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Director of Supply Chain

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Downers Grove, IL, USA
210K-235K Annually
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Downers Grove, IL, USA
210K-235K Annually
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Lead end-to-end sourcing, procurement, and materials strategy for the Aerospace Division. Build and manage global sourcing, inventory planning, supplier development, and materials teams to improve OTD, reduce costs, optimize working capital, and support NPI and capacity transitions. Partner with Operations, Engineering, Quality, and Finance to strengthen supplier performance, drive enterprise commodity strategies, and scale best‑in‑class materials management across multi-site operations.
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Work Model: Work Model: You’ll work in a hybrid model, onsite at your designated Regal Rexnord location at least 3 days per week (Monday–Thursday), with flexibility to work remotely up to 2 days, including Friday.

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Position Summary

The Director, Supply Chain provides Division leadership for sourcing, procurement, and materials management across the Aerospace Division in Automation and Motion Control group at Regal Rexnord. This role is accountable for developing and executing integrated sourcing and materials strategies that enable business growth, improve OTD performance, optimize working capital, and deliver measurable cost and productivity improvements across a global, multi-site footprint.

This leader partners closely with Operations, Engineering, Quality, Finance, and Business Leadership to strengthen supplier performance, build organizational capability, and ensure a resilient, scalable supply chain aligned to both near-term execution and long-term strategic priorities.

Key Responsibilities

Divisional Strategy & Leadership

  • In partnership with the Enterprise Sourcing Team, define and execute the end-to-end sourcing and materials strategy across Aerospace plants, aligned to business, operational, and financial objectives.

  • Lead and develop a global organization spanning strategic sourcing, direct materials, inventory planning, supplier development, and materials management.

  • Establish clear operating models, governance, and accountability across businesses while enabling flexibility where business needs differ.

Sourcing & Supplier Management

  • Develop and deploy enterprise commodity strategies to drive cost, quality, delivery, and risk mitigation outcomes.

  • Lead supplier selection, negotiation, contracting, and performance management for critical suppliers across both businesses.

  • Strengthen supplier development and partnership models, including dual sourcing, localization, and risk mitigation strategies.

Materials Management & Execution Excellence

  • Drive standardized, best‑in‑class materials planning and inventory management practices across sites.

  • Accountable for performance across key KPIs including On-Time Delivery (OTD), inventory turns, working capital, PPV, and material cost productivity.

  • Partner with Operations to support production readiness, new product introductions, capacity transitions, and demand volatility.

Business Partnership & Integration

  • Act as a strategic advisor to Aerospace leadership teams on supply chain risks, trade-offs, and strategic investments.

  • Partner closely with Engineering and Quality to support new product development, supplier qualification, and cost-to-design initiatives.

  • Enable greater alignment and leverage across Aerospace plants through shared suppliers, processes, and analytics where appropriate.

People, Talent & Capability

  • Build strong leadership capability and succession across sourcing and materials teams.

  • Foster a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and collaboration across geographies and functions.

  • Lead organizational design, talent development, and capability-building to support future scale and complexity.

Qualifications

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Business, Engineering, or related field.

  • 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in sourcing, materials, or supply chain within complex, global manufacturing environments.

  • Demonstrated success leading multi-site, multi-business organizations with senior-level leadership accountability.

  • Strong experience in strategic sourcing, materials planning, inventory optimization, and supplier management.

  • Proven ability to drive measurable improvements in cost, delivery, quality, and working capital.

  • Up to 40% travel required

Preferred

  • Experience operating across multiple business units or segments with differing customer, product, and regulatory requirements.

  • Background in regulated or highly engineered manufacturing environments (e.g., industrial, motion control, defense, or aerospace).

  • Lean / Continuous Improvement expertise with a track record of enterprise transformation.

  • Advanced degree (MBA or equivalent) a plus.

Leadership Competencies

  • Enterprise and systems thinking

  • Strong executive presence and influencing skills

  • Data-driven decision making and financial acumen

  • Change leadership in complex environments

  • Talent development and organizational leadership

Compensation: 

Expected Base Salary Range: $210,000 - $235,000 

The salary range provided is intended to display the value of the company's base pay compensation for this position. Salary is dependent on a multitude of factors, including but not limited to the physical worksite location, the geographic market of that location, candidate's skill set, level of experience, education and internal peer compensation comparisons among other potential factors. 

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Benefits
  • Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Coverage
  • Spending accounts (HSA, Health Care FSA and Dependent Care FSA)
  • Paid Time Off and Holidays
  • 401k Retirement Plan with Matching Employer Contributions
  • Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
  • Paid Leaves
  • Tuition Assistance

About Regal Rexnord

Regal Rexnord is a publicly held global industrial manufacturer with 30,000 associates around the world who help create a better tomorrow by providing sustainable solutions that power, transmit and control motion. The Company’s electric motors and air moving subsystems provide the power to create motion. A portfolio of highly engineered power transmission components and subsystems efficiently transmits motion to power industrial applications. The Company’s automation offering, comprised of controls, actuators, drives, and precision motors, controls motion in applications ranging from factory automation to precision control in surgical tools.

The Company’s end markets benefit from meaningful secular demand tailwinds, and include factory automation, food & beverage, aerospace, medical, data center, warehouse, alternative energy, residential and commercial buildings, general industrial, construction, metals and mining, and agriculture.

Regal Rexnord is comprised of three operating segments: Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions, and Automation & Motion Control. Regal Rexnord has offices and manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide. For more information, including a copy of our Sustainability Report, visit RegalRexnord.com.


Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Regal Rexnord is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, ancestry, national origin, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status (unless required by the applicable law or government contract), disability or protected veteran status or any other status or characteristic protected by law. Regal Rexnord is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are committed to building a team that represents diverse and inclusive backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.  If you’d like to view a copy of the company’s affirmative action plan for protected veterans/individuals with disabilities or policy statement, please email [email protected]. If you have a disability and you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to submit an online application, please e-mail [email protected].

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