Transportation Project & CI Manager - Hybrid

Staples•Framingham, MA

15h•Hybrid

About The Position

Staples is seeking a Transportation Project & CI Manager to lead initiatives with significant impact across its supply chain operation. This strategic role involves complex problem-solving, managing cross-functional teams, and implementing solutions that improve efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and service quality. The role drives projects integral to business strategy and calls for innovative thinking and independent judgment. The position executes demand planning and fulfillment strategy and supply chain best practices for B2B and B2C businesses. It develops processes to improve inventory management and product flow, supports collaborative planning and forecasting across channels, and advances analytical capabilities to enable scalable, data-driven solutions. The role is hybrid depending on location, with a project-dependent schedule, and requires travel of up to 50% as needed.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED.
Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
Experience with business intelligence or decision support software.
Experience with JDA software.
Experience with Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Excel, Outlook, Access, Word, PowerPoint, and Power BI, as well as SQL and VBA.
Track record of implementing innovative supply chain solutions with significant business impact.
Solid understanding of business dynamics and political sensitivities within the supply chain.
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and support organizational transformation toward data-driven operations.
Demonstrated proficiency in supply chain operations.
Experience in Big Data Analytics, including extracting information from a data lake to provide insights or proactively predict opportunities in a digestible format.
Experience leading cross-functional teams and projects.
Exceptional leadership and people management skills.
Effective communication and negotiation abilities.
High level of initiative, creativity, and innovative thinking.
Proven problem-solving and analytical skills.
Ability to travel up to 50% as needed depending on the project.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree.
Master’s degree in supply chain management, business administration, or a related field.
Project management certifications, such as PMP.
Advanced specialization in logistics, procurement, or inventory management.
Successful completion of quantitative post-secondary education focused on retail management, economics, inventory, or supply chain.

Responsibilities

Execute demand planning and fulfillment strategy and supply chain best practices for B2B and B2C businesses.
Identify opportunities and develop and implement processes to improve inventory management and product flow, increase turns and service, and support business strategy.
Partner with business channels to build collaborative planning, forecasting, and fulfillment processes and contribute to business planning.
Frequently manage and review channel inventory KPIs with cross-functional teams, highlighting inventory management opportunities.
Improve demand forecasts and evaluate and evolve predictive models.
Support the transition from fixed order point replenishment to demand-driven fulfillment.
Identify potential inventory opportunities between sales channels, research root causes, collaborate with Merchant teams, and recommend resolutions.
Review promotional lifts and the effects of sales and marketing activities on the supply chain.
Partner with vendors on outstanding purchase orders and KPIs to help ensure merchandise and supply chain flow.
Collaborate to determine load-in and maintain forecasts for added items created by the Category Specialist.
Advance the team's analytical capabilities to improve financial results and enable scalable, predictive solutions.
Lead cross-functional teams and projects.