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The Director of Materials and Supply Chain leads procurement, planning, shipping and receiving, and warehouse management teams at Teledyne FLIR Defense. The role develops supply planning processes, improves systems and efficiency, monitors supply chain performance, and coordinates with business units and other departments. It also oversees compliance, inventory reporting, talent development, and customer collaboration.
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US - Billerica, MA
Full time
REQ37269
Be visionary
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated provides enabling technologies for industrial growth markets that require advanced technology and high reliability. These markets include aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, deepwater oil and gas exploration and production, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.
We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins.
Job Description
About Teledyne FLIR Defense
Join Teledyne FLIR Defense, where we're dedicated to supporting critical missions with an exciting range of cutting-edge technologies. Our products include advanced surveillance sensors, unmanned air and ground vehicles, sensing devices used to detect chemicals, biological agents, radiation and explosives, and a host of other solutions that help warfighters, first responders, and search-and-rescue teams do their jobs better.
We're looking for passionate innovators eager to shape the future of the Defense and Public Safety industries. If you’re mission-driven to globally collaborate on solutions that can change the battlefield and save lives, we invite you to explore our current opportunities.
#AnyThreatAnywhere
Primary Job Duties & Responsibilities:
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Drive the development and implementation of a comprehensive supply planning process.
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Implement process improvement and systems projects to improve efficiency, reduce cost, and increase organizational capability.
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Provide regular updates to business unit leaders, interacting with multiple cross functional business.
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Ensure supply chain processes meet legal and trade compliance requirements and standards.
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Lead organization comprised of procurement, planning, shipping & receiving, and warehouse management teams.
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Evaluate and report on supply chain KPIs (part price variance, cycle count, excess and obsolete inventory, etc.).
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Provide regular reporting on inventory for Finance, Sales & Marketing, and key customers.
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Find cost-effective solutions for supply chain processes.
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Collaborate with other departments to create coordinated plans for business growth.
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Develop talent and retention strategies within the supply planning team.
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Train, coach, and evaluate your immediate team of talent.
Job Qualifications:
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Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Purchasing, Supply Chain Management, or another related field. MBA preferred.
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10+ years’ experience in a senior level Purchasing, Materials Management, Supply Chain Management or Operations role.
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5+ years of management experience leading a large Supply Chain functional teams or Customer teams.
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Advanced training or certifications in Purchasing or Materials Management preferred.
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Knowledge of business processes related to purchasing, logistics and operational planning.
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Demonstrated management, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
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Proven track record of building and streamlining business systems and processes utilizing an ERP system (SAP is a plus).
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Six Sigma/Lean experience highly preferred.
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Advanced technical skills in MS Office, Access, Excel, etc.
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Deep ERP experience, SAP preferred.
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Strong written and verbal communication skills across all levels within an organization.
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Experience in developing and maintaining customer collaboration.
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Experience with government contract supply chain regulations a plus
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Self-starter, reliable and a passion for excellence.
Applicants must be either a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, legal permanent resident, asylee, refugee or must be eligible to apply for and obtain the appropriate export control license from the U.S. Departments of State or Commerce.
#FLIR
Salary Range:
$150,400.00-$200,500.000
The anticipated salary range listed for this role is only an estimate. Actual compensation for successful candidates is carefully determined based on several factors including, but not limited to, location, local regulations (such as minimum wage), education/training, work experience, key skills, and type of position.
Teledyne and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all employees to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty, integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions.
Teledyne is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age, or any other characteristic or non-merit based factor made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.
You may not realize it, but Teledyne enables many of the products and services you use every day .
Teledyne provides enabling technologies to sense, transmit and analyze information for industrial growth markets, including aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, energy, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.
How this job compares
Set against the 5,284 open Procurement jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$150–201K/yr
- Massachusetts median$99–140K/yr79 salary ranges
- US median$96–148K/yr2,989 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $175K, is 43% above the Massachusetts median midpoint ($123K) — in the top quarter of Procurement salary ranges in Massachusetts.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 114 open Procurement jobs in Massachusetts and 5,284 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Massachusetts
- Accenture5 open
- RTX Corporation5 open
- Citizens4 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Procurement postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 4,136 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 2,414 of the 5,284 open Procurement jobs (46%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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