Senior Director Supply Chain

Twenty-Six Defense•Fort Worth, TX

22h•Onsite

About The Position

Twenty-Six Defense is a provider of high-performance products, system solutions, and aftermarket support services for defense, homeland security, and commercial aviation markets. Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, it has facilities throughout the United States and is wholly owned by Elbit Systems Ltd. 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 needed to ensure material availability, cost, inventory, and schedule performance. The Sr. Director ensures Procurement provides a single voice to suppliers, MPS sustains schedule integrity as the plan of record, and MPM serves 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. It is primarily on-site at the Marine Creek location at least three days per week, with approximately 25% travel. Frequent travel to suppliers, customers, and company sites is expected, including periodic international travel of approximately twice per year.

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, role clarity, and decision-rights management skills.
Data-driven operations management capabilities, 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; approximately 25% total travel is estimated, with periodic international travel of approximately twice per year.
Ability to work primarily on-site at the Marine Creek location no less than 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 among MPM, MPS, Procurement, Planners, Production Planners, and Materials & Logistics.
Establish daily shortage-control, weekly risk-review, monthly EAC, and formal program-review 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 and ensure corporate policies and procedures are trained and followed as part of 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 cost-reduction portfolio delivery.
Develop leaders and talent pipelines and set standards for behaviors, escalation hygiene, and decision rights.

Benefits

Most locations offer a 9/80 schedule, providing every other Friday off.
Competitive compensation and a 401(k) program.
Medical, dental, vision, and disability coverage with qualified wellness discounts.
Basic Life Insurance and additional Life and AD&D insurance options.
Flexible Vacation and PTO.
Paid Parental Leave.
Employee Referral Program.
Voluntary benefits, including Long-Term Care, Legal, Identity Theft, and Pet Insurance.
Voluntary Tricare Supplement available for military retirees.

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