Director, Supply Chain

About the role

Position Summary The Director Supply Chain develops and executes enterprise supply chain strategies supporting North Wind's commercial and U.S. Government programs, ensuring alignment with program requirements, financial objectives, quality standards, contractual obligations, and applicable regulations. Partnering with executive leadership, Program Management, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Contracts, and Quality, the Director embeds supply chain requirements into business planning and program execution. identifying and mitigating risk, optimizing cost and schedule, strengthening supplier relationships, and ensuring the materials, services, and supplier capacity needed to meet current and future business demands.

Responsibilities

• Strategy & Business Acquisition: Develop and execute the enterprise supply chain strategy in line with organizational objectives and anticipated growth. Lead supply chain activities across all phases of the Business Acquisition Process: proposal development, sourcing strategy, material estimates, supplier engagement, and make/buy analysis, ensuring plans include integrated schedules, budgets, procurement strategies, resources, and identified risks and opportunities before execution.
• Execution & Performance: Lead supply chain execution across programs and operations, with accountability for material planning, procurement, inventory, forecasting, material cost, and schedule and supplier performance. Establish the metrics and processes that monitor effectiveness and drive continuous improvement in cost, quality, delivery, and supplier performance.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner with Program Management and functional leaders to evaluate supply chain impact on program cost, schedule, and technical requirements. Communicate significant risks, opportunities, and performance trends to senior leadership with integrated mitigation and corrective-action plans, ensuring strategies and deliverables meet customer and contractual requirements.
• Procurement, Supplier & Logistics Oversight: Provide strategic oversight of procurement, supplier relationships, logistics, inventory, warehousing, and shipping and receiving. Develop sourcing strategies that support business continuity, competitive pricing, quality, and delivery; oversee logistics and freight strategy and monitor freight cost and performance.
• Compliance & Continuous Improvement: Ensure supply chain activities comply with North Wind policies, quality requirements, contractual obligations, and applicable FAR/DFARS requirements. Lead risk and opportunity management, supplier performance improvement, process standardization, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, or a related field or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years in supply chain management or related field, preferably in an aerospace organization.
• Demonstrated leadership of teams, programs or a significant function.
• Experience developing and