Vice President of Supply Chain - Inc. Security Clearance

Position: Vice President of Supply Chain - BAE Systems Inc. with Security Clearance
Job Description The Vice President of Supply Chain for BAE Systems, Inc. (aka Inc.) provides Supply Chain proactive thought leadership, program development and insight specifically for the Supply Chain function in support of the Inc business. Acts as a key partner to continue to evolve strategy and goals related to Procurement, demand planning, Sales & Operational planning, Supply Chain master data management, and Transportation and Logistics with the main objective of ensuring the function supports the Company's strategic goals while increasing the impact and capability of the function.

The role significantly impacts operating cost, working capital, and risk for a business with $8B+ in annual spend commitments, 17,000 suppliers, supporting 20+ operating sites globally, and strong focus on functional development for 3000+ employees. The role reports to the (Global) Chief Supply Chain Officer, a member of the BAE Systems, Inc. Senior Leadership Team and Global Supply Chain Leadership Team, chairs the Inc.

Supply Chain Council, and is a member of the Global Supply Chain Council. Key accountabilities include:
* Developing and driving implementation of a multi-faceted functional strategy and governance for the Inc. business; collaborating with other home markets to maximize enterprise value.
* Drives the assurance of a robust Supply Chain Risk Management approach and program across Inc. and aligns as agreed with opportunities to leverage best practices with Group efforts in the same area.
* Chairs the Inc. Supply Chain Council leading the alignment of key policies, procedures and projects leveraging best practices across Inc. When applicable, in conjunction with executives and operational leaders will lead efforts to align Supply Chain resource intensive technologies including the development of multi-year technology/tool roadmap related to supply chain.
* Partners cross functionally (ex. other Council chairs) to implement and lead business processes to deliver against all organizational objectives, including achieving targets pertaining to Supply Chain.
* Driving functional excellence and talent development; leveraging best practices globally to deliver improved capability and outcomes year-over-year.
* Plays a key role in driving best practice deployment and utilization across Inc. as it relates to common functional processes including procurement, material planning, warehousing, and transportation/logistics.
* Works with the Sector Supply Chain/procurement leaders (including Enterprise Shared Services), and global category directors to coordinate supplier purchases and long-term agreements to optimize enterprise leverage and relationships.
* Acts as a thought leader for system-wide supply chain strategy, policies, procedures; monitors key performance indicators, analyzes performance data, and coordinates cross-functional teams to increase effectiveness of supply chain initiatives where leverage opportunities exist across multiple sectors.
* Acts as an Inc. representative on external Industry forums related to Supply Chain and Procurement, ex. AIA Supplier Management Council.
* Is an acting member of the Inc. Senior Leadership Team and actively participates in functional performance reviews, Quarterly Business Reviews, Requests for Bid Authorization and Program Performance Reviews as the functional lead for Inc.
* Takes a strategic leadership role with identified critical Inc. wide and/or global suppliers as part of expanding BAE Systems Supplier Relationship Management.
* Working with Sector functional leads (including Enterprise Shared Services) to proactively ensure proper controls are in-place related to the Finance Control Framework and that we are driving improvements in tools, processes and measures to track year-over-year improvements in audit outcomes. DESCRIPTION AND STATUS OF THE PROGRAM:
* The Inc. Vice president of Supply Chain will support the Business Leaders, Supply Chain VP/Directors, and global Chief Supply Chain Officer to continue this transformation, working with and through the Supply Chain organizations across the company. Due to the complexity of the various businesses, a key and critical requirement for this position is the ability to effectively foster change across an indirect, matrixed and geographically diverse functional organization.

* The role will continue the Company's evolution in best practice supply chain capabilities and organizational development to better leverage our global scale as well as sponsoring, supporting and driving identification and evolution of best practices for: procurement, material planning, warehousing, and transportation/logistics. This includes driving towards a standard job architecture, role specific training, and process standardization (where applicable), development of toolkits to deliver a lower cost to serve and higher consistency of outcomes and shaping a digital strategy enabling resource optimization and a strategic focus across the…