Head of Supply Chain & Logistics

Digantara is a leading Space Surveillance and Intelligence company focused on ensuring orbital safety and sustainability. With expertise in space-based detection, tracking, identification, and monitoring, Digantara provides comprehensive domain awareness across regimes, allowing end users to have actionable intelligence on a single platform. At the core of its infrastructure lies a sophisticated integration of hardware and software capabilities aligned with the key principles of situational awareness: perception (data collection), comprehension (data processing), and prediction (analytics). This holistic approach empowers Digantara to monitor all Resident Space Objects (RSOs) in orbit, fostering comprehensive domain awareness.

A seasoned Head of Supply Chain & Logistics with end-to-end ownership of procurement, planning, manufacturing, logistics, and supplier ecosystems for precision hardware products across aerospace, defence electronics, satellites, and advanced manufacturing industries.

Why Us?

• Build and scale the core Engineering team of a space-tech company solving real-time surveillance, intelligence, and sustainability challenges on a planetary scale.
• Work directly with function heads to build mission-critical High performance Team.
• High-autonomy, mission-first culture with opportunities for rapid personal and professional growth.

Required Skills

• End-to-end SC ownership in a company making precision hardware — aerospace, defence electronics, satellites, or advanced manufacturing
• 12–15+ years in supply chain / procurement / materials management in hardware-intensive manufacturing
• Managed both procurement/logistics AND internal inventory/stores under one function
• Import/export compliance experience — familiarity with IOR, SCOMET, Wassenaar, DGFT, or equivalent export control regimes
• ERP/MRP implementation or significant configuration experience (SAP, Oracle, or even Odoo at scale)
• Built or significantly scaled a supply chain team (from <5 to 10+)
• Managed vendors across multiple countries — especially for long-lead, specialty components
• Proven track record of cost optimization initiatives with measurable impact on budgets and margins
• Strong negotiation skills — contract structuring, pricing, SLA management across a global supplier base
• Education - B.E./B.Tech (Mech/Aero/Industrial preferred) + MBA or APICS/CPSM certification preferred

Preferred Skills

• Builder mentality — Comfortable creating processes, systems, and teams from near-scratch. Not someone who inherits and optimises a mature function.
• Program orientation — Thinks in terms of program schedules and integration milestones, not just PO cycle times
• Commercial acuity — Drives cost optimization with data, not just negotiation. Owns SC budgeting, forecasting, and cost reporting to leadership with measurable outcomes
• Stakeholder management — Manages complex relationships across international suppliers, freight forwarders, internal engineering/program teams, and finance. Strong analytical and communication skills
• Mentor, not gatekeeper — Will actively assess and grow the existing team, not just layer on top
• Regulatory intuition — Understands when to flag dual-use / export control risk early, without needing Legal to prompt them

Location: Hebbal, Bangalore

WFO 5 days from office.