Director, Supply Chain Network Optimization Design
About The Position
The Director, Supply Chain Network Optimization Design leads the enterprise capability that converts business and Supply Chain strategy into fact-based network choices, governed decisions and measurable value. The role owns the enterprise point of view across how Clorox makes, sources, stores, flows and serves products, with accountability for network strategy, scenario and model governance, capacity and constraint visibility, footprint and flow options, resilience, and capital trade-offs. This leader will initially play a central role in the Clorox–Purell integrated network assessment and the refresh of Project Chess, while building a repeatable internal capability that enables future growth, improves service and total delivered cost, releases cash, strengthens resilience and avoids value leakage. The role operates through influence across Business Units and Supply Chain functions; Business Units and functions retain execution and operating ownership. The position reports to the VP, Supply Chain Network Optimization and partners closely with senior Supply Chain, Business Unit, Finance/VTO, Commercial, Manufacturing, Logistics, Procurement, Planning/IBP, Quality, R&D/Innovation and EDT/Data leaders.
Requirements
- 12+ years of progressive leadership experience in supply chain strategy, network design, operations, manufacturing, logistics, procurement, finance, or enterprise transformation.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations Research, Business, Finance, or a related field required; advanced degree preferred.
- Experience operating in consumer products or other complex, multi-business supply chain environments.
- Proven success leading M&A integrations, network redesign efforts, and synergy capture initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience implementing network optimization recommendations, including capital, sourcing, site, and distribution changes.
- Deep expertise in end-to-end supply chain network strategy, including footprint, capacity, sourcing, make/buy decisions, inventory, transportation, service, resilience, and capital trade-offs.
- Strong knowledge of optimization and modeling techniques, operations research, simulation, cost-to-serve analysis, business case development, and analytics tools.
- Ability to solve ambiguous enterprise challenges by defining decision criteria, developing scenarios, analyzing sensitivities, and communicating clear recommendations.
- Experience governing analytical models, validating assumptions, and translating complex technical outputs into actionable business decisions.
- Strong financial acumen across total delivered cost, productivity, working capital, capital investment, value realization, and risk-adjusted decision making.
- Proven ability to influence and align senior leaders and cross-functional teams through communication, facilitation, negotiation, and change leadership.
- Demonstrated success developing talent, leading teams, managing external partners, operating with imperfect data, and promoting safety, quality, ethics, inclusion, sustainability, and responsible technology use.
Nice To Haves
- advanced degree preferred
Responsibilities
- Own the enterprise-wide network strategy and integrated point of view across make, source, store, flow, and serve activities.
- Lead governance of network structure decisions by defining scenarios, evaluating trade-offs, and recommending actions to senior leadership.
- Direct network optimization efforts, including footprint, capacity, sourcing, make-versus-buy, co-manufacturing, inventory, and distribution strategies.
- Oversee scenario modeling and economic evaluations, ensuring consistent standards, data integrity, assumptions, and financial transparency.
- Ensure optimization outputs are operationally feasible, scalable, and reusable across future strategic decisions.
- Lead the Clorox-Purell integrated network assessment and Project Chess refresh, developing fact-based recommendations and value-creation opportunities.
- Evaluate service, cost, inventory, resilience, capital, and capacity implications to create phased implementation roadmaps with clear ownership and decision gates.
- Establish and maintain enterprise network health capabilities, including network maps, capacity views, constraint analyses, scenario libraries, and decision registers.
- Partner with Analytics & Decision Intelligence to define trusted performance measures and visibility into service, cost, cash, resilience, and growth-readiness metrics.
- Drive alignment across Business Units and functions by facilitating agreement on assumptions, enterprise economics, and documented trade-offs.
- Collaborate with Finance, Strategic Program Management, and EDT/Data teams to validate business value, govern execution dependencies, and sustain modeling foundations.
- Build organizational capability in network strategy, optimization, and decision science through coaching, knowledge transfer, consultant transition plans, and talent development.
Benefits
- comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs
- robust health plans
- a market-leading 401(k) program with a company match
- flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays depending on location)
- inclusive fertility/adoption benefits
- participation in Clorox’s incentive plans
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
