Lunar Director, Supply Chain & Logistics

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At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We’re working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!  

This role is part of Blue Origin Operations, which is comprised of Integrated Supply Chain, Test Operations, Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance. This includes Manufacturing and Supply Chain support across all Blue Origin facilities.

Blue Origin's Lunar business unit is developing the Blue Moon Mark 1 and Mark 2 landers to deliver sustained cargo and crewed access to the lunar surface under NASA's Artemis Human Landing System (HLS) program. This is a program of generational importance — the first crewed American lunar landing since Apollo will depend on what this team builds and delivers.

The Director, Supply Chain – Lunar owns procurement strategy and execution for the Lunar business unit and directly leads a team of Buyers and Supply Chain Program Managers. Working within a matrixed enterprise model, this role allocates and directs the services of Commodity Managers, Supplier Quality Engineers, and Logistics specialists to the Lunar program — coordinating their priorities without owning their org lines. You are the single supply chain voice at the Lunar program leadership table, accountable for sourcing decisions, procurement execution, schedule integrity, and supply chain risk posture.

A core mandate of this role is supply chain resilience: identifying and eliminating single- and sole-source dependencies before they become program vulnerabilities, and driving enterprise-level solutions — common suppliers, qualified alternates, and shared contracting vehicles — across the business unit.

You will also lead the program's New Product Introduction (NPI) discipline, pulling sourcing activities upstream into the design cycle to accelerate procurements and avoid the cost and schedule consequences of late supplier engagement.

Critically, this role owns the transition arc from development through production introduction into MRP-driven execution — building the supply base, contracts, and data structures that enable a repeatable, scalable production system.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategy & Program Ownership

• Define and own the Lunar supply chain strategy from component sourcing through delivery to vehicle assembly, aligned to program cost, schedule, and technical baselines.
• Serve as the supply chain lead on the Lunar Program Management team; represent supply chain posture, risks, and commitments in program reviews, executive briefings, and customer (NASA) interactions.
• Partner with Engineering, Manufacturing, Mission Assurance, and Finance to develop make/buy strategies and sourcing roadmaps for MK1 and MK2 development, qualification, and production phases.

Supply Chain Risk & Sourcing Strategy

• Identify and systematically eliminate single- and sole-source dependencies across the Lunar bill of materials; maintain a rolling risk register with mitigation plans and enterprise escalation paths.
• Drive enterprise supply chain solutions through the business unit — qualifying alternate sources, standing up shared supplier agreements, and leveraging common contracts across programs where feasible.
• Lead strategic sourcing decisions for long-lead and high-complexity components; define competitive sourcing strategies that protect cost and schedule baselines.
• Partner with Commodity Management (matrixed) to align commodity strategies with Lunar program priorities; direct their effort allocation to the program's highest-risk areas.

New Product Introduction (NPI) & Procurement Acceleration

• Own the NPI supply chain discipline for Lunar: embed procurement planning into early design phases to identify long-lead requirements, initiate supplier engagement, and issue RFQs before design release — not after.
• Partner with Engineering and Program Management to gate sourcing readiness into design reviews (PDR, CDR), ensuring supplier selection and contract award timelines are built into the IMS.
• Drive procurement cycle time reduction through proactive supplier development, early demand signals, and pre-positioned blanket agreements that remove re-procurement friction as the program scales.
• Maintain procurement status visibility across all Lunar line items; leverage AI-assisted tooling and automated dashboards to provide program leadership with accurate, real-time lead time and award forecasts