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Job Description: Since 1966, Genie has been the leading name in the aerials industry, and Genie aerial lifts and telehandlers can be found enhancing safety and improving productivity on jobsites worldwide. A brand of Terex Corporation, Genie is part of a global company with offices, team members, manufacturing facilities and customers around the globe. We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Supply Chain Professional to join our team. The primary responsibility of this role is to lead a team in the areas of new supplier pipeline generation, supplier corrective action, supplier competency and capacity validation. The Director, Global Supplier Development will also be responsible for developing strategic plans to improve productivity, quality, and efficiency of Genie's SQE operations and processes. This position reports directly to the Vice President of Strategic Sourcing, Logistics, and Distribution. The successful candidate will work closely with other functions including Category Management, Materials Management, Quality, and Operations to ensure Genie can successfully support volume ramps globally while maintaining best-in-class quality standards. This position will also collaborate with the sourcing and materials teams in onboarding new suppliers including Genie forecasting systems, Invoicing processes, and packaging requirements. About you: Strong leadership, attitude, work ethic, and communication are critical for success in this role. Ideally, you have strong supply base management experience, deep project management skills, and excellent collaboration & facilitation skills. You leverage your problem-solving skills, intuition, communication, bias for action, and accountability to navigate inevitable ambiguity and competing priorities to drive results. You're a critical thinker, able to analyze data while adapting communication approaches to bring out the best in others. When faced with a challenge, you remain solutions-focused; hard on process, not on people. You have the polish and humility to motivate all levels of the organization, including seasoned executives. You value authenticity, respect and feedback and understand that leadership is bidirectional. Main Duties and Responsibilities: Support development of strong supply base to deliver world class quality at lowest total cost of ownership Identify potential new suppliers and evaluate commercial and technical capability and capacity to meet business needs Assist the Vice President of Strategic Sourcing, Logistics, and Distribution in establishing localization targets in emerging markets and execute plan Train various functions within Genie and suppliers in our Supply Assurance System and its elements, including audit standards, corrective action processes, and part qualification process. Expand the mix of competent suppliers to ensure stable supply of products from different global locations, with focus outside of existing regional supply base locations Work Closely with Suppliers with early involvement to develop advance component development plans, advising suppliers on right tooling, checking aids, providing timely inputs to suppliers on Quality, Delivery, and field issues with a view to institute proactive approach on quality Develop strong process and management system for assessing suppliers against the needs and specifications required by internal stakeholders Manage key suppliers to ensure issues are effectively resolved in a timely manner and ongoing performance is improved Collaborate with Strategic Sourcing, Materials Management, Engineering, Quality, and Operations to develop new suppliers to support NPD programs and product transfers Work closely with engineering and production to support strategic development activities and associated risk management of the supplied quality of parts and assemblies Direct responsibility for the assessment of SQE services, supplier cap