Director of Supply Chain

• A Global Procurement Leader: You have a strong record of developing category strategies, building supplier networks, and negotiating complex commercial agreements for technical hardware.
• A Team Builder: You are passionate about managing, mentoring, and expanding high-performing teams of buyers, material planners, and logistics staff.
• A Complex Hardware Expert: You have deep technical comfort working with electronics, PCBAs, semiconductors, motors, batteries, mechanical components, optics, and other drone hardware.
• A Systems Thinker: You build scalable processes, reliable planning disciplines, and data-driven systems that turn complexity into clear execution.
• A Risk Mitigator: You identify weak links early, quantify exposure, and implement practical sourcing and inventory strategies that protect production continuity.

What You'll Do

• Lead Procurement and Planning: Directly manage and develop buyers and material planners while establishing clear priorities, operating rhythms, performance expectations, and succession plans.
• Build Global Sourcing Strategies: Develop category and supplier strategies for electronics, PCBAs, semiconductors, motors, batteries, mechanical components, optics, and other critical drone hardware.
• Negotiate Commercial Agreements: Lead negotiations covering price, payment terms, lead times, capacity, minimum order quantities, non-cancellable commitments, warranties, and supply assurance.
• Build a Resilient Supply Base: Qualify, develop, and diversify suppliers; establish dual-source and contingency plans; and maintain visibility to geopolitical, capacity, financial, and component risks.
• Lead Material and Supply Planning: Translate the approved demand plan into executable purchasing, material, and capacity plans through the SIOP process. Maintain disciplined MRP parameters, priorities, and exception management.
• Drive Supplier Performance: Establish scorecards and operating reviews focused on quality, cost, delivery, responsiveness, capacity, and corrective-action closure.

 Compliance & Strategic Roadmapping

• Engineering-Led Compliance: Partner with Engineering during the design phase to ensure that compliance is designed into the product from day one. Support engineering workflows to keep hardware development aligned with regulatory standards.
• Certification Submissions: Oversee and support documentation and submission processes for critical compliance certifications, including Blue UAS and FCC regulations.
• Create Sourcing Roadmaps: Develop and maintain forward-looking lifecycle plans for our Bill of Materials (BOM). Map out the current BOM, define what it will look like tomorrow, and build a strategic path toward full domestic sourcing and production.
• Ensure Compliant Sourcing: Support country-of-origin controls, supplier traceability, customs requirements, and applicable ITAR, EAR, NDAA, and customer-specific sourcing requirements.

• Oversee Warehouse Operations: Lead and optimize daily warehouse operations, inventory control, spatial utilization, and safety standards.
• Manage Shipping & Logistics: Direct all inbound and outbound shipping, freight forwarding, customs clearance, and domestic/global logistics networks.
• Ensure Material Flow: Collaborate directly with the Production and Manufacturing teams to establish seamless material flow from the warehouse to the factory floor, preventing bottlenecks and keeping assembly lines moving efficiently.

• Partner with Engineering & Operations: Collaborate with Engineering, Quality, Operations, and Product teams from prototype through production to ensure sourcing readiness, manufacturability, qualification, and controlled changes.
• Manage Inventory and Working Capital: Set inventory policies and safety-stock targets that balance continuity of supply with inventory turns, cash requirements, and excess and obsolete exposure.
• Strengthen Systems and Controls: Optimize NetSuite and related planning tools, master data, purchasing workflows, reporting, and transaction discipline to improve accuracy and scalability.

• Supply Chain Leadership: Ten or more years of progressive supply chain, procurement, or operations experience, including at least five years leading sourcing, purchasing, planning, or logistics teams.
• Global Procurement Expertise: A strong record of building global supplier networks, negotiating complex agreements, improving commercial terms, and delivering measurable cost and lead-time improvements.
• People Leadership: Direct experience coaching and developing buyers, material planners, and warehouse/logistics personnel in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Technical Hardware & Compliance Depth: Experience sourcing complex electro-mechanical products in aerospace, defense, robotics, electronics, drones, or another regulated hardware environment. Familiarity with compliance standards like Blue UAS, FCC, and NDAA is highly preferred.
• Planning and ERP Capability: Hands-on command of MRP, supply planning, inventory controls, and ERP systems. NetSuite experience is strongly preferred.
• Cross-Functional Execution:  Demonstrated ability to work effectively with Engineering, Quality, Production, Finance, and Product teams to align compliance and material flow.
• Analytical Judgment: Ability to turn incomplete demand and supplier information into clear priorities, quantified risks, and practical recovery plans.
• Educational Background: A Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, or a related field is preferred; equivalent relevant experience will be considered.

• Continuity & Flow: Improve material availability, optimize factory material flow, and reduce shortages, expedites, and production interruptions.
• Sourcing Roadmaps: Successfully draft and execute strategic BOM roadmaps that steadily transition the company toward compliant, domestic production.
• Supplier & Regulatory Results: Improve on-time delivery, quality, and lead times while securing necessary Blue UAS and FCC certifications.
• Planning & Warehouse Discipline: Establish reliable SIOP inputs, accurate MRP data, and tight inventory controls across warehouse operations.
• Risk Reduction: Create clear category strategies, supplier risk maps, compliant sourcing paths, and qualified backup sources for critical components.

Compensation - $140,000 - 180,000