What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Supply Chain Managment position at Tritium?
About The Role
Reporting to the VP of Manufacturing, you will set the strategic direction for global sourcing and procurement, leading a high-performing supply chain organization across multiple regions. This role serves as a key executive partner in driving innovation, cost leadership, and operational resilience, ensuring Tritium maintains a sustainable competitive advantage in the procurement of capital, materials, and services worldwide. This role is based in Middle Tennessee.
What You'll Do
Reporting to the VP of Manufacturing, you will set the strategic direction for global sourcing and procurement, leading a high-performing supply chain organization across multiple regions. This role serves as a key executive partner in driving innovation, cost leadership, and operational resilience, ensuring Tritium maintains a sustainable competitive advantage in the procurement of capital, materials, and services worldwide. This role is based in Middle Tennessee.
What You'll Do
- Procurement & Sourcing: Define and own the enterprise-wide procurement and category sourcing vision, setting multi-year strategies for supplier selection, contract negotiations, and total cost of ownership while ensuring supply continuity and long-term competitive positioning.
- New Product Introduction & Technology Roadmap: Champion supply chain integration at the executive level across all product development initiatives, shaping technology roadmaps, directing contract manufacturer relationships, and establishing Tritium as a leader in emerging supply technologies.
- Supplier & Risk Management: Direct enterprise-wide supplier governance, strategic rationalization, and performance frameworks while setting organizational risk tolerance and leading mitigation strategies across all supply chain risk categories (commodities, lead times, obsolescence, logistics, geopolitical, cyber).
- Compliance & Trade: Establish and enforce global trade compliance policies, proactively navigating tariff regimes, customs frameworks, and evolving international trade regulations to protect margin and ensure uninterrupted operations.
- Operational Efficiency: Set the strategic direction for end-to-end supply chain infrastructure, overseeing systems architecture, freight strategy, warehouse network design, and material flow to achieve best-in-class delivery performance and cost structure.
- Performance & Data Insights: Own the supply chain analytics and reporting function, establishing KPIs and executive dashboards that enable data-driven decision-making at the board and C-suite level, and driving a culture of continuous performance improvement.
- Process Improvement & Collaboration: Champion enterprise-wide transformation initiatives, partnering with leadership to align supply chain strategy with business objectives and drive measurable improvements in cost, speed, and quality.
- Leadership & Talent Development: Architect and evolve a world-class global supply chain organization, defining structure, capabilities, and succession plans while attracting, developing, and retaining top-tier talent.
- Proven executive track record in building and scaling global supplier partnerships, with demonstrated success in high-value strategic contract negotiations.
- Deep experience integrating global procurement strategies with product development and technology roadmaps at a senior leadership level.
- Advanced ability to translate complex supply chain data into executive-level insights and board-ready reporting that drives strategic decisions.
- Recognized expert in designing and implementing enterprise risk governance frameworks across multifaceted, global supply chain environments.
- Demonstrated success leading enterprise-wide transformation programs that deliver step-change improvements in operational excellence and manufacturing performance.
- Executive-level influencer who shapes organizational strategy by building alignment across C-suite, product, finance, and operations stakeholders.
- Extensive experience leading supply chain organizations across multiple geographies, navigating cultural complexity and diverse regulatory environments.
- Visionary, customer-centric leader who sets bold goals, holds teams accountable, and consistently delivers results in fast-moving, high growth environments.
- Sophisticated financial and commercial acumen, with the ability to model, defend, and optimize multi-million-dollar supply chain budgets and investment cases.
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering or a related field.
- 10 years of supply chain experience, with at least 5 years in senior leadership roles.
- Experience in the electronics and automotive industry
- Strong background in manufacturing environments.
- Expertise in Lean & Six Sigma methodologies.
Salary : $150,000 - $190,000