Senior Director Supply Chain

Elbit America•Fort Worth, TX

9d•Onsite

About The Position

The Sr. Director, Supply Chain (Electronic Systems) provides strategic leadership and governance across Material Program Management (MPM), Procurement, Materials & Logistics, and Planning. The role establishes the operating cadence, policies, and enabling systems that ensure material availability, cost, inventory, and schedule performance. The Sr. Director ensures Procurement is the single voice to suppliers, sustains schedule integrity through MPS, and empowers MPM as the single point of accountability for material outcomes. This position leads a multi-site team of approximately 50 or more and partners with Engineering, Operations, Quality, Finance, and Program Management to meet customer and business commitments. The position owns divisional supply chain strategy and policy, including commodity strategies, the LTA framework, supplier segmentation, dual-sourcing, and the cost roadmap. It establishes governance cadences and role clarity across MPM, MPS, Procurement, Planning, Production Planning, and Materials & Logistics. The role leads material availability, inventory health, program EAC, schedule integrity, planning excellence, shortage prevention and recovery, and physical materials flow. It also supports procurement excellence and CPSR compliance, sponsors supplier-quality problem-solving, aligns decisions with Finance, and develops leaders and talent pipelines. This is a primarily on-site position at Marine Creek, requiring attendance at least three days per week. Travel to suppliers, customers, and company sites is frequent; total travel is estimated at 25%, including periodic international travel approximately twice per year. Business requirements will dictate travel needs.

Requirements

12 or more years of experience in Aerospace & Defense supply chain, leading multi-site teams and large-scale transformations.
Expertise in S&OP/MPS, MRP/ERP discipline, commodity strategy, contract negotiations (FAR/DFAR), and lean materials flow.
Demonstrated success implementing RACI-based governance and operating norms.
Executive leadership and role-clarity and decision-rights management skills.
Data-driven operations management skills, including KPI design, dashboards, and action reviews.
Advanced ERP/MRP proficiency, including schedule and demand integrity and PO management.
Supplier development and quality collaboration skills, including SCAR leadership.
Frequent travel to suppliers, customers, and company sites; estimated total travel is 25%, with periodic international travel approximately twice yearly.
Ability to work primarily on-site at Marine Creek at least three days per week.

Nice To Haves

Undergraduate degree in operations or business, or military service leading people.
MBA, or demonstrable business acumen and leadership.

Responsibilities

Evaluate and mature the Material Operating Model across Electronic Systems, maintaining role clarity and separation of duties.
Establish daily shortage-control, weekly risk-review, monthly EAC, and formal Program Review governance cadences, ensuring actions and decisions follow the published RACI.
Own divisional supply chain strategy and policy, including commodity strategies, the LTA framework, supplier segmentation, dual-sourcing, and the cost roadmap.
Ensure Procurement is the single execution voice to suppliers for commercial matters.
Ensure corporate policies and procedures are trained and followed as part of the broader DCMA Contractor Purchasing System Review (CPSR) and procurement excellence.
Lead MPM to deliver material availability, inventory health (DRIOH, turns, and E&O), and program EAC; empower tradeoff decisions and prioritization.
Lead MPS to sustain schedule integrity and feasibility, protect the plan of record, and drive finite scheduling discipline.
Drive Planning excellence, including MRP data quality, demand translation, PO maintenance, and commit alignment, as well as Production Planning activities such as work-order release and shop-floor sequencing.
Institutionalize shortage prevention and recovery through tiered escalation, expedite standards, and recovery planning, reducing firefighting through proactive constraint identification.
Oversee Materials & Logistics performance, including inventory accuracy, warehouse efficiency, material movement, kitting, and shipping.
Sponsor Supplier Quality problem-solving, including SCARs, containment, and corrective actions, with SQE ownership of technical compliance.
Align cross-functional decision-making with Finance for EAC validation, PPV governance, and delivery of the cost-reduction portfolio.
Develop leaders and talent pipelines; set standards for behaviors, escalation hygiene, and decision rights.