area of expertise. 

What Makes You Standout

• Basic experience of coordinating the work of others (4 to 6 months)
• Experienced practitioner able to work unsupervised (13 months to 3 years)

Education

• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Level