Product Supply Npi Professional

**Career Area**:
Procurement

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**Role Definition**:
Executes the the planning, coordinating, governing and reporting procurements participation in the NPI process.

**Responsibilities**
- Providing leadership for the NPI activities within procurement, including select sources taken from the category strategies and resource management decisions.
- Monitoring and reporting NPI progress, holding NPI & design teams accountable for meeting quality and timeliness of requirements, and to assist the product group in managing procurement related capital.
- Working closely with operations and product development in creating a supply chain for a new product.
- Researching and assessing existing and potential suppliers; making recommendations on supplier selection.

**Degree or equivalent experience desired**

Skill Descriptors
Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.

**Level Extensive Experience**:

- 12 to 16years of experienced
- Evaluates and makes contributions to best practices.
- Processes large quantities of detailed information with high levels of accuracy.
- Productively balances speed and accuracy.
- Employs techniques for motivating personnel to meet or exceed accuracy goals.
- Implements a variety of cross-checking approaches and mechanisms.
- Demonstrates expertise in quality assurance tools, techniques, and standards.

**Level Working Knowledge**:

- Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
- Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
- Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
- Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
- Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.

Level Working Knowledge:

- Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
- Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
- Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.
- Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
- Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

Teamwork: Knowledge of the necessity and value of teamwork; experience with; ability to work cooperatively towards shared goals and being supportive of others at all levels.

**Level Working Knowledge**:

- Explains own role and responsibility within team.
- Actively participates in team meetings.
- Shares information, knowledge, and experiences openly and proactively.
- Describes team mission and objectives in the context of results to be achieved.
- Demonstrates open, friendly, accepting, and supportive behaviors with team members.

Project Management: Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.
Level Working Knowledge:

- Provides input for Gantt or PERT charts or their equivalent to track project progress and status.
- Under guidance, plans and estimates simple projects.
- Assists in detailed project plans including cost, schedule, and resource requirements.
- Obtains information from stakeholders during the planning stage of a project.
- Produces standard project status reports.

New Product Development (NPD): Knowledge of methodology, processes, and strategies of new product development; ability to develop an effective new product development (NPD) strategy and process to generate a range of products, services, and value propositions aligned with the organization's overall marketing and business strategy.

**Level Working Knowledge**:

- Analyzes and documents the performance of the organization's current portfolio of products, services, brands, and value propositions.
- Assists in conducting business analysis of new products.
- Implements a clear set of annual NPD priorities, based on the NPD strategy and the performance of the current product and service portfolio.
- Researches key market and customer trends about competitor product offerings.
- Utilizes idea generation exercises across the business for the NPD process to achieve organizational buy-in.

Procurement: Knowledge of buying and procurement; ability to work with organizational strategies and practices, and use tools for buying