Description - External

• Maintain and develop positive business relationships with a customer's key personnel involved in, or directly relevant to, a logistics activity.
• Develop an understanding of customers' needs and take actions to ensure that such needs are met.
• Manage subcontractor activities, reviewing proposals, developing performance specifications, and serving as liaisons between subcontractors and organizations.
• Develop proposals that include documentation for estimates.
• Review logistics performance with customers against targets, benchmarks, and service agreements.
• Direct availability and allocation of materials, supplies, and finished products.
• Report project plans, progress, and results.
• Protect and control proprietary materials.
• Stay informed of logistics technology advances and apply appropriate technology to improve logistics processes.
• Develop and implement technical project management tools, such as plans, schedules, and responsibility and compliance matrices.
• Provide project management services, including the provision and analysis of technical data.
• Manage the logistical aspects of product life cycles, including coordination or provisioning of samples, and the minimization of obsolescence.
• Perform system lifecycle cost analysis and develop component studies.
• Plan, organize, and execute logistics support activities, such as maintenance planning, repair analysis, and test equipment recommendations.
• Participate in the assessment and review of design alternatives and design change proposal impacts.
• Direct and support the compilation and analysis of technical source data necessary for product development.
• Support the development of training materials and technical manuals.