Director, Operations Strategy - Supply Chain

About the Role

Gap Inc’ Supply Chain Strategy team supports the development of future E2E supply chain capabilities. This role plays a critical part to drive large scale supply chain transformation programs balancing process improvement, advanced analytics, technology and change management. You are a strong problem solver with a passion drive impact and build best in class supply chain capabilities.

What You'll Do

Key Responsibilities

• Support Supply Chain Strategy development across Product Development, Responsive Program Management, Omni-Channel fulfilment & Return Management as well as logistics.
• Bring thought leadership: Stay abreast with the latest industry trends. Partner with brand and functional leaders. Educate, augment and evolve our supply chain roadmap and capabilities.
• Drive Change: Develop and manage large scale and complex implementations
• Drive Impact: Develop financial and operational analytics capabilities to measure impact across all of our brands, business ventures and operational functions. Accompany business leaders in decision making and workforce up-skilling to drive sustainable change post-implementation.

Relevant Experience

• Consulting and strategy experience leading process and capability development.
• Experience in product to market processes for apparel retail specifically merchandising, inventory management or other relevant experience.

Who You Are

Skill Set

• Best-in-class project management experience leading enterprise-wide transformational programs
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams of stakeholders in evaluation of hypotheses, strategic analysis / planning, and operational execution to further Gap Inc. goals and priorities.
• Demonstrated experience developing and refining project scope, structure, and approach, including frameworks, quantitative and qualitative analyses, and capability roadmaps
• Own program governance including stakeholder / leadership engagement, analytics, metrics and reporting.
• Ensure relevant programs/projects are on track, including budget, timeline and scope.
• Anticipate roadblocks and proactively address issues before they impact business results.
• Engage with cross functional teams; and with change management and leading transition.
• Advanced data cleansing, reporting, modeling and optimization skills.
• Understanding/foundations in data engineering.
• Proficient at senior management communication