Manager - inventory strategy

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Description

At United, we have some of the best aircraft in the world. Our Technical Operations team is full of aircraft maintenance technicians, engineers, planners, ground equipment and facilities professionals, and supply chain teams that help make sure they’re well taken care of and ready to get our customers to their desired destinations. If you’re ready to work on our planes, join our Tech Ops experts and help keep our fleet in tip-top shape.

Key Responsibilities

The Manager – Supply Chain Strategy & Optimization will manage strategic initiatives across inventory management and supply chain. The manager will create and manage project budgets, tracking expenses and ensuring cost control. The manager will be responsible for various strategic projects like increase in parts investments due to new fleet or fleet expansion.

• Manage key strategic projects for supply chain including supply chain parts investments, implementing inventory policies, creating and tracking supply chain metrics as well as benchmarking against industry standards
• Creates and manages project budgets, tracking expenses and ensuring cost control
• Conducts regular budget reviews as necessary to maintain cost control and support financial goals Analyzes and establishes system protection levels that support operations at the least total cost
• Conducts thorough analysis and prepares detailed reports on performance against plan
• Identifies trends, variances, and areas for improvement, providing actionable insights and recommendations to support decision-making
• Improves operational reliability by minimizing aircraft out of service events, delays and cancellations related to the unavailability of spare aircraft parts
• Evaluates demand sources, supplier capabilities, strength and weaknesses of existing Supply Chain and models
  
  

Qualifications

What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, finance, operational management, operations research or engineering
• 4+ years of confirmed experience in fields of the Supply Chain, Airline or Manufacturing Industry
• Microsoft office, knowledge of relational database models, strong modeling skills, proficient in MS PowerPoint and Excel
• Strong people skills and ability to develop internal and external relationships
• Strong technical, interpersonal, verbal and presentation skills
• Strategic thinker with proven track record of implementing innovative solutions
• Strong project management skills with the ability to handle multiple and competing priorities
• Keen sense of curiosity, high learning agility, business acumen, comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change, thought leader with a bias towards action and team focused
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship
• Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification
• Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position
  
  

What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):

• Master's degree
• Lean Six Sigma Green/Black Belt certification
  
  

The base pay range for this role is $99,750.00 to $129,924.00.

The base salary range/hourly rate listed is dependent on job-related, factors such as experience, education, and skills. This position is also eligible for bonus and/or long-term incentive compensation awards.

You may be eligible for the following competitive benefits: medical, dental, vision, life, accident & disability, parental leave, employee assistance program, commuter, paid holidays, paid time off, 401(k) and flight privileges.

United Airlines is an equal opportunity employer. United Airlines recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status and other protected status as required by applicable law. Equal Opportunity Employer - Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions. Please contact [email protected] to request accommodation.