Director – Business Unit Supply Chain

A Day in Your Life at MKS:

You will be the senior supply chain leader embedded in Power Solutions, connecting commercial and product priorities with supplier and operational capabilities. In partnership with Global Supply Chain and the Power Solutions leadership team, you will shape supply strategies, strengthen critical suppliers, enable new-product and production ramps, and resolve persistent supply constraints. You will create fact-based visibility, bring the right functions together, and ensure that strategic initiatives and recovery plans move from decision to sustained result. In this role, you will report to the Vice President & General Manager of the Power Solutions businesses.

You Will Make an Impact By:

• Turn Power Solutions growth plans, customer obligations, and product and technology roadmaps into an actionable supply strategy with clear priorities and required capabilities.

• Act as the principal Power Solutions counterpart to Global Supply Chain, ensuring business needs, tradeoffs, decisions, and accountabilities are understood and aligned.

• Build forward-looking views of demand, supplier capacity, material exposure, and concentration risk to identify gaps before they affect business execution.

• Shape plans for critical suppliers based on capability, capacity, quality, economics, investment commitment, and scalability, including development, expansion, transition, or replacement where appropriate.

• Guide qualification and ramp of additional sources for high-risk technologies and components, coordinating technical, quality, operational, and customer-approval requirements.

• Partner with Global Supply Chain and suppliers on capacity investments, strategic agreements, regional supply options, and risk-reduction plans that support sustainable growth.

• Drive durable correction of recurring shortages and supplier issues by addressing underlying process, capacity, design, quality, or ownership gaps rather than relying on repeated expedites.

• Enable NPI and production transitions by bringing sourcing, manufacturability, supplier readiness, material availability, and scale requirements into the process early.

• Balance immediate delivery and revenue needs with longer-term objectives for resilience, cost, inventory, and supply-base health.

• Create an effective operating cadence with concise metrics, clear owners, timely decisions, and executive escalation for the most important supply risks and initiatives.

• Coordinate Engineering, Product Management, Program Management, Operations, Quality, Finance, and Supply Chain support around agreed Business Unit priorities without displacing functional accountability.

• Travel domestically and internationally up to 50%.

Skills You Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, Business, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience. An advanced degree is preferred.

• 12 or more years of progressive experience across supply chain, sourcing, supplier development, operations, engineering, manufacturing, or program leadership in a complex technical business.

• Experience translating business and product strategies into supplier, capacity, sourcing, and continuity plans that deliver measurable results.

• Proven success developing and scaling suppliers, qualifying new sources, managing transitions, and supporting production ramps.

• Demonstrated ability to resolve chronic supply problems through structured analysis, cross-functional action, and sustained follow-through.

• Strong judgment across capacity, cost, quality, lead time, inventory, technical requirements, and business risk.

• Ability to lead through influence, align senior stakeholders, and mobilize resources in a global matrixed organization.

• Clear executive communication, negotiation, problem-solving, and escalation-management skills.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in semiconductor capital equipment, RF and/or power electronics, precision components, or comparable advanced-manufacturing markets.

• Experience expanding a global supply base and developing suppliers in new regions.

• Working knowledge of ERP and material-planning systems, engineering changes, revision-controlled materials, shortages, and production transfers.

• Familiarity with electronics, PCB assemblies, thermal-management components, cables, fabricated metals, machining, and electromechanical products.

• CPIM, CSCP, and/or APICS certification preferred.

Physical Demands and Working Conditions:

• Able to perform activities such as sitting, standing, or typing for extended periods and to communicate and exchange accurate information.

• Works in professional office, laboratory, and manufacturing environments where noise levels are generally moderate.

We are interested in a qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we will not be sponsoring work visas for this position, at this time.

This position is HYBRID and within commutable distance to our location in Rochester, NY. Relocation benefits are available for this position.

 

Compensation and Benefits:

Salary Pay Range: The salary range for this role is $168,000 to $280,000 per year. This range is a good faith estimate of the expected salary range for this position, based on a wide range of factors including qualifications, experience and training, operational and business needs and other considerations permitted by law.  At MKS, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for the role.

Bonus: This position is eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, in an amount to be determined by MKS.

Benefits: MKS offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance coverage (medical, dental and vision), 401(k) with company match, life and disability insurance, 12 paid holidays, sick time, 15 paid vacation days, parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement.

Globally, our policy is to recruit individuals from wide and diverse backgrounds. However, certain positions require access to controlled goods and technologies subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) or Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Applicants for these positions may need to be “U.S. persons.” “U.S. persons” are generally defined as U.S. citizens, noncitizen nationals, lawful permanent residents (or, green card holders), individuals granted asylum, and individuals admitted as refugees.

MKS Inc. and its affiliates and subsidiaries (“MKS”) is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer: diverse candidates are encouraged to apply. We win as a team and are committed to recruiting and hiring qualified applicants regardless of race, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), religion, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability or handicap, marital status, membership in the uniformed services, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other category protected by applicable law. Hiring decisions are based on merit, qualifications and business needs. We conduct background checks and drug screens, in accordance with applicable law and company policies. MKS is generally only hiring candidates who reside in states where we are registered to do business.

MKS is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process due to a disability, please contact us at: [email protected].

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