Global Supply Chain Director

Your days center on leading supply chain across an organization's global footprint — sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, and demand planning across countries, currencies, and regulatory regimes. Most weeks include strategy reviews, supplier relationship meetings, cross-functional planning sessions, and the firefighting that comes when macro events rewrite the plan.

The workflow blends strategic planning with crisis management — you're designing the supply chain network, negotiating strategic supplier partnerships, building risk mitigation programs, and presenting to the board on supply chain resilience, while also managing the daily reality of tariff changes, port strikes, and supplier disruptions. Half strategist, half firefighter — the balance shifts depending on what's happening in the world.

The key challenge is building resilience without making the supply chain too expensive. Every redundancy costs money, every additional supplier adds complexity, and every inventory buffer ties up capital. Your job is finding the right level of protection that keeps the business running through disruptions without destroying the cost structure that makes the business competitive.