Unison Executive Materials & Delivery Leader

Job Description Summary

The Executive Materials & Delivery Leader will report to the Unison Supply Chain Leader with direct responsibility for overseeing the planning, scheduling, and coordination of materials to ensure timely delivery and efficient production operations. This role requires strong leadership, analytical skills, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to apply FLIGHT DECK fundamentals across the extended value stream to optimize inventory levels, minimize costs, and meet customer delivery requirements. This role will partner with Plant leaders and Customer program teams to ensure timely delivery of products and services to the customers

Job Description

Unison is the leading provider of differentiated engine controls, accessories, and performance monitoring solutions in the Aerospace, Defense & Space segments. Serving both original equipment manufacturers and aftermarket customers, Unison designs, manufactures and supplies the most advanced components and systems in the world.

Key Responsibilities:

Alignment of Supply constraint and customer demand:

• Maintain alignment of supply constraint at lead time as input into S&OP process.
• Lead and own the S&OE process
• Drive supplier readiness process to ensure demonstrated supply capability to meet mid/long term demand.
• Support Rough Cut Capacity Plan process ensuring people, machine, and material capability at lead time.
• Assess supplier demand allocation to ensure balance of supply continuity and lead time optimization.
• Accountable to create, train, support, and improve delivery & inventory management processes.

Production planning and execution:

• Define and reinforce replenishment strategy based on Supply Chain condition: level, pull, MTO, push.
• Standardize production planning process methodology to achieve customer Takt efficiently and deliver 90+% OTD for the business.
• Provide market intelligence to anticipate variation and volatility of actual demand vs consumption.
• Lead escalation support and problem solving where customer critical gap exists through operating cadences.
• Coach plant operations in cell level delivery and inventory KPI application resulting in Tier IV results.

Inventory planning and logistic strategy:

• Determine optimal inventory strategy and application at each step across the extended supply chain.
• Stabilize indirect raw material planning and consumption processes within supplier lead time.
• Optimize logistic flows driving balance of delivery lead time, frequency, and total logistic cost.
• Coach use of PFEP optimizing logistic cost, delivery frequency, storage strategy, and inventory coverage.
• Accountable for setting and meeting Unison inventory days/turns and logistic costs vs budget.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college.
• 10+ years of experience in supply chain management, materials planning, production planning, or logistics.
• Proven track record of leadership roles in supply chain or operations, preferably in manufacturing or aerospace industries.
• Experience with S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning) and S&OE (Sales and Operations Execution) processes.
• Demonstrated success in supplier readiness, capacity planning, and inventory optimization.
• Familiarity with lean manufacturing principles and continuous improvement methodologies (e.g., Kaizen, Hoshin Kanri, Standard Work).

Desired Characteristics:

• Demonstrated interpersonal and leadership skills through the use of GE leadership behaviors - Respect for People, Continuous Improvement and Customer-Driven.
• Uncompromising Safety and Quality first mindset.
• LEAN transformation experience / successful application of FLIGHT DECK.
• Demonstrated problem solving skills - both executing and in coaching others.
• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business Management - master's degree preferred.
• Knowledge of manufacturing processes, production planning, and production control.
• Ability to lead and influence in a matrix organization.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Influence skills within GEA and Suppliers - from Senior Executive to front line leaders.

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, employment will be contingent upon the ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident, U.S. Citizen, have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e., a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).

Additional Information

GE Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer . Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE Aerospace will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes