VP Global Supply Chain

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🌐 United Kingdom, United States – Remote

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔗 Supply Chain

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UFORCE

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501 - 1000 employees

🎖️ Defense

🔧 Hardware

🚀 Aerospace

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $50M Seed Round on 2026-03

Defense • Hardware • Aerospace

UFORCE is a developer and supplier of combat‑proven unmanned systems and integrated command-and-control/autonomy solutions for air, land, and sea operations. Their platforms are presented as battle-tested in Ukraine with thousands of combat missions and validated operational performance; the company emphasizes rapid iteration, sovereign production, and lower-cost deterrence compared with traditional military platforms. Offerings referenced include unmanned air (UAV), land, and sea platforms, C2/autonomy, intercept capabilities, and remote weapon station (RWS) integrations.

📋 Description

• Build category and supplier strategies balancing cost, quality, lead time and resilience across countries and programmes. • Establish the US supply chain by qualifying suppliers, arranging sourcing and logistics, and building material plans aligned with programme and production milestones. • Create a cross-site view of material readiness, critical shortages and recovery plans. • Identify single-source, long-lead and capacity constraints and implement mitigation plans. • Lead commercial negotiations, introduce supplier scorecards and hold partners accountable for delivery, quality and corrective actions. • Establish supplier qualification, traceability and counterfeit-part avoidance controls with Quality, Legal and Export Compliance. • Connect demand, bills of materials, supplier lead times and production schedules through sales and operations planning, ERP standards and reliable data. • Define the global team structure, hire and develop people, and establish responsibilities with site supply-chain leads. • Improve supplier delivery, material availability, lead times, inventory performance and landed cost.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience leading sourcing and supply-chain activity across multiple countries or manufacturing sites, with measurable delivery, cost or resilience improvements. • Strong understanding of complex hardware manufacturing and the connection between engineering changes, material availability and build schedules. • Track record of identifying supplier risk and implementing practical mitigations that protected production. • Experience translating demand and production priorities into credible material plans, including sales and operations planning or an equivalent cross-functional process. • Strong commercial judgement and negotiation skills, with the ability to resolve supplier quality, delivery or capacity issues while maintaining long-term relationships. • Experience building or significantly improving a supply-chain function in a growing organisation. • Experience building, developing and leading teams across locations, setting shared standards and delivering through site stakeholders. • Working knowledge of supplier assurance, traceability and applicable export controls, including UK and EU military and dual-use requirements and ITAR/EAR awareness. • Hands-on approach, clear prioritisation and judgement to act quickly when production is at risk. • Willingness to travel regularly across the US, UK and Europe. • Eligible for Security Clearance.

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