(USA) Director, Supply Chain Management- Sam’s Transportation Strategy, Engineering, and Optimization
Posted on: 12 Apr 2021
Bentonville, AR
Job Description
Position Summary...
What you'll do...
This position leads the Sams Club Transportation Strategy, Engineering, and Optimization team; focusing on improving design, operational flow, and processes across the Sams supply chain. With approximately $1.4 Billion in transportation costs across all modes, this individual will use data-driven analysis, strategic thinking, initiative ideation & prioritization, and project management skills to identify problems, develop solutions, and effectively communicate recommended courses of action. Equally as important, this position will identify new transportation-related capabilities and technologies that can be leveraged to deliver incremental value for Members, Clubs, and facilities. This individual must be a detail-oriented self-starter with the ability to lead multiple projects and a team of highly-talented and analytical Sr. Managers, Managers, and Co-Ops/Interns.
Key duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to: transportation sourcing strategy, transportation mode optimization, cost reduction projects, capacity planning, route optimization, velocity improvement, service level improvement, and KPI/metric development and deployment. Must possess excellent communication skills to effectively interact with multiple levels and functions within the broader Sams and Walmart organizations, as well as field and home office locations. Periodic travel in support of project implementation may be required.
Position Description:
Work cross functionally to identify and drive operational and process improvement projects across Sams Club supply chain organization
Develop end-to-end supply chain solutions that, where applicable, leverage the broader Walmart volume, systems, and partnerships, while providing Sams Club with consistently higher levels of service and maximizing productivity
Utilize quantitative and modeling skills to analyze large amounts of data and draw conclusions, develop and communicate project plan, drive project management, resource quantification, and implementation planning. Exercise vertical and horizontal communication to update progress on deliverables
Utilize mathematical and statistical methods/formulas, financial analysis (e.g., IRR, ROI, NPV, etc.), and sensitivity analyses to develop and present cost-benefits analysis and go-forward recommendations
Provide insightful, solution-oriented, oral and written recommendations to executive management and appropriate business partners
Develop key performance indicators (KPIs), metrics, and periodic reporting to help drive execution, process uniformity, and improvement throughout the supply chain
Minimum Qualifications:
4 years of supervisory experience with cross functional teams.
Bachelors Degree in technical/analytical subject, Supply Chain/Logistics or related field and 4 years experience in supply chain management or related field OR 4 years experience in supply chain management or related field.
Hands on experience with Tableau, SQL and Excel and/or other data analytics tools.
Additional Preferred Qualifications:
Thorough understandings of transportation methods/modes, transportation optimization, distribution operations, supply/demand planning, and/or omnichannel fulfillment
Ability to lead cross-functional teams in a project-oriented environment, with the proven ability to state case for change and work to drive improvement
Masters degree in technical/analytical subject, Supply Chain/Logistics, and/or business is a plus
LEAN/Six Sigma experience (Green belt or higher) is a plus
Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelors degree in Logistics, Supply Chain, Business, or related field and 5 years experience in logistics, distribution, transportation, or related
area OR 7 years experience in logistics, distribution, transportation, or related area.
3 years experience with advanced functionality of Microsoft Office.
2 years supervisory experience.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Dispatch, Fleet Management, Network Analysis, Retail Logistics Operations
Masters: Business, Masters: Logistics, Masters: Supply Chain
Project Management - Project Management Professional - Certification, Six Sigma - Certification
Primary Location...
2101 SE SIMPLE SAVINGS DR, BENTONVILLE, AR 72712-4304, United States of America
Walmart Inc.
Bentonville, AR
Walmart Inc. is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores. Headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, the company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962 and incorporated on October 31, 1969. It also owns and operates Sam's Club retail warehouses. As of April 30, 2019, Walmart has 11,368 stores and clubs in 27 countries, operating under 55 different names. The company operates under the name Walmart in the United States and Canada, as Walmart de México y Centroamérica in Mexico and Central America, as Asda in the United Kingdom, as the Seiyu Group in Japan, and as Best Price in India. It has wholly owned operations in Argentina, Chile, Canada, and South Africa. Since August 2018, Walmart only holds a minority stake in Walmart Brasil, with 20% of the company's shares, and private equity firm Advent International holding 80% ownership of the company.
Walmart is the world's largest company by revenue—over US$500 billion, according to Fortune Global 500 list in 2018—as well as the largest private employer in the world with 2.2 million employees. It is a publicly traded family-owned business, as the company is controlled by the Walton family. Sam Walton's heirs own over 50 percent of Walmart through their holding company, Walton Enterprises, and through their individual holdings. Walmart was the largest U.S. grocery retailer in 2019, and 65 percent of Walmart's US$510.329 billion sales came from U.S. operations.
The company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1972. By 1988, Walmart was the most profitable retailer in the U.S., and by October 1989, it had become the largest in terms of revenue. Originally geographically limited to the South and lower Midwest, by the early 1990s, the company had stores from coast to coast: Sam's Club opened in New Jersey in November 1989 and the first California outlet opened in Lancaster in July 1990. A Walmart in York, Pennsylvania opened in October 1990: the first main store in the Northeast.
Walmart's investments outside North America have seen mixed results: its operations and subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, South America, and China are highly successful, whereas its ventures in Germany and South Korea failed.
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