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Job title

SBInet Procurement Analyst 4

Company Boeing
Wage Not specified
Location United States, Alabama, Huntsville
Employment type Full Time
Education Not Specified
Year Experience 4 - 5 Years of Practical Experience
Travel Not Specified
Published on 7/10/2008
Description
Location
Huntsville, AL

Virtual Office/Telecommute?
(Things you should know about Virtual Office)
Virtual Work Not Available

Shift
First

Business Unit
Integrated Defense Sys

Division
Network & Space Systems

Program
Intelligence&Security Systems

Occupation Title
Supp Mgmt and Procurement

Skills Management Title
Process&Supply Base Mgmt

Job Classification
HAABP4

Job Type
Non-Management

Experience Level
Mid Level (5-15 years of experience)

Exemption Status
Exempt

Union
No

Security Clearance Required?
(Security Clearance definitions)
Ability to Obtain Interim and/or Final Clearances (Post Start) - US Citizenship Required

Work Eligibility Required?
Yes

US Person Status Required?
Yes

Export Control Required?
Yes

Relocation Money Available?
Yes

Date Posted
06/23/2008

Closing Date
(Things you should know about closing dates)
08/23/2008

Position Description
The Secure Border Initiative (SBInet) program is seeking a Procurement Analyst with responsibilities to include: Information Management (Website, Database, Server Administration), and Scorecard/Metrics visibility related to Supplier Diversity and Mentor Protege activities. This position is the lead role for all SBInet Small Business and Mentor Protege activities. Responsible for providing support to the SBInet Small Business Liaison focal and become directly involved in small business reporting and metrics. Participate in forecasting, statistical analysis, key variances analysis reports and explores relationships between conditions and effects. Involved in designing tools to collect lower tier small business data from SBInet teammates and supporting DHS government audits, where required. Will be the SM&P focal for the Mentor Protege Program. This individual will develop methods and tools to measure key performance indicators and extract, analyze, and prepare reports on data to measure key supplier and internal performance-to-plan. Performs root cause analysis and recommends corrective action. Interacts with and provides expert advice and guidance to supplier management and procurement personnel, functional organizations, customers, suppliers, and programs to support and communicate small business and mentor protege activities. Acts as a process expert to independently initiate improvements to streamline and automate process flows. Leads cross functional teams to identify, develop, document, and implement strategies, processes, and system improvements in support of company goals using internal and external customer inputs, audit findings, key performance indicators, and sound business practices. Acts as a process expert to determine and report compliance to internal and external requirements, regulations, contractual, policies, and procedures through audit and review of procurement transactions and processes. Additionally this individual will be responsible for the capture and documentation of the program supplier website management processes, management of SBInet website supplier opportunities, development of all website supplier communication plans, lead reviews, assist with the development of other web applications related to suppliers and SBInet partners use of the Boeing SBInet website.

Competencies
General/Leadership
[ + ] Business (Operational) Acumen

Extensive and specialized understanding of how the business and organization works and why; knowledgeable in current and helps develop future policies, practices, trends, and information affecting the business and organization; understands the competition; understands how tactics work in the marketplace. Understands how to accomplish tasks and influences through formal channels and the informal network; understands the origin and reasoning behind key policies, practices and procedures; understand and works effectively within the cultures of the organization.
[ + ] Collaboration

Consistently works effectively and cooperatively with team members and fellow project team leaders, other employees and external customers. Establishes and maintains good working relationships by actively involving less experienced employees and/or other project team leaders and external customers and helping them feel valued, appreciated, and included in discussions. Places higher priority on team and organization goals than on own goals. Offers to provide assistance and/or project team leadership to other teams and/or employees when doing so would benefit the organization.
[ + ] Communication

Consistently clarifies purpose and importance; stresses major points; follows a logical sequence. Consistently keeps the audience thoroughly engaged through use of techniques such as analogies, illustrations, humor, an appealing style, body language, and voice inflection. Consistently frames even complex messages in line with audience experience, background, and expectations; uses terms, examples, and analogies that are meaningful to the audience. Consistently seeks input from audience; checks understanding; presents message in different ways to enhance understanding. Uses syntax, pace, volume, diction, and mechanics appropriate to the media being used; attends to both direct and indirect messages from others; correctly interprets messages and responds appropriately. Advises fellow project leads and other internal employees in effective communication techniques.
[ + ] Continuous Improvement

Consistently and proactively reviews complex and/or specialized processes to identify gaps between requirements and current outputs within own work group, throughout the organization, and with external customers. Identifies potential conditions that contribute to gaps or key variances; explores complex relationships between conditions and effects; distinguishes causes from symptoms and identifies primary causes. Consistently and proactively generates ideas for solutions; analyzes the effect or impact of each solution; selects appropriate solutions; tests solutions; and gathers feedback from fellow project leads, internal employees and external customers on effectiveness. Reviews impact on baseline measures and modifies solutions as appropriate to ensure effectiveness.
[ + ] Customer Focus

Makes customers and their needs a primary focus of one's actions as a project team leader; develops and sustains productive customer relationships as they relate to project team leadership responsibilities; actively seeks information to understand customers' circumstances, problems, expectations, and needs; presents project level information to customers to build their understanding of issues and capabilities; considers how project level actions or plans will affect customers; responds quickly to meet customer needs and resolve problems; assists other project team leaders in implementing ways to monitor and evaluate customer concerns, issues, and satisfaction and to anticipate customer needs.
[ + ] Project Management

Extensive experience in creating comprehensive multi-tiered project schedules for significant Business Unit projects; identifies time frames for key project milestones and ensure alignment of sub tier activities for overall project visibility, tracking and completion. Directs and manages very complex project schedules requiring interfacing with multi regional or international activities. Independently identifies project resource requirements, integrate and direct multi project elements into a single collective overall project plan. Collaborates with others on the most complex projects assigned. Ability to direct, delegate and ensure performance of assigned responsibilities and tasks as a project team leader in support of the overall large scale and complex projects. Identifies and resolves any issues and provide solutions and or recommendations to ensure the successful completion of the project.
Technical
[ + ] Analytical Skills

Skill and ability to: collect, organize, synthesize, and analyze data; summarize findings; develop conclusions and recommendations from appropriate data sources with clients, customers and/or suppliers.
[ + ] Customer/Supplier Knowledge

Extensive knowledge of customer's/supplier's organization, processes, policies and procedures, products, requirements, capabilities, practices, support resources, preferences, constraints, etc.
[ + ] Information Management

Extensive knowledge of information lifecycle management, database design, markup languages and metadata fields and their application. Extensive knowledge of search and retrieval technology. Extensive knowledge of available tools for managing information.

Education and/or Experience
Bachelor's degree and 10 to 14 years' related work experience, a Master's degree and 8 to 12 years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Other Job related information
The successful candidate must currently possess or be able to favorably pass a background investigation, with approval from Customs & Border Protection (CBP), Security Programs Division.df-tc

Experience/Skills
See above

Other desired skills:
SBInet Procurement Analyst 4
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