Business Operations Manager, Supply Chain
ZiplineAbout the role
About Zipline
Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products.
Our customers include the world’s largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we’ve built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.
Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.
We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people’s lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds.
About You and The Role
Does the prospect of a society-altering challenge—bridging deep data-driven insights with high-level strategic execution to accelerate Zipline’s supply chain scaling for a first-of-its-kind autonomous robotic aircraft system—sound like the type of work that gets you out of bed in the morning? Can you seamlessly shift between diving into complex datasets to uncover actionable truths and crafting executive-level narratives that drive cross-functional alignment and bold decisions? Are you energized by the authority and responsibility of owning both analytical rigor and strategic project leadership in a high-visibility, mission-critical role? If this excites you, you’re who we’re looking for!
This is an in-person role based out of our HQ in South San Francisco requiring 5-15% travel to support supplier engagements, strategic initiatives, and key stakeholder meetings in Asia, North America, and other regions as needed.
What You'll Do
In this highly visible and multifaceted role, you will own a blend of advanced analytics and strategic business leadership within the supply chain function. You will serve as a central force for turning raw data into compelling insights while simultaneously driving leadership-level projects that shape Zipline’s supply chain strategy, tools, and operations. You will collaborate closely with Engineering, Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Industrialization, Material Planning, Manufacturing Operations, Finance, and executive leadership to enable rapid, reliable scaling of Zipline’s manufacturing footprint through robust business analytics and strategy.
- Design, build, and maintain interactive visual dashboards, reporting tools, and analytical models using SQL, Python, Tableau, Power BI, and other business intelligence platforms to deliver real-time visibility into key supply chain metrics, trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Perform deep data extraction, transformation, and analysis across ERP, MRP, supplier, inventory, and production systems to generate actionable business insights, forecast accuracy improvements, cost drivers, and performance diagnostics.
- Lead strategic business projects and initiatives at the executive level, including developing high-impact presentations, executive decks, and recommendation frameworks that influence senior decision-making.
- Own and drive key supply chain transformation programs such as Supplier Portal implementation, EDI onboarding and integration, process digitization, and other strategic enhancements to improve supplier collaboration, data flow, and operational efficiency.
- Conduct structured problem-solving and strategic analysis on complex supply chain challenges—identifying root causes, modeling scenarios, evaluating trade-offs, and recommending prioritized actions to optimize cost, service, resilience, and scalability.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into analytical requirements and strategic roadmaps; facilitate alignment across stakeholders and ensure initiatives deliver measurable impact.
- Monitor and synthesize supply chain performance through custom KPIs, variance analysis, and trend tracking; proactively surface insights that inform executive reviews, pla
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