Senior Global Defense Supply Strategist

Castelion Corporation; Torrance (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Castelion is seeking a Global Supply Manager to shape enterprise-wide supply strategies across global markets and commodities. You will act as a trusted advisor to executives and technical leaders, driving supplier decisions with influence and end-to-end ownership in an IC role.

You will lead complex supplier negotiations, cost optimization, and supplier-performance initiatives, while ensuring compliance with security, export controls, and contractual requirements. Travel 20-25% is required.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive experience in strategic sourcing, purchasing, global supply management, commodity management, supply chain, manufacturing, or related field.
• Expert-level experience in at least one defense, aerospace, advanced-manufacturing, or similarly regulated purchasing commodity.
• Documented success leading enterprise-scale sourcing strategies, complex negotiations, critical supplier relationships, and high-impact cross-functional decisions as an IC.

Responsibilities

• Own enterprise and multi-program supply strategies for critical commodities, technologies, suppliers, and supply-chain capabilities from early development through sustained production.
• Lead the most complex supplier selections, strategic negotiations, long-term agreements, capacity reservations, tooling investments, and make/buy analyses.
• Create durable competitive advantage through supplier innovation, design-to-cost, standardization, strategic partnerships, alternate technologies, localization or regionalization strategies, and total-cost optimization.
• Partner with senior engineering, program, quality, manufacturing, finance, legal, security, and executive stakeholders to resolve high-impact tradeoffs involving cost, schedule, quality, technical performance, capacity, and risk.
• Travel to supplier/vendor sites 20-25% of the time.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Negotiation

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in supply chain, engineering, or related field

Equivalent experience

Tools

Excel

SQL

Job description

Castelion is seeking a Global Supply Manager to shape enterprise-wide supply strategies across global markets and commodities. You will act as a trusted advisor to executives and technical leaders, driving supplier decisions with influence and end-to-end ownership in an IC role.

You will lead complex supplier negotiations, cost optimization, and supplier-performance initiatives, while ensuring compliance with security, export controls, and contractual requirements. Travel 20-25% is required.