Supply Chain and Supplier Management Lead

ACT1 Federal•Arlington, VA

4d•$180,000 - $200,000•Hybrid

About The Position

ACT1 Federal is seeking an experienced Supply Chain and Supplier Management Lead to provide multi-tier supplier mapping, risk segmentation, supplier-capacity analysis, and Government-authorized recovery planning.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in supply chain management, business, engineering, operations management, logistics, acquisition, or a related discipline.
10+ years’ experience in supply-chain management, supplier management, manufacturing, production, acquisition, logistics, or a closely related field.
Demonstrated experience evaluating supplier capability, capacity, delivery, quality, risk, and recovery actions within complex manufacturing or defense supply chains.
Experience working with prime contractors and lower-tier suppliers to identify root causes, validate constraints, and develop executable corrective actions.
Knowledge of production and supplier measures such as capacity, throughput, cycle time, lead time, yield, backlog, on-time delivery, quality, and schedule performance.
Experience preparing executive assessments and recommendations and leading cross-functional engagements with Government and industry stakeholders.
Active Top Secret Clearance required.

Responsibilities

Map prime contractor and critical lower-tier supplier networks for assigned weapon and weapon-system portfolios, including sources, locations, dependencies, and points of failure.
Identify sole-source and single-point dependencies, long-lead materials, obsolescence, fragile subtiers, qualification barriers, foreign dependencies, and other threats to production continuity.
Collect and validate supplier data on demand, capacity, backlog, lead time, on-time delivery, quality, yield, workforce, tooling, material, and financial or operational stress.
Establish supplier-risk baselines, heat maps, watch lists, leading indicators, and escalation criteria that distinguish verified constraints from unsupported assertions.
Assess supplier capability, capacity, production readiness, quality performance, delivery reliability, management controls, and ability to meet current and forecast demand.
Lead structured engagements, site visits, data reviews, and working sessions with program offices, prime contractors, suppliers, DCMA, and other authorized stakeholders.
Evaluate supplier recovery plans, capacity-expansion proposals, capital requests, schedules, assumptions, dependencies, and measurable production outcomes.
Develop and recommend corrective actions addressing material, labor, equipment, tooling, test, quality, facilities, engineering, planning, and lower-tier constraints.
Monitor milestones and results; identify emerging variance and recommend escalation, alternate sourcing, supplier development, investment, or other intervention when warranted.
Serve as the senior supply-chain and supplier-management advisor to the BOND team for assigned PAE and weapon-system priorities.
Integrate supplier findings with production, schedule, cost, investment, engineering, and program data to determine mission and delivery effects.
Coordinate actions across DASN DIB, PAEs, program offices, systems commands, contracting, engineering, logistics, financial management, and industry stakeholders.
Prepare executive briefings, supplier assessments, alternatives analyses, issue papers, action plans, and decision memoranda with clear owners, milestones, risks, and recommendations.