Director, Global Supply Chain

Ametek, Inc.•Waterbury, CT

About The Position

The Director, Global Supply Chain leads supply chain strategy and execution across global manufacturing operations and reports directly to the Vice President of Operations. The role drives performance across inventory management, planning, strategic sourcing, supplier management, and logistics. A central priority is improving planning effectiveness, reducing inventory and excess and obsolete (E&O), and improving working capital while maintaining customer service and supply continuity. The Director establishes discipline in demand and supply planning, inventory policies, safety stock, ERP parameters, and supplier lead times. The role leads global sourcing initiatives to reduce cost, mitigate risk, localize supply, and improve supplier performance. The Director directly leads the global sourcing team and provides functional leadership, standards, and guidance to planning, purchasing, materials, and logistics teams across manufacturing sites. This is a hands-on, data-driven leadership position. The successful candidate uses analytics to identify root causes, challenge assumptions, establish accountability, and translate supply chain strategy into measurable operational and financial results. The role also supports manufacturing transfers, localization, facility moves, new-product launches, and other major operational programs, while developing talent and capabilities across the global manufacturing network. Domestic and international travel is approximately 30% of the time.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business, Operations, or a related field.
10+ years of progressive supply chain experience in a manufacturing environment, including significant experience in planning, inventory management, and strategic sourcing.
3+ years of direct team leadership experience, with demonstrated success developing global or cross-regional talent.
Proven experience leading supply chain activities across multiple manufacturing sites and geographic regions.
Demonstrated success reducing inventory and E&O while improving working capital without compromising customer service or material availability.
Strong knowledge of SIOP, demand and supply planning, MRP/ERP systems, inventory optimization, supplier lead-time management, and materials planning.
Strong sourcing and supplier-management experience, including negotiations, cost reduction, supplier development, localization, alternate-source qualification, and performance management.
Experience with international logistics, freight optimization, global trade considerations, and total-landed-cost analysis.
Strong analytical, financial, communication, negotiation, and leadership capabilities.
Experience working across Eastern and Western business cultures and multinational manufacturing organizations.
Fluency in English.
Ability to travel domestically and internationally approximately 30% of the time.
Demonstrated ability and willingness to use AI tools to improve productivity, decision-making, work quality, and cost performance, including identifying appropriate use cases and critically evaluating AI-generated outputs.
Energetic, hands-on, commercially savvy leadership approach, balancing global strategy with direct operational problem solving.
Ability to turn ERP, inventory, demand, supplier, and financial data into clear insights, priorities, and actions.
Strong ownership and urgency, with a focus on following issues through to measurable results.
Business and financial acumen, including understanding relationships among inventory, working capital, lead time, sourcing decisions, cost, and customer service.
Ability to challenge assumptions and processes with facts and data while building alignment across functions and sites.
Exceptional multicultural communication and influencing skills, with the ability to build trust and drive change across regions, cultures, functions, and organizational levels.
Ability to develop talent and create accountability without relying solely on direct reporting relationships.

Nice To Haves

MBA or advanced degree.
Experience supporting manufacturing transfers, footprint changes, or supply-chain localization initiatives.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute global supply chain strategies that improve customer service, inventory, working capital, material cost, supplier performance, and lead times.
Provide functional leadership and governance across global planning, purchasing, inventory, materials, and logistics, establishing common processes, metrics, and accountability across sites.
Partner with site leaders and Operations, Finance, Sales, Engineering, and Quality to identify supply chain risks, resolve performance gaps, and drive execution.
Lead global inventory and working-capital initiatives, setting targets and driving sustainable reductions while protecting customer service and production continuity.
Establish disciplined inventory management for raw materials, work in process, finished goods, safety stock, and strategic inventory, with a focus on preventing and reducing excess, obsolete, and slow-moving inventory.
Establish structured E&O reviews to identify root causes, assign ownership, drive disposition and consumption actions, and prevent recurrence.
Strengthen SIOP, demand, supply, and material planning processes to improve forecast accuracy, capacity alignment, material availability, and visibility to supply-demand gaps.
Improve ERP planning parameters, including supplier lead times, safety stocks, reorder points, minimum order quantities, and order policies, using actual performance and data.
Establish and review data-driven supply chain metrics, including inventory turns, E&O, forecast accuracy, supplier lead times, material availability, past-due demand, and customer service, and translate gaps into corrective actions.
Lead and develop the global sourcing team, with accountability for cost, quality, delivery, lead-time reduction, supply continuity, and supplier performance.
Develop and execute sourcing strategies, supplier negotiations, alternate-source qualifications, and localization initiatives to reduce total landed cost and lead times, reduce inventory requirements, and strengthen resilience.
Establish supplier scorecards and reviews that use performance data to improve delivery, quality, cost, lead time, capacity, and responsiveness.
Lead supplier selection, qualification, contracting, development, and performance improvement, partnering with Engineering and Quality on technical qualifications, supplier audits, corrective actions, and new-product introduction.
Lead global inbound, outbound, and intercompany logistics strategy to improve freight cost, transit time, premium freight, reliability, and inventory in transit.
Optimize transportation modes, consolidation, routing, freight-forwarder performance, and material flows between suppliers, manufacturing sites, and customers.
Ensure sourcing and logistics decisions consider total landed cost, tariffs, supplier and transit lead times, inventory implications, trade requirements, and business continuity.
Provide supply chain leadership for manufacturing transfers, localization initiatives, facility moves, new-product launches, and other major operational programs.
Develop supply, inventory, sourcing, and logistics plans that protect customer continuity while avoiding unnecessary inventory buildup during transitions.
Assess supplier capacity, material readiness, lead times, inventory requirements, logistics, and supply-chain risks before significant operational changes.
Hire, develop, and mentor a high-performing global sourcing team while coaching and directing supply chain professionals across the global manufacturing network.
Build capabilities in planning, inventory management, analytics, sourcing, supplier management, negotiation, and problem solving.
Establish a culture of ownership, accountability, urgency, fact-based decision-making, and continuous improvement.