Manager, Supply Chain Planning & Operations

Manage a portfolio of network modeling, transportation optimization, simulation, and supply chain strategy projects.

Prioritize initiatives based on business value, resource availability, and organizational objectives.

Provide project oversight, quality assurance, and governance throughout project lifecycles.

Ensure project deliverables are completed on schedule and align with stakeholder expectations.

Present recommendations and business cases to senior leadership and executive stakeholders.

Lead the design, development, maintenance, and enhancement of end-to-end supply chain network models.

Evaluate scenarios including network expansion, consolidation, facility location, inventory positioning, manufacturing footprint changes, transportation strategies, and capacity investments.

Analyze tradeoffs between cost, service levels, inventory, risk, resilience, sustainability, and growth.

Develop transportation optimization and cost-to-serve models.

Support long-range planning, annual operating planning, and capital investment decisions through scenario analysis.

Drive adoption of advanced analytics, optimization, simulation, AI, and emerging technologies.

Partner with business leaders to identify opportunities for analytics-driven decision making.

Translate complex business problems into quantitative analyses and actionable recommendations.

Facilitate workshops to define objectives, assumptions, constraints, and decision criteria.

Communicate findings through executive presentations, dashboards, visualizations, and storytelling.

Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Establish and maintain modeling methodologies, governance processes, and best practices.

Improve data quality, model documentation standards, and model validation procedures.

Develop reusable templates, tools, and frameworks to improve efficiency and consistency.

Support the evolution of Network Modeling as a Service (NMaaS) and consulting capabilities.

Identify opportunities for automation and process improvement.

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5+ years of experience in Supply Chain Analytics & Optimization.

2+ years of team management/leadership experience.

Expertise translating business rules into modeling requirements and scenarios

Expertise in network modeling, optimization, transportation, and operations research.

Experience with supply chain network modeling tools, data analytics and visualization.

Hands-on with network optimization tools (Optilogic, Llamasoft, Coupa, PowerBI, Alteryx, Databricks).

Strong knowledge of supply chain design, inventory, warehousing, and capacity planning.

Exposure to Operations and different supply chain strategies (store, crossdock, import, buy/lease, etc)

Experience coaching and training modelers

Strategic thinking

Influencing without authority

Executive communication

Coaching and talent development

Project and portfolio management

Change leadership

Analytical problem-solving

On-time delivery of modeling projects

Stakeholder satisfaction

Team engagement and capability growth

Business value from recommendations

Cost savings, service improvements, and capacity optimization

Adoption of modeling tools and best practices

Reduced analysis cycle time through automation and standardization

Removed repetitive wording for brevity.

Simplified KPI descriptions while retaining meaning.

Standardized terminology and formatting for a more professional job description.

​Benefit offerings outside the US may vary by country and will be aligned to local market practice. The eligibility and effective date may differ for some benefits and for team members covered under collective bargaining agreements.