What are the responsibilities and job description for the Head of Supply Chain and Procurement position at DSJ Global?
Head of Supply Chain and Procurement
Location: Seattle, WA (onsite)
Compensation: $180,000-$220,000
Overview
The Head of Procurement leads global sourcing, supplier strategy, and procurement execution within a highly regulated aerospace manufacturing environment. This role owns sourcing strategy across direct and indirect spend, drives cost and performance improvements, and ensures supply continuity in support of production schedules, quality requirements, and ontime delivery commitments.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead global sourcing initiatives supporting aerospace and defense manufacturing, including supplier identification, qualification, and onboarding
- Own negotiations and administration of complex supplier agreements, longterm pricing, and capacity commitments
- Drive cost reduction initiatives focused on total cost of ownership (TCO), shouldcost modeling, and lifecycle management
- Develop and execute strategic category plans across aerospacecritical commodities and services
- Identify and mitigate supply chain risk related to capacity constraints, long leadtime components, and geopolitical exposure
- Establish and manage supplier scorecards, KPIs, and quality / delivery performance metrics
- Serve as procurement lead for SIOP, ensuring supplier readiness aligns with aerospace production demand
- Ensure supplier compliance with AS9100, ITAR, and EAR requirements, including proper flowdowns and audits
- Lead supply base transitions and sourcing shifts with zero impact to production or quality
- Drive procurement process improvement, ERP optimization, and adoption of sourcing best practices
- Oversee logistics, receiving, and warehouse strategy to ensure uninterrupted material flow to production
- Build, mentor, and lead a highperformance procurement organization
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, or related field
- 10 years of procurement, sourcing, or supply chain leadership experience
- Direct experience supporting aerospace and/or defense manufacturing environments
- Strong working knowledge of AS9100 quality systems and exportcontrolled supply chains
- Proven success negotiating with Tier 1 and Tier 2 aerospace suppliers
- Experience managing longlead, engineered, and regulated components
- Advanced ERP experience and strong Excel skills
- CPSM, CPM, or APICS (CSCP or CPIM) certifications preferred
Profile
- Strategic and handson procurement leader with aerospace domain expertise
- Comfortable influencing executive leadership and crossfunctional stakeholders
- Datadriven, operationally rigorous, and complianceoriented
- Experienced scaling procurement organizations in complex manufacturing environments
DSJ Global is a revolutionary search firm, specializing in the bespoke delivery of executive search solutions to clients.
Working across a number of niche industries and sectors across the US, UK, and Europe.
With offices in New York, Charlotte, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, London, Zurich, Berlin, Hong Kong and Singapore, DSJ Global operates on an international scale providing bespoke search packages which are unrivaled in the widespread recruitment market. Our aim is simple, to provide executive search level services which are flexible and tailored to the individual requirement of each client, on an unrivaled cost structure. We currently specialize in the areas of Procurement, Supply Chain, Logistics, OPEX, Finance and Human Resources.
We believe that every client should receive the benefit and accuracy of a search approach, whilst being able to dictate how, when and where it occurs, all on a fee structure to suit. Our revolutionary approach allows us to structure each assignment according to the requirements, time scales and budget available. We believe that for too long executive search firms have been too rigid in their approach and have been able to dictate how the search is conducted, leaving the client relatively powerless on the outcome.
Our service allows our clients to have increased control, direction and interaction in the search conducted on their behalf and has resulted in successful, on going relationships as search firm of choice with an ever expanding client group.
Working across a number of niche industries and sectors across the US, UK, and Europe.
With offices in New York, Charlotte, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, London, Zurich, Berlin, Hong Kong and Singapore, DSJ Global operates on an international scale providing bespoke search packages which are unrivaled in the widespread recruitment market. Our aim is simple, to provide executive search level services which are flexible and tailored to the individual requirement of each client, on an unrivaled cost structure. We currently specialize in the areas of Procurement, Supply Chain, Logistics, OPEX, Finance and Human Resources.
We believe that every client should receive the benefit and accuracy of a search approach, whilst being able to dictate how, when and where it occurs, all on a fee structure to suit. Our revolutionary approach allows us to structure each assignment according to the requirements, time scales and budget available. We believe that for too long executive search firms have been too rigid in their approach and have been able to dictate how the search is conducted, leaving the client relatively powerless on the outcome.
Our service allows our clients to have increased control, direction and interaction in the search conducted on their behalf and has resulted in successful, on going relationships as search firm of choice with an ever expanding client group.
Salary : $180,000 - $220,000