Interim Chief Supply Chain Officer
Location: Texas, USA
Mandate: 6 months
Start date: As soon as possible
Founded and led by former operating executives, xNorth deploys interim leaders to help organizations address critical transformation and performance challenges.
We are seeking an Interim Chief Supply Chain Officer to lead the end-to-end supply chain of a complex, project-driven organization.
Reporting directly to the CEO, the Interim CSCO will stabilize supply chain performance, strengthen planning and execution, manage critical supplier risks, and establish a roadmap for longer-term improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Assume leadership of planning, procurement, strategic sourcing, inventory, logistics, and supplier management.
- Conduct a rapid supply chain assessment and implement a 30-, 60-, and 90-day action plan.
- Stabilize material availability, supplier performance, delivery reliability, and inventory.
- Align supply chain execution with operational, engineering, construction, and project schedules.
- Identify and resolve critical material, capacity, quality, commercial, and logistics constraints.
- Lead the qualification, onboarding, development, and ramp-up of multiple suppliers.
- Manage critical supplier relationships, escalations, recovery plans, and negotiations.
- Oversee long-lead, engineered, and technically complex equipment and materials.
- Strengthen demand planning, supply planning, capacity planning, and S&OP or IBP.
- Improve visibility across supplier capacity, production, inventory, logistics, and delivery commitments.
- Establish supply chain KPIs, governance, escalation processes, and operating routines.
- Assess the supply chain organization and address critical structure, leadership, and capability gaps.
- Provide the CEO and executive team with regular reporting on performance, risks, and required decisions.
- Develop a sustainable operating model and transformation roadmap.
Candidate Profile
- Previous experience as a Chief Supply Chain Officer, Chief Procurement Officer, EVP, or SVP of Supply Chain.
- Senior supply chain leadership experience in complex, capital-intensive, regulated, or project-driven organizations.
- Relevant industry experience in nuclear, aerospace, defense, large-scale construction, energy, industrial equipment, or advanced manufacturing.
- Demonstrated success leading supply chain stabilization, transformation, or performance-improvement initiatives.
- Experience managing complex North American and global supplier networks.
- Strong expertise in planning, procurement, strategic sourcing, inventory, logistics, supplier development, and S&OP or IBP.
- Strong commercial, negotiation, analytical, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Hands-on, decisive, and execution-oriented leadership style.
- Experience working directly with CEOs, executive teams, and boards.
- Availability to begin immediately.
