Head of Supply Chain Analytics and Systems

FCP Euro • Milford, CT

2d • $180,000 - $200,000

About The Position

FCP Euro is seeking a senior supply chain analytics leader to define, build, and scale our supply chain analytics and planning systems capabilities. This role will own the multi-year vision and execution of analytics, optimization, and decision enablement across sourcing, inventory, demand planning, and logistics.

This is a highly visible leadership role with direct impact on service levels, working capital, and supply chain scalability. You will partner closely with Technology, Finance, and Product leadership to move the organization from manual, cost only decisions to optimization based, data driven supply chain management that balances cost, service, cash, and availability.

FCP Euro is an online automotive parts retailer headquartered in Milford, Connecticut. FCP stands for "Foreign Car Parts," and we specialize in replacement parts for European vehicles. In the past 10 years, FCP Euro has earned a spot on the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies list eight times. Customer service is deeply rooted in our core values. FCP Euro is a customer and technology company, and this unique blended culture has yielded outstanding results worthy of reward and recognition. We are devoted to developing and maintaining user-friendly and accurate automotive catalogs. We have an incredible enthusiasm for what we do, and we are always looking for ways to grow, learn, and improve.

Requirements

• Master’s degree (MBA or MS) in Supply Chain, Analytics, Business, or Information Systems.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in supply chain analytics, planning systems, operations technology, or related leadership roles.
• Proven experience designing and operationalizing optimization models, decision support tools, and exception based management frameworks.
• Strong technical fluency in analytics platforms, data visualization tools (Sigma, Tableau, Power BI), SQL and modern data architectures.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross functional initiatives and influence senior stakeholders through data driven insights.
• Strategic mindset with strong execution discipline and a track record of delivering measurable supply chain impact.
• Experience in e-commerce, retail, or automotive aftermarket environments.

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to ML/AI-enabled forecasting, inventory optimization, or network modeling.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the multi-year roadmap for supply chain analytics, planning systems, and decision maturity aligned with FCP Euro’s growth strategy.
• Serve as a senior thought partner to Supply Chain, Technology, Finance, and Product leaders on analytics strategy, systems architecture, and transformation initiatives.
• Lead the adoption of automation, exception-based management, and predictive analytics across the supply chain.
• Establish and lead a Supply Chain Analytics & Systems Center of Excellence, setting standards for modeling, governance, documentation, and operational adoption.
• Drive change by ensuring analytical capabilities are embedded into daily and weekly supply chain decision-making, not just built, but consistently used.
• Build sourcing logic and modeling that incorporates total landed cost, supplier performance (lead times, fill rates, OTIF), inventory position, in-stock risk, cash flow impact, and space constraints.
• Partner with Supply Chain leadership to define dynamic weighting factors within the model, enabling intentional trade-offs among cost, service, working capital, and availability.
• Enable dual-sourcing allocation scenarios where viable, and proactively flag high-risk SKU/supplier combinations with single-source exposure.
• Replace manual sourcing decisions with a repeatable, documented, and modifiable decision engine that can be operationalized by the Supply Chain team.
• Lead the development of predictive, forward-looking inventory and demand models that move the supply chain from reactive to proactive decision-making.
• Build inventory health models by SKU and category to surface stockout risk, excess, obsolescence, and cross-SKU cannibalization.
• Deliver forward-looking coverage and cash exposure insights through true exception-based reporting.
• Provide clear decision signals for when to adjust coverage, delay or accelerate purchases, or engage the Product team to adjust lifecycle, assortment, or sourcing strategy.
• Prepare the supply chain for a multi-fulfillment center future by defining analytical frameworks for inventory allocation and order routing across three plus nodes.
• Design a tool to model allocation and routing logic decisions quickly, that considers inventory availability, customer location, service promises, cost to serve and vendor constraints, enabling better decision making with the ability to model complex tradeoffs.
• Partner with Technology to evaluate OMS capabilities and define functional requirements to support future fulfillment optimization.
• Assess the current supply chain planning toolset and define a best-in-class future state planning architecture.
• Evaluate whether existing tools should be enhanced, augmented, or replaced, including ML/AI-enabled planning platforms.
• W/technology, define how planning systems integrate across OMS, ERP, MRP, and TMS to support end-to-end procure-to-pay and order-to-cash processes.
• Establish master data governance, system standards, and data quality controls across the supply chain ecosystem.

Benefits

• Company-subsidized Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance, including a zero-premium Medical plan for employees. Company HSA contribution.
• 120 hours of PTO (Paid Time Off), 40 hours of Paid Sick Time, plus Company Holidays
• 401 (k) with Company deposit and match.
• Discounted prices on our catalog of European car parts!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees