Role Summary
The Director of Supply Chain - Americas is accountable for executing regional Supply Chain operations that support high-volume, high-precision manufacturing of liquid and gas flow control components and assemblies for semiconductor applications. The role ensures clear-to-build readiness, continuity of supply, delivery performance, cost control, and supplier scalability across assigned manufacturing sites.
This position serves as a primary customer-facing Supply Chian leader, responsible for translating material readiness, supplier constraints, and recovery actions into clear, credible, and aligned customer communication. The Director owns regional Clear-to-Build (CTB) execution and is accountable for ensuring procurement signals, supplier commitments, and ERP data align to production and customer requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership
- Build, develop, and lead a high-performing regional Supply Chain organization, including buyers, procurement managers, customer supply chain managers, commodity managers, and shared services interfaces.
- Serve as the senior Supply Chain partner to regional Operations, Engineering, Quality, and Program teams.
- Establish standard work, operating cadence, and escalation mechanisms for Supply Chain execution and CTB alignment.
Customer Interface & Clear-to-Build Ownership
- Serve as a primary interface to customers on supply chain readiness, material readiness, delivery risks, and recovery actions.
- Own Clear-to-Build (CTB) execution for the region, ensuring a single, aligned view of material availability, constraints, and readiness to support build plans.
- Translate supplier constraints, capacity limitations, and lead-time realities into fact-based, externally credible customer communication.
- Partner with Program Management, and Operations to ensure consistent messaging and containment of customer escalations.
- Lead regional response to CTB misalignments, including root cause definition, corrective action planning, and recovery execution.
- Ensure early visibility of supply chain risks to customers, with clear mitigation plans and ownership.
- Define and lead regional commodity and sourcing strategies ensure adequate capacity and capability are in place to support the businesses needs
Supplier Performance & Execution Management
- Own supplier delivery performance, capacity commitments, and responsiveness for production and ramp requirements.
- Manage strategic supplier relationships at the execution level to ensure adherence to quality, delivery, and commercial commitments.
- Lead supplier performance reviews, corrective action plans, and recovery actions for at-risk suppliers.
- Define and Execute dual-source and resiliency strategies
Cost, Quality & Delivery Excellence
- Execute year-over-year cost improvement through negotiations, commercial optimization, and regional execution of global agreements.
- Ensure suppliers meet semiconductor-grade requirements for quality, cleanliness, traceability, and process discipline.
- Partner with Quality and Engineering on supplier audits, PPAPs, ECO execution, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Ensure supply chain readiness for production ramps, customer demand volatility, and technology transitions.
Supply Chain Risk, Resilience & Escalation Management
- Proactively identify and mitigate regional supply risks related to capacity, logistics, geopolitical exposure, and single-source dependencies.
- Lead regional escalation management during supply disruptions, including containment, customer communication, and recovery tracking.
- Support NPI and factory expansions with early supplier capacity validation and execution readiness.
- Align supply chain actions with customer resiliency requirements (ISA, POLTR, liability protections).
Systems, Data Integrity & CTB Enablement
- Own procurement execution accuracy within ERP systems (item master, source rules, pricing, blanket POs, lead times).
- Ensure data integrity to support CTB, MRP signals, supplier commitments, and customer-facing readiness views.
- Drive standard CTB reporting and dashboards in partnership with analytics and planning teams.
- Partner with global teams on Oracle enhancements that improve CTB visibility and supply chain execution.
Cross-Functional & Global Alignment
- Execute global commodity strategies within the Asia region, providing feedback on supplier performance, capacity, and execution risks.
- Collaborate with Engineering on design-for-supply, localization, and manufacturability initiatives.
- Support manufacturing footprint and make/buy decisions with regional execution insights.
- Provide regular executive-level reporting on CTB health, supplier performance, cost, and risk.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, or related field; MBA or Master's preferred.
- 15+ years of progressive supply chain leadership experience,
- Strong experience supporting semiconductor manufacturing or adjacent high-precision industries (semiconductor equipment, gas delivery, vacuum systems, precision machining).
- Demonstrated expertise managing customer-facing supply chain execution and CTB in high-mix, high-volatility environments.
- Proven success leading supplier performance, escalations, and recovery in multi-country supply networks.
- Strong executive communication skills with both internal leadership and external customers.
- Experience leading teams across cultures and geographies