Now Hiring - Aerospace And Defense Principal Supplier Relationship Manager in Reston, VA

Description

Job Description:

At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people dedicated to our customers’ success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainable practices. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business.

Leidos is seeking a Supplier Relationship Manager (SRM) in the Procurement and Enterprise Partnerships team. An SRM delivers exceptional service and value to Leidos through our high-performing, innovative supplier base. In this role, you will join a dynamic team responsible for building partnerships with key suppliers that will drive the overall business strategies. You will initially cover information technology (IT) suppliers.

Successful candidate will develop expertise with and proactively advocate for their assigned suppliers. You will work collaboratively with our technology, business development, proposal, and program execution teams to drive differentiation via partnerships that support growth opportunities. You will become the subject matter expert for your assigned suppliers and will identify new ways to collaborate to meet customer requirements. This is a highly visible position that interfaces with virtually all functions within Leidos, and Leidos executives will look to you as their primary point of contact for all matters related to your assigned suppliers.

This is position is based out of Leidos headquarters in Reston, VA.

• Function as a champion and an advocate for assigned suppliers
• Maintain intimate knowledge of supplier's capabilities, technologies, programs, training opportunities, and related areas
• Interface into Leidos procurement, business development, program management, technology organization, and Leidos executives
• Function as a category manager for key IT categories and develop intimate knowledge of your assigned commodities
• Create supplier partnership strategies, supplier resource documentations, and category strategies for assigned suppliers that support overall Leidos strategic initiatives
• Create training materials and provide thought leadership in the areas of supply chain
• Maintain and negotiate agreements with suppliers to support the overall partnership
• Brief Leidos executives on supplier strategies and partnerships
• Manage supplier-relevant events, such as tech talks, joint-technical strategy sessions, executive briefing center meetings, leadership engagements, summits, symposiums, and others
• Provide expertise into supplier capabilities to support major proposals
• Identify next generation emerging technology suppliers for Leidos
• Other duties as needed

Basic Qualifications

• Relevant bachelor's degree from an accredited college, or equivalent experience/combined education with professional experience and specialized training
• 12 or more years of experience in areas of procurement, category management, supplier management, or project planning, with demonstrated history of developing solutions to meet program requirements, or master's degree with 10 or more years of same relevant experience
• Understanding of major IT suppliers and the rapidly changing IT space landscape
• Experience interfacing across multiple organizations and program levels to achieve a common goal
• Experience creating captivating presentations and briefing materials for different types of audience
• Sharp negotiation skills, with both external suppliers and internal colleagues
• Organization skills with strong attention to detail and excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work under tight time constraints with multiple suppliers and multiple programs

Preferred Qualifications

• Extensive experience working with executives on all levels of engagement
• Experience in creating proposal volumes, press releases, newsletters, general articles, podcasts, videos, and others
• Experience in public speaking
• Knowledge in digital media, such as creating hypertext documents, manipulating vector graphics, editing images, handling post-production video editing, transcoding digital video, etc.
• Experience in drafting corporate policies, program manuals, or general guidelines
• Process improvement or automation experience

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.