Supply Chain Product Management Director

Company Overview:

Exostar’s cloud-based platforms create exclusive communities within the Defense Industrial Base, Life Sciences, and other highly regulated industries where members securely collaborate, share information, and operate compliantly. Within these communities we build trust. By analyzing community data, we provide insights and intelligence, enabling organizations to make better, timelier decisions, to mitigate risk, and operate more efficiently.

Job Overview:

The Supply Chain Product Management Director will own Exostar’s Supply Chain Procurement collaboration solution and will be responsible for retaining existing customers and diving a multiyear growth strategy for the business. This role will report into the Chief Product Officer and will be responsible for collaborating with senior leaders across the organization to drive accountability with our technology partner and increase customer satisfaction with existing customers.

 Responsibilities:

Your day if you join us:

Strategic Leadership:

• Develop and execute a comprehensive multi-year product strategy for the Supply Chain portfolio, aligning with Exostar’s overall business objectives.
• Identify market opportunities and define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap to drive growth and market leadership.
• Work with key supply chain vendors to identify and progress key areas of partnership to enhance the concept of ‘Network of Networks’
• Work with internal stakeholders from sales, customer success and professional service teams to deliver a secure PO collaboration solution to our marquee customers. 

Product Development and Innovation:

• Identify feature extensions to the Procure collaboration product that will enhance our value to our customers.
• Lead the end-to-end product lifecycle from ideation through launch and beyond, ensuring continuous improvement and evolution of the product.
• Foster a culture of innovation by staying ahead of industry trends, emerging technologies, and competitive landscape to drive product differentiation.

Cross-functional Collaboration:

• Collaborate with senior leaders across Sales, Professional services, Customer Success, and other departments to ensure alignment and drive product success.
• Act as the primary liaison between the product management team and other internal stakeholders, facilitating effective communication and collaboration.

Customer Focus:

• Engage with customers, partners, and industry stakeholders to gather insights and feedback, ensuring the product strategy is customer-centric and market-driven.
• Develop strong relationships with key customers to understand their needs and translate those into actionable product requirements.
• Evangelize the Exostar supply chain vision both internally and externally, in supply chain visibility and influence the development of ‘Information/Intelligence’ platform for the A&D Supply chain industry

Financial and Operational Management:

• Oversee the product budget, ensuring effective allocation of resources to achieve strategic goals.
• Monitor product performance metrics and KPIs, making data-driven decisions to optimize product performance and profitability.

Team Leadership and Development:

• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing product team, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Provide vision, direction, prioritization and guidance to the solution delivery team creating a sense of ownership within the extended team
• Set clear performance expectations, provide regular feedback, and support the professional development of team members.

Basic Qualifications/Experience:

You are a great fit for this role if you:

• Master’s degree in supply chain management or closely related fields
• 5 years of product management experience, with a proven track record of leading successful product portfolios in the SaaS or technology industry.
• 10 years of experience in cross functional supply chain management (procurement, planning, finance and quality). Ideally within Aerospace and Defense industry
• Exceptional interpersonal communication and relationship management skills at all levels of an organization, with the ability to foster collaboration and deliver outcomes in a timely manner
• Experience working with C level executives both inside and outside the organization
• Excellent written, verbal communication and teamwork skills. Strong presentation skills, both creating and delivering
• Demonstrated understanding of and first-hand experience in deployment of next-generation supply chain technology to transform supply chain business processes
• Strong leadership skills and the ability to positively influence both customers and team members
• Deep knowledge and understanding of the supply chain convergence as well as core supply chain business processes and industry best practices
• Proven track record in business transformation projects
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

 Preferred Qualifications:

You are exactly who we are looking for if you:

• Proven experience in managing and collaborating with supply chain vendors to optimize performance and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Empathy – Understands the team and stakeholders and their motivations. Works actively to make everyone they interact with successful.
• Pragmatic – Knows when to trade off short and long-term gains and can help guide stakeholders through these decisions while coaching them on the implications.
• Learning Oriented – Strives to learn more about the people he or she is working with, about the business, the business environment, technology and its application and the process being followed.
• Customer focus (internally/externally) – Capacity to anticipate customers’ needs and place customers at the center of own thinking and actions.
• Coaching skills – Knows how to provide constructive feedback, guidance and support.
• Continuous Improvement – Use of a systematic approach for evaluating current processes and identifying options to streamline them.
• Strategic Thinking & Vision – Able to see the bigger picture and have a long-term vision.
• Team Building – Understands the principles to unite a group into an effective team.
• Problem Solving – Troubleshoots quickly but also know the right times to ask for help.

Locations: Remote- NC, GA, TX, NJ, WA, PA, IL, OH, FL, SC

Hybrid: (2days/week) MD, VA, DC

Exostar is an Equal Employment Employer.  The company provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin,

Exostar is an Equal Employment Employer.  The company provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, disability status or genetic information.  Exostar is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all persons in all facets of employment including recruiting, hiring, compensation, promotion, training, benefits, transfers and working conditions.