Principal Supply Chain Planning Specialist at Northrop Grumman guiding supply chain strategies to enhance operational efficiency. Collaborating with cross - functional teams on missions critical to national and global security.
About the role
- Director of Supply Chain at Infleqtion overseeing procurement, materials management, and manufacturing planning for business scaling.
Responsibilities
- Lead the company’s supply chain function across procurement, S&OP, materials management, inventory control, manufacturing planning, and supplier management
- Run the company’s S&OP process and ensure it drives decisions around demand, supply, inventory, capacity, and build readiness
- Own procurement across key suppliers, components, and materials, including supplier selection, vendor negotiation, purchasing discipline, and supplier performance management
- Own materials management end to end, including inventory control, shortages, replenishment, WIP visibility, material movement, and overall material-flow discipline
- Partner with Manufacturing, Engineering, and Finance on make-versus-buy decisions, capacity planning, and production readiness
- Build and maintain planning processes that connect forecast, demand, supply, inventory, supplier lead times, manufacturing capacity, and build plans
- Manage relationships with key suppliers, manufacturing partners, and critical sub-suppliers, with clear visibility into dependencies, continuity risks, and performance
- Identify and fix process gaps across inventory, materials handling, and supply chain execution, and put scalable workflows and controls in place
- Support new product introduction and prototype-to-production transition, including supplier readiness, material planning, BOM integrity, change control, and build execution support within PLM and ERP environments
- Improve supply continuity and reduce execution risk through scenario planning, escalation management, and mitigation strategies
- Partner closely with Finance and Accounting to strengthen inventory controls, transaction discipline, and purchasing controls
- Build metrics and reporting that give leadership clear visibility into supply risk, inventory health, supplier performance, material readiness, and capacity constraints
- Drive improvement in the systems, process controls, and data integrity that support planning, procurement, materials management, and execution from PDM through PLM to ERP
- Build and lead the team over time, setting a high bar for ownership, responsiveness, and execution discipline across the function
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, operations, engineering, business, or a related field
- 10+ years of relevant experience in supply chain, procurement, materials management, manufacturing planning, or operations
- Experience leading procurement and supplier management in a hardware or manufacturing environment
- Experience running S&OP or a similar demand and supply planning process
- Experience owning materials, inventory, or manufacturing planning processes
- Experience with vendor negotiation, supplier performance management, and commercial decision-making
- Experience supporting make-versus-buy decisions or similar sourcing/manufacturing tradeoff decisions
- Experience with capacity planning, production support, or manufacturing readiness planning
- Experience working with ERP or related enterprise systems that support materials management, and improving business processes across functions
- Experience working cross-functionally with Manufacturing, Engineering, Finance, Quality, and Program teams
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to use data to drive decisions, identify problems, and prioritize action
- Experience leading teams, setting expectations, and driving accountability.
Benefits
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, short/long-term disability
- Employer-funded Health Savings Account
- Unlimited PTO
- 401(k) match
- Company-paid Life and AD&D Insurance
- Flexible Savings Account
- Paid FMLA, Maternity/Paternity Leave
- Employee Assistance Program
- Student Loan Repayment
- Equity Program
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