Supply Chain Specialist III

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Role Overview

The Supply Chain Governance Specialist III serves as the primary governance lead between divisions and corporate supply chain governance to drive strategic alignment, accountability, and action across key supply chain processes. This role owns stakeholder engagement, governance leadership, and executive readiness for monthly governance reviews. The specialist translates supply chain performance insights into diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive actions, leads cross-functional alignment, and ensures divisional risks, priorities, and improvement opportunities are clearly communicated and converted into business decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead KPI governance across key supply chain metrics including Inventory Above/Below Entitlement, Slow-Moving Inventory, End-of-Life Inventory, Delivery, and Quality.
• Drive interpretation of divisional performance and translate findings into clear risks, recommendations, actions, and escalation paths.
• Develop and implement inventory optimization strategies to balance cost efficiency and product availability.
• Identify and mitigate excess or obsolete inventory risks through proactive analysis and collaboration with Procurement, Planning, and Operations.
• Serve as the primary liaison between divisions, corporate governance, analytics, and digital teams to ensure alignment on priorities, actions, and follow-through.
• Lead Workstream, Steering Committee, and governance review discussions, ensuring insights are converted into accountable actions, owners, due dates, and next steps.
• Shape the storyline, decision asks, and escalation points required for leadership visibility and executive readiness.
• Lead or sponsor projects that deploy new tools, capabilities, metrics, and process improvements across the supply chain.
• Ensure dashboard outputs, trackers, and governance materials are used effectively to monitor progress, risks, and improvement initiatives.
• Ensure data or system issues affecting governance quality are surfaced, prioritized, and resolved in partnership with analytics and digital support teams.
• Identify and execute opportunities to improve governance discipline, process efficiency, and visibility across divisions.
• Share best practices, support onboarding activities, and strengthen governance capability across the team.
• Leverage approved AI and automation tools to improve governance efficiency, including supporting data analysis, identifying trends or anomalies, summarizing findings, enhancing documentation, and streamlining recurring governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in business administration, engineering, or related to supply chain.
• 5+ years of experience in supply chain governance, analytics, or planning.
• Strong experience with ERP systems such as SAP and Oracle.
• Basic to intermediate proficiency in SQL and data visualization tools such as Power BI.
• Proven ability to manage cross-functional stakeholders and lead change.
• Strong facilitation, presentation, and executive communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to translate data into business actions, leadership messaging, and governance outcomes.
• Professional certifications (CSCP, CPIM, or Lean Six Sigma) are highly desirable.

• Valid Passport and USA Visa is preferred.
• English at B2 level is required as minimum.

Core Competencies

• Customer Focus – Builds trusted relationships and delivers stakeholder-centered solutions.
• Collaboration & Influence – Aligns teams and drives action across divisions, governance, analytics, and leadership.
• Drives Results – Converts insights into actions and follows through on commitments with accountability and urgency.
• Change Agility – Champions transformation and adapts governance priorities to evolving business needs.
• Decision Quality & Problem Solving – Applies sound judgment to connect data, business context, and action planning.
• Continuous Improvement – Identifies and leads opportunities to improve governance effectiveness and process consistency.
• Communication Excellence – Delivers clear, credible, and executive-ready messages across levels.
• Organizational Savvy – Navigates formal and informal networks to accelerate alignment and resolution.