Supplier Director

Represents the interests of those designing, developing, facilitating, procuring, implementing, operating and maintaining the project products. The Supplier Director role must have the authority to commit or acquire Supplier resources required.

If necessary more than one person may be required to represent the Suppliers.

Specific Responsibilities

	Agree objectives for specialist activities
	Make sure that progress towards the outcome remains consistent from the Supplier perspective
	Promote and maintain focus on the desired project outcome from the point of view of Supplier management
	Ensure that the Supplier resources required for the project are made available
	Approve Product Descriptions for specialist products
	Contribute Supplier opinions on Project Board decisions on whether to implement recommendations on proposed changes
	Resolve Supplier requirements and priority conflicts
	Arbitrate on, and ensure resolution of any specialist priority or resource conflicts
	Brief non-technical management on specialist aspects of the project.

The Supplier Director is responsible for the specialist integrity of the project. The specialist assurance role responsibilities are to:

	Advise on the selection of specialist strategy, design and methods
	Ensure that any specialist and operating standards defined for the project are met and used to good effect
	Monitor potential changes and their impact on the correctness, completeness and integrity of products against their Product Description from a specialist perspective
	Monitor any risks in the specialist and production aspects of the project
	Ensure quality control procedures are used correctly so that products adhere to specialist requirements.

If warranted, some of this assurance responsibility may be delegated to separate specialist assurance personnel. Depending on the particular Customer/Supplier environment of a project, the Customer may also wish to appoint people to specialist assurance roles.