Supply Management Specialist

Job Description

Supply Management Specialist | DLA Careers

The Tone:
This is a position within DLA Careers, an agency focused on providing logistics, acquisition, and technical services for the U.S. military. This role is crucial in ensuring contractor compliance and effectiveness in supply chain and inventory management, directly impacting mission readiness and operational efficiency. The specialist serves as a technical representative, monitoring performance and resolving issues to uphold contract requirements.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Flexible Schedule (M-F 0700-1530)
• Location: In-person, United States

• Mission: Monitors and evaluates contractor performance in supply management, ensuring compliance with technical and performance metric requirements, and improving business practices.
• Tech Stack: automated supply systems

What You’ll Actually Do
• Representation: Serves as the technical representative of the Contracting Officer Representative (COR).
• Performance Monitoring: Monitors the contractor’s parts delivery performance, including spot buy and long lead item procurement actions, to assure compliance with contract requirements.
• Effectiveness Evaluation: Evaluates contractor effectiveness in inventory management of bench stock, the quality of their data management and reporting processes, and overall business practice improvement.
• Reporting: Provides information and input to briefings on contractor performance and critical item status.
• Issue Resolution: Receives complaints or identified deficiencies from contract customers, provides information to resolve issues, or elevates recommended actions to the COR.

The Must-Haves
• Background: A master’s or equivalent graduate degree, or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree, or an LLB or J.D. in a related field. Education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to perform the work.
• Experience: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-07 level in the Federal service, military, or private sector. Creditable specialized experience includes conducting assessments of material support or supply chain management and preparing reports of findings, monitoring supply chain management functions for effectiveness and accuracy, receiving and addressing complaints or deficiencies from maintenance customers, and utilizing existing automated supply systems for data entry and research.
• Skills: Knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) or competencies to successfully perform duties related to supply chain management, inventory management, contractor performance evaluation, data management, and problem resolution within a logistics context.