Supply Chain Manager

Location: Seattle, WA (100% on-site)

Target Start: January 2025

Contract Duration: 8 months (possible extension)

Schedule: M-F, 40 hours per week, 8 hours a day

Pay Rate: $60/hr

Candidate Requirements:

• 5+ years of Program Management experience
• Senior leadership communication skills
• SQL experience
• Bachelors Degree
• Aviation / Air cargo background (preferred)

Job Description:

The Supply Chain Manager role serves as a subject matter expert on the team's established processes, drives third-party air carriers' operational performance, cargo lane enablement, process improvement, and contract execution. It requires cross-functional leadership with field and corporate teams as well as external teams, such as air carriers, aircraft maintenance providers, airports, and 3rd party vendors. This role routinely coordinates with and advises Director-level leaders in and Senior Vice President (SVP) levels of global air carriers. The Supply Chain Manager role executes the Air Transportation Services Agreement (ATSA) between the company and its carriers to influence performance with all stakeholders, improve 3rd party carrier operations by identifying root causes, trends, and performance degraders, and insist on the highest standards by creating containment and corrective action plans that raise the bar for carriers. As this particular role serves as the company’s counterpart to the carriers, relationship management and earning trust by influencing without authority are key parts of building cross-functional collaboration with teams such as Network Planning, Fleet, Aviation Sourcing & Technical, Gateway Operations, Airport Affairs, Legal, and 3rd party General Managers, Operations Integration, Finance, AIR Cargo, Service Performance, Aviation Security, Network Control Center, Carrier Compliance, and Safety Programs to collectively enhance carrier operational execution.

The role focuses on the cargo enablement for third party carriers along with the development of carrier-specific strategies, determining operational and spare fleet solutions as well as project scaling or depreciating decisions through coordination and collaboration across corporate and field functions. This must be an individual that is able to take ownership over complex programs, possesses strong written and verbal communication skills, is able to earn trust to influence without direct authority across business verticals, knows when to insist on the highest standards, and how to delivers results even on unclear, cross-functional problems. The role solves strategic, ambiguous issues while working with outside partners to improve service for our customers.