Head of Avionics & Systems Strategic Sourcing

Air Transport Services Group,Inc.; Wilmington (OH); Vor Ort; USD 140.000 - 190.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Air Transport Services Group, Inc. is seeking a Sr Manager, Strategic Sourcing Lead for Avionics & Systems to build and lead enterprise category management across avionics, electrical, cockpit and monitoring systems.

Leverage analytics and responsible AI to reduce cost, improve supplier performance, and strengthen aircraft reliability and dispatch. You will develop multi-year strategies, segment suppliers, negotiate long-term agreements and coach a matrixed sourcing organization while aligning

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, engineering or related field.
• 10+ years of strategic sourcing or procurement experience, including 5+ years in aerospace.
• Proven category-management results involving avionics, electrical systems, flight controls, aircraft systems or other highly technical aerospace categories.
• Success negotiating component support, repair management, PBH or long-term support agreements with OEMs and MRO providers.
• Working knowledge of FAA requirements, airworthiness documentation and AS9100/AS9120.
• Advanced data integration, financial and operational modeling, and scenario and sensitivity analysis.
• Responsible use of AI and digital tools with validation, confidentiality, governance and human oversight; and experience leading and developing procurement teams.

Aufgaben

• Develop and execute multi-year strategies for avionics and cockpit systems; electrical generation, distribution and LRUs; flight control and aircraft monitoring systems; and pneumatic, environmental and related components.
• Segment suppliers, build should-cost models, evaluate make/buy/repair and alternative sourcing options with Engineering, and improve dispatch reliability, AOG exposure and maintenance economics.
• Lead competitive sourcing and negotiate repair management, exchange, pooling, component support, PBH and long-term maintenance agreements.
• Negotiate price, escalation, turnaround, warranty, NTE and BER terms.
• Support fleet growth, avionics modernization, flight-control support and major maintenance events; balance owned, leased and exchange rotable assets while leveraging enterprise scale.
• Manage supplier performance through scorecards, QBRs and corrective action with Quality.
• Mitigate single-source dependencies, electronic-component availability constraints, supplier financial-health and repair-capacity risks.
• Develop resilient strategic supplier partnerships.
• Maintain approved-supplier controls and applicable FAA Part 121/145, DoD/CRAF, ITAR and DFARS compliance.
• Partner with Maintenance, Engineering, Materials, Fleet Planning and Finance to align sourcing decisions with fleet reliability and budgets.
• Report finance-validated savings, cost avoidance and working-capital impact.
• Prepare executive business cases and decision-ready analyses linking cost, reliability and risk; and apply advanced analytics and responsibly governed AI to sourcing and supplier management.
• Lead and develop a matrixed sourcing organization.
• Coach category managers and buyers.
• Establish repeatable sourcing processes and playbooks.
• Champion practical adoption of analytics, AI and digital procurement tools with appropriate validation, human oversight, governance and data protection.

Kenntnisse

Strategic sourcing

Category management

Data analytics

Financial modeling

Leadership

Negotiation

AI governance

Procurement

Cross-functional collaboration

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree

MBA or advanced degree

Jobbeschreibung

Air Transport Services Group, Inc. is seeking a Sr Manager, Strategic Sourcing Lead for Avionics & Systems to build and lead enterprise category management across avionics, electrical, cockpit and monitoring systems.

Leverage analytics and responsible AI to reduce cost, improve supplier performance, and strengthen aircraft reliability and dispatch. You will develop multi-year strategies, segment suppliers, negotiate long-term agreements and coach a matrixed sourcing organization while aligning