Bachelor's degree;
- Supply chain experience;
- Experience in program or project management;
- Experience working cross functionally across several teams;
- Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization;
- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements;
- Experience defining and executing program requirements;
- Experience with a supply chain software/tool such as, but no limited to, Llamasoft, SAP APO, Manugistics;
The Long Term Network planning team is looking for a talented Principal Supply Chain individual contributor who will create solutions to optimize multi-year network topology design, along with Supply Chain planning processes for Brazil network.
As a team player, you have an opportunity to work with some of the best Supply Chain professionals, Tech teams, worldwide Design Engineers, Operations Managers, Finance Partners, Analytics teams, and Business Leaders across the network to design the optimal end to end network topology with an objective to optimize cost, maximize delivery speed to drive the best in class delivery experience (DEX), and customer experience (CX).
This role requires working with cross-functional business teams across the company to jointly define requirements, develop Fulfillment Center and transportation network topology solutions, drive long term planning initiatives and manage the timelines for all current and future field operations teams to support on-time solution delivery.
This position involves regular communication with senior management on status, risks/opportunities, and daily change control management.
Cross-team coordination, project management, and executive interaction skills are essential.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead mid to long-term FC and Trans network planning and process standardization.
- Define the best Network Topology solution by leveraging on optimization tool sets to find answers for critical strategic questions such as how many facilities to build, what kinds they should be, where to put them, how to expect them to operate in terms of inbound/outbound, and how to connect them in our transportation system.
- Actively work to remove bottlenecks.
Create scalable mechanisms and best practices.
Use network planning knowledge to influence future tools and features enhancement.
- Communicate and drive long term initiatives.
Proactively identify gaps and opportunities.
Manage various planning cycles (3YF/OP1/OP2) timelines and deliverables.
- Lead projects for cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new features and tools service that meet cost optimization and delivery experience maximization goals.
- Proactively identify gaps and opportunities in the process/solution by performing continuous benchmarking with developed countries network.
- Drive clear, precise, and regular communication with stakeholders to include ongoing project/program status via monthly and quarterly planning reviews.
- Experience delivering projects within scope, time, budget and quality
- Experience delivering cross functional projects
- Experience owning program strategy and end to end delivery
- Experience with SQL