[Hiring] Senior Vice President, Global Operations @Galvion LTD

Role Description

The Senior Vice President, Global Operations is the senior executive responsible for leading all operational functions across the Company's global operations, including its Canadian, U.S., UK, and Polish sites. Reporting directly to the Founder & CEO, the SVP, Global Operations provides strategic and operational leadership for Manufacturing, Quality Assurance, Global Supply Chain, Production Planning, and serves as a key member of the executive leadership team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or a related field.
• MBA or other relevant graduate degree is considered a strong asset.
• Minimum of 18 years of progressive manufacturing and operations leadership experience, including at least 8 years in a senior executive role.
• Experience within defence, aerospace, precision manufacturing, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated success leading multi-site, multi-country manufacturing operations and cross-functional teams.
• Strong financial acumen, including budgeting, capital planning, and operational cost management.
• Experience supporting organizational growth, change management, and business transformation.
• Executive leadership within growth-oriented, global manufacturing organizations.
• Strategic and systems thinker.
• Inspirational and collaborative leader.
• Decisive with sound judgment.
• Results-oriented with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills.
• Customer-focused and quality-driven.
• Resilient and adaptable in a dynamic, global manufacturing environment.

Requirements

• Develop and execute a global operations strategy aligned with corporate objectives and the Company's long-term growth plan.
• Establish enterprise-wide operational priorities and performance metrics that drive accountability and continuous improvement across all sites.
• Foster a culture of operational excellence, collaboration, innovation, safety, quality, and employee engagement.
• Lead large-scale organizational change initiatives that improve efficiency, scalability, and competitiveness across the global network.
• Build and lead a high-performing, multi-site leadership team through coaching, mentoring, succession planning, and talent development.
• Provide executive leadership for all manufacturing operations across the Company's global footprint, ensuring consistent standards, practices, and performance at every site.
• Ensure safe, efficient, and cost-effective production while meeting customer delivery commitments.
• Optimize manufacturing capacity, production scheduling, labour utilization, and workflow efficiency across sites, including load balancing and technology transfer between facilities.
• Drive operational improvements that increase productivity, reduce waste, and improve profitability.
• Establish global operating standards, common KPIs, and shared best practices to ensure consistent performance across all sites.
• Ensure a consistent global quality management system and compliance with customer requirements and applicable regulatory standards in every jurisdiction in which the Company operates.
• Monitor quality performance indicators and lead initiatives to improve first-pass yield, reduce defects, and enhance customer satisfaction.
• Ensure corrective and preventive actions are effectively implemented and sustained.
• Lead global procurement, sourcing, inventory management, production planning, logistics, and supplier performance.
• Develop resilient, multi-region supply chain strategies that reduce risk, limit single-source dependency, and improve supplier reliability.
• Optimize inventory levels while ensuring uninterrupted production.
• Strengthen supplier relationships to improve quality, delivery, and cost performance.
• Identify opportunities for strategic sourcing and operational efficiencies.
• Lead global trade, logistics, and customs strategy, optimizing landed cost and delivery performance across borders.
• Provide executive ownership of the Company's global ERP business strategy and operational effectiveness, driving common processes and data standards across sites.
• Ensure ERP business processes effectively support manufacturing, procurement, inventory management, planning, finance, and reporting.
• Partner closely with the Information Technology team to optimize ERP capabilities while maintaining clear ownership of operational business processes.
• Champion digital transformation initiatives that improve operational visibility, data accuracy, workflow automation, and decision-making.
• Develop and manage global operational budgets and capital expenditure plans, with accountability for operating cost and margin performance.
• Establish and monitor key performance indicators for productivity, quality, inventory, cost, safety, delivery, and customer satisfaction.
• Identify opportunities to improve profitability through operational efficiencies and continuous improvement.
• Support strategic planning, global capacity expansion, site strategy, and capital investment decisions, including make-or-buy and footprint assessments.
• Lead operational risk management initiatives to ensure manufacturing continuity and organizational resilience.
• Develop contingency plans to mitigate supply chain disruptions, production interruptions, labour shortages, tariff and trade-policy changes, and geopolitical risks.
• Ensure operational readiness to meet contractual obligations for government and defence customers.
• Support cybersecurity and compliance initiatives by collaborating with Information Technology and Security leadership.
• Ensure compliance with export control, trade, and defence-industry regulations across all jurisdictions (including ITAR, EAR, and Canada's Controlled Goods Program), in partnership with Legal and Compliance Departments.
• Foster collaboration across all departments and regions to support corporate objectives.
• Partner with Engineering to ensure efficient transition of products from design through manufacturing.
• Collaborate with Finance on forecasting, budgeting, cost management, and strategic investments.
• Partner with Human Resources on culture, workforce planning, leadership development, succession planning, and organizational effectiveness.
• Work closely with Business Development and Program Management to ensure operational readiness for new business opportunities and successful program execution.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to the Founder & CEO on operational strategy, growth investments, and enterprise risk.

Benefits

• Challenging work with opportunities for professional growth.
• Chance to contribute to products that make a real-world difference.

Company Description

Galvion is a global defense technology leader specializing in advanced protective solutions and intelligent power systems for military and tactical operations worldwide. We design, develop, and manufacture ballistic helmets and data management solutions for the modern battlefield. Galvion emphasizes innovation, collaboration, and forward-thinking design to meet the evolving needs of the modern world.