Senior Supply Chain Manager

Senior Supply Chain Manager / Procurement Chaos CoordinatorOrange County, California | On-siteDo beautifully organized supply chains bore you? Excellent.My client is a rapidly growing advanced manufacturing startup serving some of the most demanding engineering-driven industries on the planet. They need someone who can walk into procurement chaos, make sense of it, build the systems, and eventually create something magnificent.Why You Should ApplyBuild a supply chain from the ground upWork directly with the COO, CEO, engineering, and operationsBecome the person who prevents “WE’RE OUT OF WHAT?!” meetings$130,000 to $170,000 base salaryEquity option grants. Help build the company and have an opportunity to participate in the upside you help create.Full medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance401(k) retirement planUnlimited PTO + 9 company holidays. Yes, please actually take vacations.What You’ll Be DoingTake ownership of direct and indirect procurementBuild demand planning, inventory, budgeting, and purchasing systemsHunt shortages before they become five-alarm firesNegotiate contracts, pricing, terms, and capital purchasesMake suppliers behave. Find better ones when necessary.Help engineering get what they need without creating an obstacle courseBuild a supply chain capable of surviving serious growthBe equally comfortable building the three-year roadmap and chasing down a missing shipment at 4:47 p.m.About YouYou can actually do the job described aboveYou feel strangely at home in startups, ambiguity, and rooms containing suspiciously blank whiteboardsYou can set the strategy and still happily cut a PO when Tuesday gets weirdYou understand manufacturing supply chains and what happens when materials do not show upYou are comfortable working across procurement, suppliers, inventory, planning, engineering, and operationsYou have experience building processes instead of simply inheriting themBonus points if ITAR, AS9100, aerospace, defense, composites, or other regulated manufacturing environments already feel familiarYou experience a small involuntary eye twitch when someone says, “That’s how we’ve always done it.”This is an on-site role in Orange County, California.If you want a perfectly mature supply chain with every process documented, every supplier behaving, and every system humming quietly in the background, this may not be your role.If you like building things, fixing things, solving problems, and leaving behind something dramatically better than what you inherited, we should probably talk.