Senior Director
Job Description
We're looking for a Sr. Director is to lead a team that is focused on creating initiatives for future strategies across the supply chain. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role within the organization with expectations to deliver immediate results. In this role, you'll primarily be responsible for creating a long-term strategy and transformative path for a rapidly growing omnichannel business.
Responsibilities
- Lead, hire, and mentor a team of world-class supply chain strategies and highly analytically leaders while working in an agile, experimental environment
- Build and communicate a clear vision for one of our end-to-end businesses (e.g., perishable, ambient and bulky products)
- Strategic road map to include advanced analytic and models to support mid and long-term decisions of capital and technology
- Overall strategic omnichannel network design optimizing for assortment, channel, speed, cost, capacity, capability, and inventory
- Connect and design the overall Ecosystem
- Aid peer groups to enable cross-functional targets and metrics
- Help envision, design, and implement supporting systems
Expectations
- Excel in communicating with individuals and groups at all levels of an organization
- Bring a high degree of originality and creativity when developing solutions to improve existing business processes within the supply chain, utilizing methods such as statistical analysis, regression modeling, and optimization
- Are adept at dealing with ambiguity and making independent decisions about what data and approach is best for the task at hand Potential projects include:
- Create models to analyze the Supply Chain network needed to support future sales growth with scenario modeling capabilities to understand the sensitivity to multiple variables; opening, closing, or re-purposing distribution centers; conduct scenario analysis to evaluate multiple networks designs and impact to customer experience and cost to serve
- Develop optimization logic and a tool to determine truckload lane strategy for outbound transportation, balancing cost and SLA requirements
Qualifications
- Masters: Business, Masters: Logistics, Masters: Supply Chain
- Extensive experience in developing supply chain strategies for medium to large size omnichannel/eCommerce retailers
- Extensive experience or knowledge of supply chain domains and related information systems - distribution/transportation, sourcing, planning, manufacturing, and inventory management
- Innovative and disruptive thinking
- Deep analytic and data science experience to lead the development of simulation and optimization models * Superior communication, presentation and influencing skills
- Successful completion of one or more assessments in Python, Spark, Scala, or R
- 6 - 8 years of Supervisory experience
- 7 - 10 years of Data science, machine learning, optimization models