Senior Procurement Manager

Crestview Aerospace offers the opportunity to contribute to high-impact aerospace and defense programs that support leading aircraft and weapons systems manufacturers. The company partners with major OEMs, including Boeing Defense, Bell, RTX/Collins Aerospace, Northrop Grumman, and others, to deliver complex design-to-build and build-to-print assemblies for platforms such as the H-47, V-22, F-35, F-15, F-16, F-18, KC-135, E-2, Harpoon, and SLAM-ER. With manufacturing operations in Crestview, Florida, and St. Louis, Missouri, and a team of approximately 350 professionals, Crestview Aerospace provides a collaborative, mission-focused environment where procurement leadership plays a critical role in supplier performance, production continuity, and operational success.

Position Summary

As Senior Procurement Manager, you will have the opportunity to lead a critical function within Crestview Aerospace's supply chain organization, reporting to the Vice President of Supply Chain & Quality. In this role, you will shape sourcing strategy, strengthen supplier partnerships, and ensure the timely, cost-effective flow of materials, supplies, capital equipment, and outside services that support complex aerospace manufacturing operations. You will work closely with cross-functional leaders to drive supplier performance, maintain production continuity, support compliance, and achieve cost, quality, delivery, and inventory objectives in a mission-focused environment.

Essential Job Functions

• Lead procurement strategy, execution, supplier management, cost reduction, compliance, and continuous improvement across Crestview Aerospace.
• Develop and maintain procurement policies, procedures, systems, controls, reports, and KPIs that support operational and business objectives.
• Manage purchasing of production materials, supplies, services, and capital equipment, including requisition review, purchase order execution, and commercial negotiations.
• Create sourcing strategies that reduce supply risk, improve supplier performance, support annual operating plan objectives, and drive cost savings.
• Identify, qualify, develop, and manage suppliers based on capability, quality, delivery, cost, capacity, financial stability, responsiveness, and compliance.
• Partner with Planning, Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Receiving, Accounts Payable, and Finance to align procurement with schedules, forecasts, inventory goals, and production priorities.
• Analyze MRP/ERP demand, forecasts, lead times, reorder levels, supplier constraints, and inventory parameters to ensure timely, economical purchasing.
• Expedite orders and resolve supplier delivery, invoice, quality, documentation, contract, and performance issues to prevent production disruption.
• Lead, coach, develop, and organize procurement personnel to ensure performance, accountability, training, and succession readiness.
• Ensure procurement activities comply with company policies, quality standards, ethical expectations, customer requirements, and applicable laws and regulations; perform related duties as assigned.

Principal Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Communicate effectively through written, verbal, presentation, negotiation, and interpersonal interactions with suppliers, customers, employees, and leadership.
• Demonstrate leadership by organizing work, developing staff, building accountability, and influencing cross-functional teams.
• Apply strong ERP/MRP, purchasing, supplier management, procurement reporting, spreadsheet, Microsoft Office, and online research skills.
• Interpret technical requirements, engineering drawings, specifications, manufacturing documentation, forecasts, supplier performance, cost data, inventory parameters, contracts, and process information.
• Use analytical, problem-solving, and financial skills to assess data, identify root causes, calculate purchasing-related measures, and develop practical solutions.
• Manage competing priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment while maintaining accuracy, urgency, sound judgment, confidentiality, and high ethical standards.
• Apply knowledge of aerospace manufacturing, quality requirements, supplier qualification, and supply chain risk management; travel to supplier locations as needed.

Professional Requirements, Qualifications & Desired Competencies:

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Engineering, Operations Management, or a related field is required.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible procurement, purchasing, materials, supply chain, operations, or manufacturing experience; aerospace or complex manufacturing experience preferred.

Physical Requirements:

Working conditions are generally normal for an office and manufacturing environment. The role may require interaction with production areas, suppliers, and cross-functional teams. The employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, use hands, communicate effectively, and occasionally lift up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities may include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Travel to supplier locations may be required based on business needs.

Crestview Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits, hires, trains, and promotes employees in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, disability, veteran's status, or other legally protected status. Sponsorship is not available for this role. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the US on a permanent and consistent basis without company sponsorship now and in the future. This position requires use of information or access to hardware which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). All applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of ITAR. ITAR defines a U.S. person as a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident (i.e. 'Green Card Holder'), Political Asylee, or Refugee.