About this role
Who We Are
Textron Systems is part of Textron, a $14 billion, multi-industry company employing 35,000 talented makers, thinkers, creators and doers worldwide. We make things that fly, hover, zoom and launch. Things that move people. Protect soldiers. Power industries. We serve customers in industries spanning aerospace and defense, specialized vehicles, turf care and fuel systems.
This role is in Textron System’s Land Systems business area. Visit TextronSystems.com & Lycoming.com to read more about who we are and the products we make!
About This Role
The Director of Supply Chain is responsible for leading supply chain activities to effectively support all Textron Systems’ businesses. This includes establishing comprehensive and new supply chain strategies, leading optimal execution of purchasing activities, sub-contract management and supplier management. This leader will need to work collaboratively across business areas and functions to understand the needs of the business and drive supply chain execution and accountability to improve the service level provided to operations and customers, including cost, quality and delivery. This role will be located in Slidell, Louisiana.
Responsibilities
- Develop and lead a high-performing supply chain team of professionals focused on continuous improvement, customer service, and optimizing business performance.
- Work closely with program management, engineering, and operations to ensure we meet the needs of the business in a fast paced and dynamic environment
- Lead team members focus on procurement and sub-contract management to optimize cost-out, speed and on-time delivery.
- Lead team members to ensure accuracy in procurement operations such as lead times, promise dates, forecasts, etc.
- Serve as the Material Lead for ensuring acquisition revenue recognition goals are met on a quarterly and annual basis
- Support quick-turn requirements for all domain needs.
- Provide customer relationship management to internal customers.
- Lead team members to provide optimum internal customer communications.
- Leading complex supplier recovery or improvement projects with the SCM and Supplier Development Teams
- Coordinate across the enterprise, site locations, and resources to balance work-load and optimize work assignments based on personnel skill levels.
- Perform data analytics and analysis and utilize to drive performance (accountability), identify improvement strategies, and enable proactive engagement with internal functions to improve business performance.
- Drive performance by establishing key supply management metrics and establishing accountability for meeting performance objectives.
- Ensure ethical behavior and maintain compliance to regulatory requirements
Qualifications
Required qualifications
- Undergraduate 4-year degree (BS/BA in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, Accounting, Engineering, Operations or related business)
- Minimum of 8 years’ relevant experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, supplier management, contracts or integrated supply chain operations
- Minimum of 4 years’ experience in leadership capacity with direct reports
- High integrity, credibility and character
- Proven leadership skills and a strong communicator and listener
- Cultural flexibility and adaptability, collaborates well across organizations
- Experience developing and executing sourcing strategies
- Skilled with contract formation and negotiating high-value contracts
- Must be able to obtain Security Clearance
Preferred qualifications
- Government contracting experience with FAR Part 12 and 15 Contracts of various cost types
- Exposure and working knowledge of Earned Value System Management
- Supporting new product development
- Master’s Degree in related field
- Previous experience with Lean principles or Six Sigma certification
- CPM and/or CPIM
Technical and/or Manufacturing Operations experience or education
How We Care
At Textron Systems, our talented people make us successful. We promote an inclusive environment where we value individuality, differences, and unique perspectives.
Our Company is committed to offering employees opportunities to grow and develop. Our benefits and compensation packages are designed to help our talented employees excel and achieve their goals, so they can make a difference every day in and outside of the workplace. Below are just a few examples!
Flexible Work Schedules
Education Assistance
Career Development & Training Opportunities
Wellness Program (including Fitness Reimbursement)
Medical, Dental, Vision & 401(K) with Company Funding
- Paid Parental Leave
Are you a Military Veteran?
Textron's products and services are trusted everyday by those who protect our country. We are dedicated to hiring these Veterans and aim to translate their skills to make an impact on our Company.
Other facts
About Textron
In 1954, in a one-room machine shop in Augusta, Georgia, the first Textron Specialized Vehicles products were born. Two brothers started with a simple belief that they could build a better golf car, that better met the customers' needs, than any other vehicle on the market.
Since those beginnings, the Textron Specialized Vehicles product line includes not only golf cars, but also ground support equipment for the aviation industry, industrial utility vehicles, and recreational side-by-side UTVs. The company has become a world leader in transportation and a leading global manufacturer of golf cars, side-by-sides, utility vehicles, personal transportation vehicles and aviation ground support equipment. We build thousands of vehicles each year, many of which featuring game-changing technology and innovations to improve vehicle efficiency and enhance the user experience like no other vehicle can. Today, Textron Specialized Vehicles includes brands that are leaders in the respective industries they serve -- Cushman®, E-Z-GO®, Arctic Cat®, Jacobsen®, Ransomes®, TUG™, Douglas™, Premier™, and Safeaero™.
Since 1960, the company has been part of Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT), a global multi-industry company headquartered in Providence, RI. A Fortune 500 company with more than 35,000 employees worldwide and operations in 25 countries, Textron is known for its powerful brands, including E-Z-GO, Cessna, Beechcraft, Hawker, Bell, and Kautex, among others.
But nearly 70 years after our first product was built in that one-room shop, there is still that single belief – that we exist to build vehicles and services that exceed customers' expectations, better than any other offering on the market. It is the drive to sustain and improve that position – to offer an unparalleled combination of world-class products, advanced technology, manufacturing expertise, and extraordinary service – that leads Textron Specialized Vehicles to cover new ground.
What you'll do
- The Director of Supply Chain is responsible for leading supply chain activities to support all Textron Systems’ businesses, including developing strategies and optimizing procurement operations. This role involves collaboration across business areas to improve service levels in cost, quality, and delivery.
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