Supply Chain Manager

The role

The Supply Chain Manager will establish and lead the supply chain function at the Montreal facility. This person will manage procurement, supplier management, demand and materials planning, inventory, warehousing, and logistics while coordinating with the California head office.

What you will do

• Align and implement supply chain strategy, structure, and policies with the California team.
• Evaluate practices to improve service, cost, quality, inventory, and delivery performance.
• Create standard operating procedures for purchasing, planning, inventory, and logistics.
• Implement tools, systems, reporting, and controls for supply chain visibility.
• Manage purchasing, inventory, planning, warehousing, logistics, and supplier activities.
• Develop supplier relationships and conduct evaluations for resilient sourcing.
• Collaborate with engineering and manufacturing to support R&D and prototyping.
• Establish priorities and take ownership of a broad operational mandate.
• Work independently balancing strategic planning with day-to-day execution.
• Collaborate with suppliers, carriers, internal teams, and leadership.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, operations management, business administration, industrial engineering, or a related field.
• At least 7 years of progressive experience in supply chain, procurement, materials management, logistics, operations, or a related area.
• Fluency in English and French, spoken and written.
• Legally authorized to work in Canada.
• Familiarity with ERP systems, PLM/PDM, and configuration management.
• Experience with QMS.
• Experience developing or improving supply chain processes, systems, reporting, and controls.
• Strong knowledge of purchasing, inventory management, planning, warehousing, logistics, and supplier management.
• Strong analytical, organizational, negotiation, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work strategically and hands-on in a growing environment.
• Comfortable working independently, managing ambiguity, and establishing priorities.

Nice to have

• Being a US Person is an asset.
• Experience managing multiple supply chain activities, preferably in a manufacturing, distribution, or industrial environment.
• Ideally also MES.

Before you apply

• Successful candidates must obtain and hold a security clearance at the reliability status level.
• Must pass security assessment for the Canadian Controlled Goods Program (CGP) and ITAR.

About the company

Xona is the navigational intelligence company bringing real-time, centimeter-level certainty to any device, anywhere on Earth. They are developing Pulsar, a PNT satellite infrastructure in Low Earth Orbit.