Chief Supply Chain Officer

Veterans Health Administration; Aurora (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs seeks a Chief Supply Chain Officer (CSCO) for a VA Health Care System with multiple sites and a broad catchment area.

The CSCO will develop and integrate a cohesive, forward-looking supply chain to meet logistical requirements across sites of care. Qualifications include 1 year of specialized experience at GS-13 level or higher, with demonstrated leadership in supply chain management, acquisition, purchasing, transportation, and inventory control.

Qualifications

• One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least GS-13 in the Federal service.
• Experience as a senior supply chain leader/supervisor ensuring logistical requirements are met.
• Knowledge in acquisition, purchasing, transportation, distribution, and inventory control.

Skills

Supply chain leadership

Planning & coordination

Budget forecasting

Acquisition management

Purchasing

Transportation

Inventory management

Warehouse operations

Job description

The Chief Supply Chain Officer (CSCO) is the senior supply chain management (SCM) officer for a VA Health Care System (VA HCS) with multiple sites of care and supported catchment area, responsible for development and integration of a cohesive, forward-looking supply chain that ensures logistical requirements of the VA HCS with multiple sites of care and supported catchment area are met.

Qualifications: To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 11/04/2026. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-14 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-13. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. You may qualify based on your experience as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-13 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: serving as a senior supply chain management leader/supervisor, responsible for ensuring the logistical requirements of an organization are met; planning/coordinating and evaluating various operations to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of a logistics program. Areas of knowledge and skill should include acquisition management, purchasing, transportation, distribution, inventory management and control, expendable and non-expendable equipment, and warehouse operations; experience with budget formulation and forecasting of expenditures. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.