Supply Chain and Supplier Management Lead

ACT1 Federal LLC.; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESOP

Life and AD&D Insurance

Short‑term Disability

Long‑term Disability

FSA

HSA

401K with employer match

Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Military Leave

Education & Training

Job summary

ACT1 Federal LLC is seeking a senior Lead for Supply Chain and Supplier Management in the Arlington, VA area. You will map prime and lower-tier supplier networks, assess risk, and drive recovery strategies to ensure production continuity for defense portfolios.

You will coordinate with government and industry stakeholders, prepare executive briefings, and guide supplier recovery plans, with a focus on complex manufacturing and defense supply chains.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in supply chain management, business, engineering, operations management, logistics, acquisition, or related discipline.
• 10+ years’ experience in supply-chain management, supplier management, manufacturing, production, acquisition, logistics, or closely related field.
• Demonstrated experience evaluating supplier capability, capacity, delivery, quality, risk, and recovery actions within complex manufacturing or defense supply chains.
• Experience working with prime contractors and lower-tier suppliers to identify root causes, validate constraints, and develop executable corrective actions.
• Knowledge of production and supplier measures such as capacity, throughput, cycle time, lead time, backlog, on-time delivery, quality, and schedule performance.
• Experience preparing executive assessments and recommendations and leading cross-functional engagements with Government and industry stakeholders.
• Active Top Secret Clearance required.

Responsibilities

• Map prime contractor and critical lower-tier supplier networks for assigned weapon and weapon-system portfolios, including sources, locations, dependencies, and points of failure.
• Identify sole-source and single-point dependencies, long-lead materials, obsolescence, fragile subtiers, qualification barriers, foreign dependencies, and other threats to production continuity.
• Collect and validate supplier data on demand, capacity, backlog, lead time, on‑time delivery, quality, yield, workforce, tooling, material, and financial or operational stress.
• Establish supplier‑risk baselines, heat maps, watch lists, leading indicators, and escalation criteria that distinguish verified constraints from unsupported assertions.
• Assess supplier capability, capacity, production readiness, quality performance, delivery reliability, management controls, and ability to meet current and forecast demand.
• Lead structured engagements, site visits, data reviews, and working sessions with program offices, prime contractors, suppliers, DCMA, and other authorized stakeholders.
• Evaluate supplier recovery plans, capacity‑expansion proposals, capital requests, schedules, assumptions, dependencies, and measurable production outcomes.
• Develop and recommend corrective actions addressing material, labor, equipment, tooling, test, quality, facilities, engineering, planning, and lower‑tier constraints.
• Monitor milestones and results; identify emerging variance and recommend escalation, alternate sourcing, supplier development, investment, or other intervention when warranted.
• Serve as the senior supply‑chain and supplier‑management advisor to the BOND team for assigned PAE and weapon‑system priorities.
• Integrate supplier findings with production, schedule, cost, investment, engineering, and program data to determine mission and delivery effects.
• Coordinate actions across DASN DIB, PAEs, program offices, systems commands, contracting, engineering, logistics, financial management, and industry stakeholders.
• Prepare executive briefings, supplier assessments, alternatives analyses, issue papers, action plans, and decision memoranda with clear owners, milestones, risks, and recommendations.

Skills

Supply chain management

Supplier management

Risk assessment

Executive briefings

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant field

Tools

DCMA liaison

Job description

Supply Chain and Supplier Management Lead

Arlington, VA

Position Title: Supply Chain and Supplier Management Lead

Category: Funded

Schedule (FT/PT): Full Time

Travel Required: Yes

Shift: Day

Remote Type: Hybrid

Clearance required: Top Secret clearance required

Who is ACT1 Federal? ACT1 Federal LLC is a 100% employee-owned company. We’ve served the Department of War (DoW) for nearly thirty years. Our core missions include weapon systems engineering, logistics, space domain expertise, global defense and security, business and financial management for security assistance and major defense articles, as well as military training and arctic security. Join us!

Description: ACT1 Federal is seeking an experienced Supply Chain and Supplier Management Lead to provide multi-tier supplier mapping, risk segmentation, supplier-capacity analysis, and Government-authorized recovery planning.

Responsibilities:

Supply Chain Analysis and Risk Visibility:

• Map prime contractor and critical lower-tier supplier networks for assigned weapon and weapon-system portfolios, including sources, locations, dependencies, and points of failure.
• Identify sole-source and single-point dependencies, long-lead materials, obsolescence, fragile subtiers, qualification barriers, foreign dependencies, and other threats to production continuity.
• Collect and validate supplier data on demand, capacity, backlog, lead time, on‑time delivery, quality, yield, workforce, tooling, material, and financial or operational stress.
• Establish supplier‑risk baselines, heat maps, watch lists, leading indicators, and escalation criteria that distinguish verified constraints from unsupported assertions.

Supplier Performance and Recovery:

• Assess supplier capability, capacity, production readiness, quality performance, delivery reliability, management controls, and ability to meet current and forecast demand.
• Lead structured engagements, site visits, data reviews, and working sessions with program offices, prime contractors, suppliers, DCMA, and other authorized stakeholders.
• Evaluate supplier recovery plans, capacity‑expansion proposals, capital requests, schedules, assumptions, dependencies, and measurable production outcomes.
• Develop and recommend corrective actions addressing material, labor, equipment, tooling, test, quality, facilities, engineering, planning, and lower‑tier constraints.
• Monitor milestones and results; identify emerging variance and recommend escalation, alternate sourcing, supplier development, investment, or other intervention when warranted.

Decision Support:

• Serve as the senior supply‑chain and supplier‑management advisor to the BOND team for assigned PAE and weapon‑system priorities.
• Integrate supplier findings with production, schedule, cost, investment, engineering, and program data to determine mission and delivery effects.
• Coordinate actions across DASN DIB, PAEs, program offices, systems commands, contracting, engineering, logistics, financial management, and industry stakeholders.
• Prepare executive briefings, supplier assessments, alternatives analyses, issue papers, action plans, and decision memoranda with clear owners, milestones, risks, and recommendations.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in supply chain management, business, engineering, operations management, logistics, acquisition, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years’ experience in supply‑chain management, supplier management, manufacturing, production, acquisition, logistics, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated experience evaluating supplier capability, capacity, delivery, quality, risk, and recovery actions within complex manufacturing or defense supply chains.
• Experience working with prime contractors and lower‑tier suppliers to identify root causes, validate constraints, and develop executable corrective actions.
• Knowledge of production and supplier measures such as capacity, throughput, cycle time, lead time, yield, backlog, on‑time delivery, quality, and schedule performance.
• Experience preparing executive assessments and recommendations and leading cross‑functional engagements with Government and industry stakeholders.
• Active Top Secret Clearance required.
• ACT1 Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• Company Paid Life and AD&D Insurance
• Company Paid Short‑Term Disability
• Voluntary Long‑Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• 401K with employer match
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• Military Leave
• Education, Training & Professional Development
• Voluntary Accidental Injury/Critical Illness/Hospital Care
• Voluntary Pet Insurance, Legal Resources, and Identity Protection

Our people‑first culture prioritizes the benefits of flexibility and collaboration, whether that happens in person or remotely.

• If this position is listed as remote or hybrid, you’ll periodically work from a ACT1 Federal or client site facility.
• If this position is listed as onsite, you’ll work with colleagues and clients in person, as needed for the specific role.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.