Capacity Assessment Team Leader

Capacity Assessment Team Leader

The Capacity Assessment Team Leader is responsible to build and develop a team to implement processes and measurement systems relating to capacity, capacity assessment, and delivery readiness. The Team Leader leads the implementation and execution of this process with suppliers ensuring that there is a regular, thorough, and robust assessment of the suppliers future looking supply capacity. This includes identification of capacity constraints at the supplier genba, development of countermeasures to mitigate constraints, hand off and communicate capacity assessment results for action plan management with the Supplier Team and Part Family Readiness leaders, and forecasting of future delivery capability with the SIOP team. The leader will develop the team's capability to be proactive problems with supplier partners and use Flight Deck and Daily Management to continually improve team performance. The goal for this role will be to ensure there are capacity assessment standards, consistently applied to collect and communicate capacity assessment results with partner organizations. The role has autonomy to create and drive rhythms to complete capacity assessments and requires high levels of evaluative judgment and operational acumen to achieve desired business outcomes.

Roles and responsibilities include partnering with the Central Readiness team, Part Family Delivery Leaders, and Readiness Leaders, Supplier Partnership Office teams, Commodity teams, and the Materials S&OP team to prioritize and assess 3-5+ year supplier capacity to support Delivery Readiness. The leader will build, hire, lead, coach, and develop the team of Capacity Assessment Leaders. They will develop partner relationships with internal and external supplier stakeholders (Part Family, Commodity teams, Readiness, Materials and Suppliers). The leader will also develop and maintain standards and process for the capacity assessment process and develop and maintain systems and tools to collect, document, and analyze the results of capacity assessments. They will apply the standards with prioritized suppliers to robustly and thoroughly assess the supply capacity ability for 3-5+ year forward looking demand. The leader will build action plans and apply Lean and structured problem solving to alleviate the constraints in conjunction with the Supplier and Supplier Team. They will engage the Part Family delivery leaders and Readiness leaders in regular cadence to prioritize and develop a rolling 90-day schedule of capacity assessment targets that meets the need and timing of the business. The leader will communicate the results of the capacity assessment including supplier's constraints to be incorporated in S&OP rhythms to respond to demand changes. They will develop measurement systems and Key and Breakthrough Performance Indicators (KPI / TTI) and utilize Daily Management of the process and KPI / TTI to improve team SQDC performance. The leader will interpret internal and external business challenges and recommend best practices to improve products, processes, or services. They will utilize understanding of industry trends to inform decision making process, present business or technical discipline solutions to leaders, communicate complex messages and negotiate mainly internally with others to adopt a different point of view, and influence peers to act and negotiate with external partners, suppliers, or customers. Travel up to 30-50% is required.

Required qualifications include a Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college with a minimum of 4 years' experience in Sourcing, Supply Chain, Operations, and / or Project Management. Desired characteristics include customer focus, respect for people, lean problem solver, humble, transparent, focused, and leadership ability.