The Director, Subcontracts & Procurement - Modernization is responsible for the management of a team of subcontracts administrators, technical buyers, and proposal support personnel with oversight responsibility for all sourcing, negotiation, and execution related activities for the Modernization Business Area within Ordnance Systems, Inc. (OSI), within the Platform & Services Segment of BAE Systems, Inc.
This role serves as the senior functional lead and a hands-on subcontract manager for modernization efforts, ensuring talent development and oversight of the team (approx. 5 persons), compliance with company policies and government regulations, and supplier delivery per contractual requirements. The Director partners closely with Operations, Engineering, Modernization Program Management, Finance, Contracts, and Business Development to successfully execute major capital investments, facility modernization efforts, and infrastructure projects.
- This role can be based out of Falls Church, VA; Radford, VA; or Kingsport, TN. There may be consideration for this role to be remote from other US locations with more travel.
- This position would ideally be a hybrid where you go onsite three days each week.
- There will be 25%-50% travel required.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Strategic Leadership: Develop and align enterprise supply chain strategies with OSI’s modernization objectives, advising leaders on market conditions and execution risks while improving cost, schedule, quality, supplier performance, and resilience.
- Procurement and Strategic Sourcing: Lead strategic sourcing and procurement for modernization projects, negotiating supplier agreements and managing market and supplier risks to optimize cost, quality, delivery, and innovation.
- Subcontracts and Commercial Management: Lead compliant, end-to-end subcontract management for modernization projects, balancing cost, schedule, performance, and risk while resolving commercial issues and supporting supplier-diversity objectives.
- Estimating and Proposal Support: Lead supply chain estimating, cost analysis, and cross-functional proposal strategy to deliver accurate, competitive, and executable modernization plans.
- Project Execution and Logistics: Lead project logistics and supplier coordination to ensure timely delivery and deployment while resolving constraints and mitigating execution risks.
- Risk, Compliance, and Governance: Ensure regulatory compliance, audit readiness, and effective governance while identifying and mitigating commercial, supplier, contractual, schedule, and operational risks.
- Leadership and Talent Development: Build and develop high-performing supply chain teams through clear accountability, performance management, succession planning, capability building, and employee engagement.
