Director of Supply Chain

SilencerCo; West Valley City (UT); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

SilencerCo in West Valley City, UT seeks a Director of Supply Chain to lead the purchasing organization, backfill the purchasing manager seat, and own end-to-end strategic sourcing and supplier management. This build-and-run role matures purchasing practices with Lean/kanban, establishes supplier terms framework, and coordinates with Planning to keep buying aligned with production needs.

You will lead and develop the purchasing team while partnering with Engineering, Quality, Production, and

Responsibilities

• Own overall purchasing strategy, budget, and performance across BOM materials, outside services, and consumables.
• Develop and mentor Senior Buyer and Junior Buyer teams, including workload allocation.
• Set purchasing policy and standard work to ensure consistent practices.
• Manage supplier relationships for key/strategic suppliers, including escalations.
• Lead negotiation strategy, contract structures, and payment terms with internal counsel.
• Coordinate with Planning to align supplier lead times and production schedules.
• Drive Lean principles and kanban/pull systems across the organization.
• Ensure ATF/ITAR/EAR compliance and maintain supplier documentation.
• Represent purchasing in executive-level reporting and cross-functional reviews.
• Perform other duties to support the broader Supply Chain team.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Supplier management

Leadership

Negotiation

Lean purchasing

Kanban

Job description

Company: SilencerCo
Location: West Valley, UT
Schedule: Full-Time | On-Site
Reports To: VP of Supply Chain and Planning
Direct Reports: Senior Buyers, Junior Buyer

Position Overview

The Director of Supply Chain leads SilencerCo's purchasing organization, backfilling the purchasing manager seat with expanded scope and authority. This role owns strategic sourcing and supplier management end to end - architecting the systems, standard processes, and team structure that let purchasing scale with the business.
This is a build-and-run role. In addition to managing the purchasing team day to day, the Director is responsible for maturing SilencerCo's purchasing practices: extending Lean/kanban principles across the organization, operationalizing the company's first formal supplier terms and conditions framework, and establishing the standard work that lets Senior Buyers focus on BOM sourcing and the Junior Buyer focus on consumables. Demand forecasting, S&OP, and production planning/MRP all sit with a separate Planning function reporting directly to the VP of Supply Chain and Planning; this role owns purchasing and supplier management, and coordinates closely with Planning to keep buying activity aligned with production needs.
Transition Support: Specific onboarding and transition support - including cadence for assuming full team leadership - will be discussed and finalized with the VP of Supply Chain and Planning during the hiring process.

Primary Responsibilities

Purchasing Leadership

• Own overall purchasing strategy, budget, and performance across BOM materials, outside services, and consumables.
• Manage and develop the Senior Buyer and Junior Buyer team, including workload allocation between BOM and consumables scope.
• Set purchasing policy and standard work; ensure consistent practices across buyers rather than tribal knowledge.
• Own supplier relationship strategy for key/strategic suppliers, including escalations Senior Buyers can't resolve at their level.
• Drive negotiation strategy, contract structure, and payment terms in partnership with the buying team and inside counsel.

Planning Coordination

• Partner with the Planning Manager to ensure supplier lead times, purchase order timing, and buyer capacity support MRP signals and production schedules.
• Escalate and help resolve supply-side shortages, reschedules, and backorders driven by supplier performance.
• Keep purchasing informed of upcoming demand shifts communicated through Planning so buyers can react ahead of need rather than after a shortage.

Systems & Process Architecture

• Own the ongoing rollout and governance of the consumables kanban/pull system, ensuring it scales as SilencerCo grows.
• Operationalize SilencerCo's Theory-of-Constraints-grounded supplier terms and conditions framework across the supply base, in partnership with inside counsel.
• Champion Lean purchasing principles across the organization - not just within the buying team - identifying where standard work, visual management, and pull systems can reduce waste.
• Build the standard processes, documentation, and metrics that let the purchasing organization operate consistently as it grows and as personnel change.

Regulatory Compliance

• Ensure purchasing and supplier practices comply with ATF, ITAR, and EAR requirements for controlled and export-relevant parts.
• Maintain supplier-side documentation and audit readiness in partnership with inside counsel and Compliance.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Partner with the VP of Supply Chain and Planning on the broader purchasing organization restructure, including team structure and role definition.
• Work closely with Engineering, Quality, Production, and Finance on ECOs, NPI sourcing, supplier quality issues, and cost initiatives.
• Represent purchasing in executive-level reporting and reviews.

Other Duties

• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned to support the wider Supply Chain organization.

Success Metrics (Results)

• On-time delivery to production and overall supplier performance across the purchasing team.
• Consumables kanban system coverage, health, and scalability as key categories are added.
• Adoption and rollout of