Contract Specialist - Military Veterans

at Textron Specialized Vehicles

Thief River Falls, Minnesota

Textron Specialized Vehicles Inc. is a leading global manufacturer of golf cars, utility and personal transportation vehicles, snowmobiles, side-by-sides, all-terrain vehicles, professional turf-care equipment, and ground support equipment. Textron Specialized Vehicles markets products under several different brands. Its vehicles are found in environments ranging from golf courses to factories, airports to planned communities, and theme parks to hunting preserves.

Responsibilities:

  •  Manage supplier relationships for assigned groups and act as the primary point of contact.
  •  Lead efforts to identify and implement supplier cost reductions.
  •  Assist in the selection and management of new and current suppliers.
  •  Perform make vs buy analysis to determine the optimal chain of supply for materials and suppliers.
  •  Support the procurement team to address supplier delivery and quality issues.
  •  Source materials for new product launches and product model changes.
  •  Support the supplier transition process by allocating work from an external supplier to in-house production or vice versa.
  •  Coordinate requests for Quotthe e packages with the supply base to ensure premium pricing for materials.
  •  Prepare, negotiate, and document all supplier boniness contracts on behalf of TSV for assigned groups.
  •  Manage materials projects using problem-solving techniques, data from systemsy information system, and lean manufacturing concepts.
  •  Report metrics to internal and external stakeholders regularly.

Thief River Falls, Minnesota

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Textron Specialized Vehicles

In 1954, in a one-room machine shop in Augusta, Georgia, the first Textron Specialized Vehicles products were born. Two brothers started with a simple belief that they could build a better golf car, that better met the customers'​ needs, than any other vehicle on the market.

Since those beginnings, the Textron Specialized Vehicles product line includes not only golf cars, but also ground support equipment for the aviation industry, industrial utility vehicles, and recreational side-by-side UTVs. The company has become a world leader in transportation and a leading global manufacturer of golf cars, side-by-sides, utility vehicles, personal transportation vehicles and aviation ground support equipment. We build thousands of vehicles each year, many of which featuring game-changing technology and innovations to improve vehicle efficiency and enhance the user experience like no other vehicle can. Today, Textron Specialized Vehicles includes brands that are leaders in the respective industries they serve -- Cushman®, E-Z-GO®, Arctic Cat®, Jacobsen®, Ransomes®, TUG™, Douglas™, Premier™, Safeaero™ and Textron Motors™.

Since 1960, the company has been part of Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT), a global multi-industry company headquartered in Providence, RI. A Fortune 500 company with more than 35,000 employees worldwide and operations in 25 countries, Textron is known for its powerful brands, including E-Z-GO, Cessna, Beechcraft, Hawker, Bell Helicopter, Greenlee, and Kautex, among others.

But more than 60 years after our first product was built in that one-room shop, there is still that single belief – that we exist to build vehicles and services that exceed customers'​ expectations, better than any other offering on the market. It is the drive to sustain and improve that position – to offer an unparalleled combination of world-class products, advanced technology, manufacturing expertise, and extraordinary service – that leads Textron Specialized Vehicles to cover new ground.

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