Principal Accountabilities:
Sub Job Family Description: Monitor quality, compliance and regulatory aspects between company and third party manufacturers including relationship management, technical issues, schedule conflicts, quality issues, vendor selection and evaluation. Provide contractors with the proper information to ensure that contractors meet quality standards. Act as liaison between company and contractors to ensure all products are manufactured following good manufacturing practices (GMPs) and quality products are released and available to meet customer needs. Identify potential new contractors and evaluates financial stability of new suppliers. Coordinate the development of documentation for contractor manual. May respond to cost and feasibility requests and obtain vendor quotations. ___* Manage activities of contract manufacturing employees responsible for the operations of contract suppliers including technical issues, quotations, vendor selection and evaluation, schedule conflicts, and quality issues* Serve as liaison between company and contractors
 

Knowledge & Skill Requirements:
* Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain or related field *Equivalent years of experience in a substantially similar industry may be considered in lieu of a degree to be determined by the nature of the specific job and the hiring manager’s criteria* Generally eight years of progressive experience with two years of supervisory experience* Strong organization and communication skills
 

Knowledge & Application:
* Knowledge of principles and practices within a professional discipline * Through leadership, directs the application of existing principles* Integrates and communicates fairly complex information within the specialization or recognized body of formal knowledge
 

Problem Solving:
* Resolve issues that are differing, but related* Issues require sophisticated analytical or problem solving techniques to identify cause * Devises solutions based on limited information and uses past experience or precedent to identify solutions or to adapt existing approaches to resolve issues* Uses evaluation, judgment, and interpretation to help others select right course of action, which may impact the longer term
 

Interaction:
* Interprets and explains information to audiences who are not familiar with the subject matter often requiring persuasion* Adapts style to differing audiences* Requires objective review of difficult work problems, obtaining cooperation or approval * Requires considerable resourcefulness* Requires strong multicultural awareness to appropriately deliver messages
 

Impact:
* Impact is generally limited to the achievement of short- to medium-term goals; may be required to develop and manage operational initiatives to realize operational and strategic plans* Contributes to delivery of departmental goals through personal effort or through influence over team members* Has contributory impact on team/discipline performance
 

Accountability:
* Accountable for meeting short- to medium-term targets which impact the department/discipline* Takes action to monitor costs related to own work and that of the team * People management responsibility for pay reviews, performance management, and resource planning