Global Director Supply Chain

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POSITION PURPOSE

The Director Global Supply Chain is responsible for developing and executing BAC's global supply chain strategy for critical components, commodities, and supplier capabilities that enable product innovation, manufacturing competitiveness, and sustainable growth. This role serves as the strategic connection to ensure BAC maintains a resilient, cost-competitive, and technically capable global supplier network.

The Director leads the identification, qualification, and optimization of suppliers supporting BAC's global product portfolio and future technology roadmap. The role drives supplier capability development, risk mitigation, value engineering, component standardization, and sourcing strategies that improve quality, cost, delivery performance, and supply continuity. The position also provides leadership in aligning global engineering requirements with supplier capabilities to accelerate new product introduction, support product sustainment, and enable global expansion initiatives.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Strategic Sourcing and Procurement

• Develop and execute global supply chain strategies for critical components, materials, and supplier categories that support BAC's long‑term business, engineering, and manufacturing objectives.
• Lead supplier selection, qualification, commercialization, and lifecycle management activities for key global components and technologies.
• Establish global sourcing roadmaps aligned with product technology plans, manufacturing strategies, and regional growth requirements.
• Drive supplier rationalization, standardization, and consolidation initiatives that improve scalability, quality, and cost competitiveness across BAC's global operations.
• Negotiate strategic commercial agreements and long‑term partnerships that ensure competitive cost structures, capacity availability, and technology access.

Supplier Engineering & Product Support

• Partner with Global Product Engineering, CPI, NPI, Quality, and Regional Engineering teams to ensure suppliers of critical components and materials can meet technical, performance, regulatory, and manufacturability requirements.
• Drive value engineering initiatives that improve product cost, quality, manufacturability, and supply reliability without compromising performance or customer value.
• Support engineering change management, product redesign efforts, and component standardization strategies that reduce complexity and risk across BAC's product portfolio.
• Ensure supplier technical capabilities evolve in support of BAC's innovation roadmap and emerging product technologies.

Supply Continuity and Risk Management

• Develop and maintain global supply risk management strategies addressing capacity constraints, geopolitical risks, material shortages, regulatory changes, and supplier financial stability.
• Establish proactive supply assurance processes including dual sourcing, alternative technology qualification, strategic inventory plans, and business continuity programs.
• Monitor global market trends, commodity availability, and supplier capacity utilization to identify and mitigate risks before they impact operations.
• Serve as the executive escalation point for critical supplier performance issues, material shortages, and supply disruptions affecting business performance.
• Lead cross‑functional recovery efforts to minimize operational and customer impacts during supply chain disruptions.

Performance and Inventory Optimization

• Establish and monitor global performance metrics related to supplier quality, delivery, cost, responsiveness, innovation, and risk management.
• Drive measurable improvements in total landed cost, inventory productivity, forecast accuracy, and supplier performance.
• Partner with Operations, Planning, and Regional Supply Chain teams to align sourcing strategies with demand forecasts, capacity planning, and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) processes.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives…