(USA) Director, Supply Chain Management

Walmart • Shepherdsville, KY

1d • $110,000 - $220,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Improves supply chain execution by directing a flow path channel from supplier to store to best fit sales instock and profit metrics. Collaborates between supply chain stakeholders to ensure sales instock inventory profitability and strategy goals are achieved. Tracks the movement and arrival of goods across the supply chain, presenting recommendations to address conflicting goals. Identifies order exceptions, disruptions, and supply chain constraints that will impact supply chain execution and develops and coordinates a resolution. Communicates operational expectations to suppliers and transporters, addressing performance-related issues with stakeholders. Directs supply chain flow process improvement efforts by overseeing the design, development, and delivery of new ways of working between supply chain stakeholders, prioritizing product flow plan objectives, ensuring flow 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 cost recommendations to reduce process waste, providing opportunities for cost reductions and process efficiencies, and reviewing and analyzing the impact and benefits to internal processes. Oversees relationships with external parties by supervising the main point of contact for external partners, communicating expectations and agreements to external partners, consolidating and communicating relevant findings and information to external stakeholders, leading audit processes to ensure external partners comply with company standards and agreements, utilizing quarterly scorecards to measure and correct performance, and assisting senior leadership with the selection of service providers. Provides overall direction by analyzing business objectives and customer needs, developing, communicating, building support for, and implementing business strategies, plans, and practices, analyzing costs and forecasts and incorporating them into business plans, determining and supporting resource requirements, evaluating operational processes, measuring outcomes to ensure desired results, identifying and capitalizing on improvement opportunities, promoting a customer environment, and demonstrating adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning. Develops and implements strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce by diagnosing capability gaps, recruiting, selecting, and developing talent, supporting mentorship, workforce development, and succession planning, and leveraging the capabilities of new and existing talent. Cultivates an environment where associates respect and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics by integrating these values into all programs and practices, developing consequences for violations or noncompliance, and supporting the Open Door Policy. Develops and leverages internal and external partnerships and networks to maximize the achievement of business goals by sponsoring and leading key community outreach and involvement initiatives, engaging key stakeholders in the development, execution, and evaluation of appropriate business plans and initiatives, and supporting associate efforts in these areas. Respect the individual: Builds high-performing teams, seeks and embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences, creates a workplace where all associates feel seen, supported, and connected through a culture of belonging so associates thrive and perform, drives a positive associate and customer/member experience for all. Respect the individual: Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities, builds the talent pipeline, fosters an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work, empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer and company, and regularly recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments, supports strategies and drives initiatives that attract and retain the best talent. Respect the individual: Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners, works collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives, and communicates and listens attentively with energy and positivity to motivate, influence, and inspire commitment and action. Act with Integrity: Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance, models the Walmart values, and leads by example to foster our culture, supports Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company by taking action to advance opportunity, sustainability, community, and integrity (e.g., creating fair opportunities for associates and suppliers, driving local giving efforts). Act with Integrity: Ensures that teams follow the law, our code of conduct, and company policies, promotes an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns, and models our culture of non-retaliation, listens to concerns raised by associates and takes action, and enables others to do the same, holds self and teams accountable for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values. Act with Integrity: Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble, self-aware. Serve our Customers and members: Delivers expected business results while putting the customer/member first and consistently applying an omnimerchant mindset and acting with an Every Day Low Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers/members. Serve our Customers and members: Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data analytics, customer/member insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and implementing strategies. Strive for Excellence: Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve, demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset, seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions, and fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, learning from mistakes, and intelligent risk-taking, and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks. Strive for Excellence: Drives continuous improvements, supervises the adoption of new technology, and supports digital disruption in line with Walmart's business model.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Logistics, Supply Chain, Business, or related field and 5 years’ experience in logistics, distribution, transportation, or related area OR 7 years’ experience in logistics, distribution, transportation, or related area.
• 3 years’ experience with advanced functionality of Microsoft Office.
• 2 years’ supervisory experience.

Nice To Haves

• Dispatch
• Fleet Management
• Network Analysis
• Retail Logistics Operations
• Masters: Business
• Masters: Logistics
• Masters: Supply Chain
• Project Management - Project Management Professional - Certification
• Six Sigma - Certification

Responsibilities

• Improves supply chain execution by directing a flow path channel from supplier to store to best fit sales instock and profit metrics
• Collaborates between supply chain stakeholders to ensure sales instock inventory profitability and strategy goals are achieved
• Tracks the movement and arrival of goods across the supply chain, presenting recommendations to address conflicting goals
• Identifies order exceptions, disruptions, and supply chain constraints that will impact supply chain execution and develops and coordinates a resolution
• Communicates operational expectations to suppliers and transporters, addressing performance-related issues with stakeholders
• Directs supply chain flow process improvement efforts by overseeing the design, development, and delivery of new ways of working between supply chain stakeholders
• Prioritizes product flow plan objectives, ensuring flow plans are achievable
• Champions innovation to simplify current solutions and methodologies
• Manages the correction of errors, processes, and feedback loops
• Identifies areas of opportunity to improve service levels
• Supports the use of end-to-end costing methodology and lean concepts
• Provides cost recommendations to reduce process waste
• Provides opportunities for cost reductions and process efficiencies
• Reviews and analyzes the impact and benefits to internal processes
• Oversees relationships with external parties by supervising the main point of contact for external partners
• Communicates expectations and agreements to external partners
• Consolidates and communicates relevant findings and information to external stakeholders
• Leads audit processes to ensure external partners comply with company standards and agreements
• Utilizes quarterly scorecards to measure and correct performance
• Assists senior leadership with the selection of service providers
• Provides overall direction by analyzing business objectives and customer needs
• Develops, communicates, builds support for, and implements business strategies, plans, and practices
• Analyzes costs and forecasts and incorporates them into business plans
• Determines and supports resource requirements
• Evaluates operational processes
• Measures outcomes to ensure desired results
• Identifies and capitalizes on improvement opportunities
• Promotes a customer environment
• Demonstrates adaptability and sponsors continuous learning
• Develops and implements strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce
• Diagnoses capability gaps, recruits, selects, and develops talent
• Supports mentorship, workforce development, and succession planning
• Leverages the capabilities of new and existing talent
• Cultivates an environment where associates respect and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics
• Integrates values into all programs and practices
• Develops consequences for violations or noncompliance
• Supports the Open Door Policy
• Develops and leverages internal and external partnerships and networks to maximize the achievement of business goals
• Sponsors and leads key community outreach and involvement initiatives
• Engages key stakeholders in the development, execution, and evaluation of appropriate business plans and initiatives
• Supports associate efforts in these areas
• Builds high-performing teams
• Seeks and embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences
• Creates a workplace where all associates feel seen, supported, and connected through a culture of belonging so associates thrive and perform
• Drives a positive associate and customer/member experience for all
• Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities
• Builds the talent pipeline
• Fosters an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work
• Empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer and company
• Regularly recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments
• Supports strategies and drives initiatives that attract and retain the best talent
• Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners
• Works collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives
• Communicates and listens attentively with energy and positivity to motivate, influence, and inspire commitment and action
• Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance
• Models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture
• Supports Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company by taking action to advance opportunity, sustainability, community, and integrity
• Ensures that teams follow the law, our code of conduct, and company policies
• Promotes an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns
• Models our culture of non-retaliation
• Listens to concerns raised by associates and takes action
• Enables others to do the same
• Holds self and teams accountable for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values
• Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble, self-aware
• Delivers expected business results while putting the customer/member first
• Consistently applies an omnimerchant mindset
• Acts with an Every Day Low Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers/members
• Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data analytics, customer/member insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and implementing strategies
• Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve
• Demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset
• Seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions
• Fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, learning from mistakes, and intelligent risk-taking
• Exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks
• Drives continuous improvements
• Supervises the adoption of new technology
• Supports digital disruption in line with Walmart's business model

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Performance-based bonus awards
• Medical coverage
• Vision coverage
• Dental coverage
• 401(k)
• Stock purchase
• Company-paid life insurance
• PTO (including sick leave)
• Parental leave
• Family care leave
• Bereavement
• Jury duty
• Voting
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• Company discounts
• Military Leave Pay
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
• PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes
• Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director