Manager, Supply Chain Strategic Initiatives

The Home Depot•Atlanta, GA

7d•Onsite

About The Position

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger. Supply Chain is a key enabler of The Home Depot’s enterprise strategy, enabling the company’s ability to grow and gain market share in any macroeconomic environment. The Supply Chain Strategic Initiatives team supports the development, execution and communication of The Home Depot’s Supply Chain strategy. The Manager, Supply Chain Strategic Initiatives serves as a strategic and trusted extension of the Director and VP, providing Supply Chain leadership support across strategy and visibility, communication and execution, and project management. The role enables a high performing, aligned and synchronized organization by ensuring the right priorities, information and decisions are elevated at the right time to drive results. Candidate should be comfortable leading conversations with and drafting presentations for executive leaders within Supply Chain.

Requirements

Must be eighteen years of age or older.
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
5 years of work experience.
Excellent project management skills.
Demonstrated ability to perform financial analysis.
Ability to ascertain and solve problems.
Strong computer skills.
Strong communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Previous work experience in top-tier retail/ecommerce, corporate strategy, or professional services (e.g., strategy consulting, investment banking, private equity) supporting retail/ecommerce or consumer-facing business units
Solid understanding of retail and financial acumen
Strong communication & presentation skills with the ability to synthesize complex data into clear, actionable insights for stakeholders and leadership
Proven ability to collaborate effectively in highly cross-functional environments
Comfort framing and navigating ambiguous business challenges
Strong interpersonal skills with high degree of professionalism and confidentiality
High degree of personal drive, initiative, and ownership

Responsibilities

Develops an effective plan for controlling project scope, schedule and cost, and monitors project execution to ensure that the plan is being followed.
Creates and effectively coordinates documentation to explain changes or potential changes to the baseline and ensures the approved changes are implemented.
Maintains project logs of all submitted changes and their status.
Develops an effective plan for communicating project information to the project team and to the project stakeholders.
Develops written status reports and scorecards and creates/presents project review documents to senior leadership.
Collects and documents project issues and manages their timely resolution.
Leads the definition of project risks and the required mitigation approaches.
Monitors project activities for the occurrence of risks and takes timely action to escalate or mitigate the risk.
Advises project team members and stakeholders of actions required or completed.
At the completion of a project or project phase, captures key lessons learned and communicates to peer Project Managers.
Effectively applies lessons learned in subsequent projects.
Shares responsibility with the project leadership for providing a good working environment.
Ensures teams are staffed, duties and responsibilities are understood by everyone and that an inclusive environment is maintained.