Director, Business Unit Supply Chain
MKSA 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 sup…