Director, Supply Chain

Director, Supply Chain - Horton Automatics

Position Overview

The Director of Supply Chain is a strategic, enterprise-level leadership role accountable for building, operating, and continuously improving a world-class supply chain that enables profitable growth, superior customer service, and operational resilience in a complex make-to-order manufacturing environment.

This is not a caretaker role. The Director is expected to set the standard for supply chain excellence, exercise strong business judgment, and make disciplined tradeoffs across cost, service, risk, and cash. Success requires leading transformation, building high-performing teams, and developing scalable capabilities that strengthen Horton's competitive position.

The role has end-to-end responsibility for supply chain performance and financial results, with Purchasing and Materials Management as direct reports.

Location

• Lewisville, TX (Horton HQ)
• Brownsville, TX
• Matamoras, Mexico

Key Outcomes (12–36 Months)

• The successful Director of Supply Chain will:
• Deliver consistent on-time performance in a high-variability, make-to-order environment
• Improve working capital through inventory turns, lead-time reduction, and disciplined planning
• Establish Horton as a preferred customer with key strategic suppliers
• Build a robust supply risk and dual-sourcing posture for critical materials
• Develop a bench of promotable supply chain leaders capable of sustaining results
• Enable growth through scalable sourcing, planning, and supplier collaboration models

Responsibilities

Strategy, Leadership, and Decision Ownership

• Own and execute the end-to-end supply chain strategy aligned with business objectives and financial targets
• Act as the enterprise integrator across demand planning, supply planning, sourcing, manufacturing, and finance
• Exercise final decision authority on sourcing strategies, supplier selection, and inventory policies within approved guardrails
• Surface and resolve tradeoffs between service, cost, risk, and cash—even when decisions are difficult

Supplier Strategy, Risk, and Cost Leadership

• Build strong, multi-level relationships across domestic and international suppliers
• Lead negotiations balancing total cost of ownership, quality, delivery, innovation, and long-term advantage
• Maintain and continuously update supply risk assessments (capacity, geopolitical, labor, single-source exposure)
• Develop sourcing strategies for components, subassemblies, and finished goods that meet margin and quality requirements

Planning, Inventory, and Operational Excellence

• Establish and sustain an operating plan that ensures smooth material flow through production
• Optimize planning parameters, replenishment cycles, and network design to support variability and growth
• Improve inventory turns while minimizing excess and obsolete material
• Lead demand-mix and capacity analysis to synchronize production, inventory, and customer demand
• Define and enforce operating standards, policies, and performance expectations

Transformation and Continuous Improvement

• Serve as the architect of future-state supply chain capabilities, including systems, analytics, and supplier collaboration
• Lead transformation initiatives end-to-end—from business case through adoption and sustained results
• Translate emerging technologies and best practices into practical business advantage

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Partner with Engineering, Finance, Manufacturing, Sales, and Marketing to achieve cost, service, and margin objectives
• Support strategic planning, due diligence, and integration activities tied to growth initiatives
• Collaborate with Sales and Marketing to reduce slow-moving inventory through coordinated actions
• Partner with Finance on working capital discipline, reserves, and accrual accuracy

Talent and Organization Development

• Build, coach, and retain A-player talent across purchasing, materials, and planning
• Set clear performance standards, address underperformance decisively
• Develop succession plans and leadership depth to ensure continuity and scalability
• Be a visible, credible leader in plants and with suppliers

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, Business, Engineering, or related field
• 10+ years of progressive supply chain leadership in a manufacturing environment
• 3+ years leading supply chain planning at the Manager level or higher in a multi-business or international environment
• Proven success leading transformation and delivering measurable business results
• Strong executive communication and influencing skills

Required Competencies

• Enterprise Thinking – Optimizes outcomes for the total business
• Strategic Mindset – Converts future opportunities into executable strategies
• Judgment Under Pressure – Makes sound decisions with incomplete data
• Leadership Courage – Challenges legacy practices and assumptions
• Drives Results – Delivers outcomes despite obstacles
• Financial Acumen – Applies financial insight to decisions
• Talent Magnet – Attracts, develops, and retains top supply chain leaders

Work Environment

• Typical work environment is in an office setting but also requires periods of time in the production environment.
• Exposure to hot and cold environments in the office and factory.

Travel

• Travel required including international travel