Job Description :
The Supply Chain team is looking for a talented Senior Network Planning Manager who will create solutions to optimize multi-year network topology design, along with Supply Chain planning processes for new country expansion. Our scope includes emerging countries such as AE, SA, EG, Turkey and South Africa.
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 solve the storage and processing capacity, delivery experience (DEX), and achieve the best customer experience in the most cost efficient way.
This role requires working with cross-functional business teams across the company to jointly define requirements, develop Fulfillment Center and transportation network topology and capacity solutions, and manage the timelines for all current and future field operations teams to support project launches. 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.
This position requires significant expertise and high judgment to distill diverse inputs from large customer segments and stakeholders to set a vision and design the right long-term solution. Ability to understand complex data, diving deep through various information sources, and working closely with worldwide engineers, technology partners and local/regional operations teams to rapidly iterate and deliver solutions. Successful candidates must thrive in fast-paced environments which encourage collaborative and creative problem solving to handle significantly complex problems/efforts, decisions, and escalations.
Key job responsibilities
Lead Cross functional Supply Chain planning projects focused on the delivery of solution that meet cost optimization and delivery experience.
Define the best network capacity solution for emerging countries by leveraging optimization tool sets to find answers for critical strategic questions.
Actively work to remove bottlenecks and create scalable mechanisms.
Use Supply Chain knowledge to influence future tools and feature enhancements.
Communicate and drive long term initiatives.
Contribute to the mid to long-term capacity planning process and standardization for new and emerging countries.
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.
Basic Qualifications :
- 5+ years of program or project management experience
- 5+ years of supply chain experience
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
- Bachelor's degree
Preferred Qualifications :
- 7+ years of managing stakeholders in cross-functional project experience
- Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field
- Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization
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