Director, Supply Chain Management - Implementation

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

The Director of Supply Chain Management, Implementation for the Next Gen Fulfillment Network is responsible for driving change management, training, and enabling continuous improvement and large-scale projects to deliver value for associates, customers, and the overall network. 

This position is based in Bentonville, AR. Anticipated travel for this role is up to 75%.   

What You’ll Do 

Develops and leverages internal and external partnerships to maximize the achievement of business goals by engaging and leading stakeholders in the development and evaluation of appropriate business plans and initiatives and supporting associate efforts in these areas. 

Provides overall direction based on business objectives and customer needs developing communication plans, building support for, and implementing business strategies plans and practices to determine resource requirements, and evaluating operational processes measuring outcomes to ensure desired results and sponsoring continuous learning. 

Implements and sustains process improvement programs; partnering with cross-functional teams to develop the operational strategy to simplify processes; providing guidance and expertise on company policies, practices, and procedures; ensuring proper controls, tools, and materials are present in order to enhance behavior change; partnering with stakeholders to ensure alignment and support of the processes; monitoring program performance in relation to metrics; identifying post-implementation issues and concerns; and developing and gaining buy-in on changes and resolutions. 

Drives initiatives to adopt processes and technologies for key business functions to achieve business objectives and programs by analyzing data and evaluating key business components to assess current performance baselines; identifying gaps, opportunities, and needed improvements. Evaluates current practices and solutions; ensuring program processes are simple, executable, and sustainable for use with proper rollout plans; aligning with cross-functional teams and communicating changes to stakeholders to get buy-in and drive behavior change. 

Directs supply chain flow process efforts by overseeing the development and delivery of new ways of working among supply chain stakeholders, ensuring plans are achievable; championing innovation to simplify current solutions and methodologies, managing the correction of errors processes and feedback loops, identifying areas of opportunity to improve service levels supporting the use of end-to-end costing methodology and lean concepts, providing recommendations to reduce process waste, and reviewing the impact to internal processes. 

Drives projects nationwide