Supply Chain Director II - Maritime Solutions

Job Description

Are you a strategic leader with a passion for operational excellence? BAE Systems is seeking a dynamic Supply Chain Director II to lead procurement, warehousing, and subcontracting activities across our Maritime Solutions business.

In this highimpact role, you will shape the strategic vision for a worldclass, integrated supply chain ecosystem spanning three shipyards. You will direct a team of approximately 100 professionals and oversee an annual spend of $450M, driving efficiencies, cost reductions, and competitive advantage in a demanding fixedprice environment.

This position reports directly to the VP of Maritime Solutions Operations.

Key Areas of Impact:

• Develop and implement an integrated supply chain strategy that enhances organizational effectiveness across procurement, subcontracting, warehousing, production support, and supplier partnerships.

• Strengthen supply chain performance through strategic sourcing, supplier consolidation opportunities, continuous improvement initiatives, and alignment across shipyards.

• Build and strengthen strategic partnerships across shipyards and with key suppliers.

• Define procurement, subcontracting, and warehousing competencies and deploy training programs to support employee development.

• Ensure all internal and external supply chain activities meet the highest ethical standards and reinforce strong supplier and customer relationships.

• Establish, measure, and monitor key performance metrics to drive operational performance, including ontime delivery, schedule, and quality.

• Evaluate and improve current systems, procedures, and practices to enhance efficiency.

• Lead strategic sourcing efforts across commodities to maximize cost savings while maintaining highquality materials.

• Oversee collaborative business arrangements such as teaming agreements, joint ventures, and longterm purchasing agreements.

• Identify and assess suppliers to ensure continuity of highquality goods and services.

• Analyze economic and market conditions and advise leadership on impacts to supply continuity and cost.

• Prepare and manage departmental expense budgets and directmaterial budgets supporting contract awards.

• Direct the development and execution of production control systems to support material availability and production schedules.

• Ensure timely, accurate, and competitive quote development during the bid phase.

• Foster a strong, collaborative relationship with shipyard General Managers.

• Ensure consistent review, escalation, and resolution of systemic supplier issues such as nonconforming material, recurring NCRs, late deliveries, suppliercaused schedule delays, and safetyrelated deficiencies.

• Partner with QA, Safety, Operations, and Planning to align supplierperformance tracking, reporting, and correctiveaction expectations across all yards.

• Ensure supplier performance expectations and escalation mechanisms are applied consistently across shipyards, including alignment with Partner to Win and Supplier Performance Procedures.

• Lead supply chain activities that directly support ship repair and modernization programs, ensuring materials, subcontracted services, and production support align with repair schedule milestones, work package changes, and emergent work requirements.

• Partner with Program Management, Ship Superintendents, Planning, and Production to ensure supply chain responsiveness to rapid reprioritization and emergent material needs inherent to ship repair operations.

• Provide seniorlevel oversight of Contract Terms & Conditions (T&Cs) interpretation, ensuring procurement, subcontracting, and supplier agreements align with primecontract requirements for U.S. Navy and other defense customers.

• Ensure supply chain compliance with FAR, DFARS, and agencyspecific clauses, including flowdown requirements for subcontractors, notifications, sourcing constraints, and mandatory reporting.

• Collaborate with Contracts, Legal, and Program Management to mitigate contractual risk, negotiate supplier terms, and ensure clear alignment between supply chain commitments and contract obligations.

• Oversee implementation of internal controls to ensure procurement and subcontracting practices withstand DCMA, DCAA, and customer compliance audits related to purchasing systems, material management and accounting systems (MMAS), and supplier oversight.

• Oversee Warehousing operations as a critical element of the integrated supply chain.

• Lead improvements in warehouse operations, ensuring optimized layout, inventory flow, accountability, and materialhandling processes that support production and minimize downtime.

• Oversee material tracking and traceability, ensuring accurate receipt, storage, kitting, staging, and delivery to support production schedules.

• Lead enterprise efforts to reduce material loss, including improving controls, rootcause analysis of material discrepancies, enforcing materialhandling standards, and driving corrective/preventive actions across yards.

• Strengthen integration between warehousing, procurement, production control, and planning to eliminate shortages, prevent repeat loss events, and improve material reliability.

Required Education, Experience, & Skills

• MBA or Master s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Business, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent experience.

• Relevant experience in Supply Chain with a proven track record of transformation driving cost savings.

• Proficiency with ERP/MRP systems, analytics platforms, and performancemanagement tools commonly used in supplychain environments.

• Proven leadership ability to build, develop, and inspire highperforming, crossfunctional teams; capable of influencing at all levels of the organization.

• Familiarity with the defense landscape through experience at BAE Systems or elsewhere in the industry

• Exceptional communication and executivepresentation skills, with the ability to translate complex supplychain data into clear, actionable insights for senior leadership.

• Strong criticalthinking capability and a datadriven approach to decisionmaking, problem solving, and risk management.

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

• Professional supplychain or operational certifications such as CPSM, CSCP, CPIM, Six Sigma (Green/Black Belt), or PMP.

• Categorymanagement expertise, including understanding of supplier markets, cost drivers, and commoditystrategy development.

• Experience in defense, government contracting, or highly regulated industrial sectors.

• Strong supplierrelationship and supplierperformancemanagement capabilities, including development, qualification, and correctiveaction oversight.

• Advanced quantitative skills, including shouldcost analysis, supplier economics, demand forecasting, and cost modeling.

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $157911 - $268449

Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.

Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20 hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.

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