Senior Director, End To End Supply Chain Transformation

Summary

Join Western Digital as a Senior Director, End to End Supply Chain Transformation, leading the strategic direction and transformation of the entire supply chain. You will be responsible for aligning strategy, systems, processes, and governance across various teams. This highly cross-functional role requires collaboration with sales, business units, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, and finance. You will drive the implementation of new supply chain planning systems and identify global solutions for competitive advantage. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in supply chain transformation, advanced planning systems, and team leadership. This position offers a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• Have at least 10+ years of experience leading supply chain transformation, solving complex business problems, developing key metrics and executing successful projects in advanced supply chain planning, ERP or similar environments
• Experience in advanced supply chain planning system implementation
• Strong experience in implementing and managing advanced planning systems for end-to-end supply chain including demand supply planning, allocation, scenario planning, factory scheduling and inventory management
• Extensive experience in building business cases, measuring ROI, defining future state, creating budget & resource plans for execution and managing program execution
• Strong people management experience having managed large diverse, distributed teams across different geo-locations and has demonstrated ability to grow and develop team members
• Strong fiscal budgeting skills and experience with handling OpEx budgets and program budgets
• Ability to manage and influence stakeholder relationships with executive leaders and peers

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic leadership and business transformation of the end-to-end supply chain strategy & processes including integrated business planning, demand planning, supply planning, procurement, inventory optimization, production scheduling, logistics and fulfillment
• Ensure alignment between strategy, systems architecture, business processes & governance
• Provide strategic alignment across sales, business units, procurement, manufacturing, logistics and finance teams
• Manage all crucial aspects of the supply chain processes
• Drive the development / implementation of business-focused supply chain initiatives throughout the organization including a new advanced supply chain planning system
• Identify and implement global supply chain solutions that create sustainable competitive advantages in cost, cash, quality & service levels
• Partner with cross-functional teams to innovate and transform the business models and improved internal and external customer experiences
• Identify, prioritize, and execute on strategic growth initiatives in Supply Chain, by working cross functionally across BU, sales, manufacturing, procurement and logistics fulfillment
• Act with limited oversight on day-to-day basis, balancing multiple priorities
• Quickly build HDD domain knowledge, credibility and long-term trusting relationships quickly at all levels
• Decompose and solve real world business problems, ideally building/using advanced analytics and emerging technologies
• Solve the real operational problems impacting operating margin, be comfortable with data and ambiguity, and be able to both delve into the details and engage meaningfully on the overall strategy
• Distill complex thoughts and strategies into simple, actionable recommendations and effectively influence senior stakeholders
• Create and implement holistic solutions working with IT and business partners
• Ensure the business is operating as successfully as possible, stepping in to help drive improvements as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in industrial engineering
• Certification from APICS
• PMP certification

Benefits

• Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan
• Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program (restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents)
• Paid vacation time
• Paid sick leave
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Life, accident and disability insurance
• Tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Employee assistance program
• Other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
• Tuition reimbursement
• Transit
• The Applause Program
• Employee stock purchase plan
• The Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan