Director of Supply Chain

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Ursa Major was founded to address a critical shortfall in the U.S. industrial base and bring a new model to aerospace and defense systems: we design and manufacture the world’s leading propulsion systems for space, hypersonic applications, and missile systems.

Our products and technologies require an extraordinary team – a team that will mold tomorrow’s technologies while deploying today’s best. We are an intrinsically motivated team that has a passion for solving problems and empowering each other every day to develop our skills, knowing that there is always room for growth.

Our Supply Chain is a critical function across all products. We are challenging the vertically integrated launch industry by providing on-time, high performing propulsion products that create value faster for our customers. We do this with a small, but highly effective team with a leader who creates opportunities where others won’t or can’t. We need someone who can utilize modern technology to scale from dozens of propulsion products to thousands.

This individual will need to roll up their sleeves to understand Ursa’s current processes while detailing an action-oriented path forward. We need a builder.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and grow a high-performing team of Supplier Development, Procurement, and Logistics professionals
• Provide exceptional levels of support for each of Ursa’s Integrated Product Teams. Hold yourself and your team accountable for creating Supply Chain solutions and driving results.
• Measure and Improve KPIs for Safety, Quality, On Time Delivery, and Cost.
• Own the supplier qualification, and requirements flow downs to ensure flawless AS9100, FAR, and DFARS compliance.
• Design and implement systems, processes, and software that enable efficient hardware procurement from early development through full-rate production.
• Report on Supply Chain strategy and execution to the C-Suite and the Board of Directors as needed. Professional results are expected.

Job Focus Areas and Expectations

• Capability to grow, develop, and lead a world-class Supply Chain team by establishing high trust, building relationships, setting clear expectations and recruiting top talent.
• Conduct regular team meetings to communicate your vision, align actions, manage expectations, and review results.
• Identify and onboard new suppliers for critical hardware procurement and contracted services.
• Secure the continuity of supply at the best cost by cultivating supplier relationships.
• Create KPI dashboards to measure supplier performance KPIs. Use them to detect supply chain problems early and drive the necessary improvements. Deploy technology solutions and digital tools to achieve better results with less overhead.
• Establish standard work for communicating forecasted demand to the supply base. Negotiate long-term procurement agreements when appropriate to best control delivery schedules and total cost.
• Identify critical supply chain risks then create effective mitigations strategies and drive them to completion. Effectively communicate these risks and mitigations to Leadership.
• Research commodity and market trends then distill those learnings into actionable plans to reduce risk and capitalize on opportunity.
• Identify and implement strategies and improvement initiatives to increase speed to market, improve quality, and result in a lower total cost.
• Develop agile inventory control practices, methods, tools & processes to ensure 100% component Serial Number traceability in every product shipped, streamlined material workflow, and unthrottled manufacturing.
• Optimize the logistics function to ensure timely product deliveries without damage and at optimal cost.
• Create the Standard Operating Procedure for configuring products within an ERP environment to unlock MRP automation through reordering triggers.
• Create, implement, and train the company on procurement policies and procedures.
• Ability to define concrete strategies and plans in a highly ambiguous environment.
• Bias for action and results…