Vice President, Global Supply Chain

Department: Logistics / Supply Chain / Distribution / Transportation

Location: US - Indiana - Fort Wayne

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• Integrate demand, supply, inventory, capacity, and financial planning to align commercial strategy with operational execution.
• Drive working-capital improvement, service performance, cost competitiveness, and supply resilience across a global manufacturing footprint.

• Own and lead the enterprise SIOP process as the single, integrated operating plan aligning demand, supply, inventory, capacity, and financial commitments.
• Chair executive SIOP reviews and establishes governance, cadence, KPIs, and decision rights to enable fact‑based trade‑off decisions across service, cost, margin, cash, and risk.
• Drive scenario planning and what‑if analysis to support growth initiatives, product launches, capacity investments, and risk mitigation.

• Define and execute global supplier and sourcing strategies across direct materials, outsourced manufacturing, and strategic services, leveraging global category management, enterprise scale, and should‑cost/TCO methodologies.
• Establish supplier segmentation, preferred supplier frameworks, and long‑term strategic partnerships to deliver material productivity, cost‑out, margin expansion, and working‑capital commitments.
• Deploy digital procurement tools and analytics to improve transparency, speed, compliance, and decision quality across the enterprise.

• Ensure supplier quality performance meets global manufacturing, customer, and regulatory requirements through robust audit, corrective‑action, and continuous‑improvement programs.
• Lead supplier and supply‑chain strategy for new product introductions (NPI), VAVE, and value‑creation initiatives in partnership with Engineering and Operations, enabling design‑to‑cost and scalable supply.
• Drive supplier development and resilience through structured programs that improve cost, quality, delivery, capacity, and risk, including localisation and dual‑sourcing strategies.

• Own global logistics strategy across inbound, outbound, intercompany, and aftermarket flows, optimizing transportation networks, lead times, and inventory positioning.
• Lead global trade compliance, ensuring adherence to U.S. and international regulations, tariffs, and sanctions, with strong internal controls and audit readiness.
• Develop mitigation strategies for tariff exposure, geopolitical risk, and supply disruption across the global network.

• Identify and mitigate supply, geopolitical, financial, and operational risks across the global supply chain.
• Develop and execute supply‑continuity, contingency, and alternate sourcing/capacity strategies to ensure business resilience.
• Partner cross‑functionally on business‑continuity planning, crisis management, and recovery execution.

• Hard‑working winners – Confident, competitive, and results‑oriented professionals who create a track record of success.
• Dedicated achievers – People who thrive in a fast‑paced environment and will stop at nothing to ensure a project is complete and meets regulations and expectations.
• Effective communicators – People who can interpret information clearly and accurately to concisely communicate results and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Collaborative partner – People who build and leverage cross‑functional relationships to bring together ideas, information, use cases, and industry analyses to develop best practices.

• Act as an enterprise integrator across demand planning, supply execution, supplier strategy, and operational performance, enforcing operating discipline, cadence, and decision rights.
• Lead effectively in a complex, matrixed global environment while building and…