Senior Manager, Supply Chain Systems
About The Position
The Senior Manager, Supply Chain Systems will lead the strategic planning, design, and implementation of global supply chain systems initiatives across Fortune Brands’ portfolio of businesses. This role will be instrumental in driving end-to-end supply chain digital transformation—modernizing core systems, optimizing processes, and enhancing visibility, integration, and analytics across global operations. This leader will partner closely with IT, operations, procurement, logistics, and finance to ensure transformation initiatives deliver measurable business value and align with enterprise strategy. This position is eligible for a hybrid schedule based out of Deerfield, IL. Effective fall 2025, Fortune Brands will transition to a new world-class campus in Deerfield, bringing together associates from across our U.S. offices, brands, and functions. The campus will offer vibrant workspaces for collaboration, along with amenities for dining, onsite daycare, fitness and recreation.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field (Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Information Systems, Business Analytics, or related field).
- 10+ years of progressive experience in global supply chain management, operations, or systems transformation.
- Ability to translate technical capabilities into business outcomes.
- Familiarity working in Agile formation supporting various pods across a global supply chain.
- Proven track record of successful large-scale ERP or supply chain system implementations (SAP S/4HANA, Oracle, Kinaxis, Blue Yonder, etc.).
- Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes, from procurement to distribution.
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking capabilities.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across global, matrixed organizations.
- Passion for leveraging technology to drive efficiency, sustainability, and agility in supply chain operations.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in global manufacturing or consumer products environment preferred.
Responsibilities
- Transformation Strategy & Leadership: Define and execute the multi-year roadmap for global supply chain systems transformation, aligned with enterprise digital strategy.
- Serve as the strategic liaison between strategic supply chain domain owners and technology teams to ensure alignment of systems with operational goals.
- Lead global, cross-functional teams in deploying, testing, and monitoring various supply chain enhancement systems.
- Establish transformation governance frameworks to ensure disciplined program execution, stakeholder alignment, and benefits realization.
- Systems & Process Optimization: Oversee the evaluation, selection, and implementation of supply chain technologies and platforms.
- Lead process redesign initiatives focused on standardization, automation, and simplification across sourcing, manufacturing, distribution, transportation, planning, and finance.
- Partner with data and analytics teams to enhance end-to-end supply chain data enablement, visibility, governance, and automation.
- Drive and maintain dashboards, using Smartsheet, sourcing data from various ERPs and supporting business dashboard development by BI analytics team.
- Design internal workflows for data management, quick turnaround projects, and maintain agile tool kit sources like jira, confluence, miro etc.
- High level and focus on process orientation, setting and managing internal data integrity and control standards.
- Change Management & Stakeholder Engagement: Support global change management strategies to ensure adoption of new systems and processes.
- Engage senior leaders across business units to drive transformation alignment and sponsorship.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to functional leaders, providing insights on industry best practices and emerging technologies.
- Effectively work in a project based environment, utilizing agile and waterfall methodologies for small to large development projects, and meeting and managing timelines with stakeholders.
- Team Leadership & Development: Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing transformation team with expertise in data governance, data enablement, process excellence, and digital supply chain solutions.
- Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement within the global supply chain organization.
Benefits
- In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based sales incentive plan.
- At Fortune Brands, we support the overall health and wellness of our associates by offering comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company contribution, product discounts, flexible time off benefits, adoption benefits, and more.
- We offer numerous ERGs (Employee Resource Groups) to foster a sense of belonging for all associates.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
