Senior Director, End to End Supply Chain Transformation

Senior Director, End to End Supply Chain Transformation

• Full-time
• Job Type (exemption status): Exempt position - Please see related compensation & benefits details below
• Salary Range: 203,150.00-287,800.00
• Business Function: Supply Chain

At Western Digital, our vision is to power global innovation and push the boundaries of technology to make what you thought was once impossible, possible.

At our core, Western Digital is a company of problem solvers. People achieve extraordinary things given the right technology. For decades, we’ve been doing just that.

The Senior Director, End to End Supply Chain Transformation is responsible for 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. This role is responsible to ensure alignment between strategy, systems architecture, business processes & governance. This is a highly cross-functional role providing strategic alignment across sales, business units, procurement, manufacturing, logistics and finance teams as well as managing all crucial aspects of the supply chain processes.

This key member of the leadership team will drive the development / implementation of business-focused supply chain initiatives throughout the organization including a new advanced supply chain planning system, as well as identify and implement global supply chain solutions that create sustainable competitive advantages in cost, cash, quality & service levels.

• Domain Expertise: Strong supply chain planning knowledge & expertise in implementing strategy and transformational Supply Chain projects including implementation of a new end-to-end supply chain planning system.
• Customer Focused: Partner with cross-functional teams to innovate and transform the business models and improved internal and external customer experiences.
• Passion and Urgency: Identify, prioritize, and execute on strategic growth initiatives in Supply Chain.
• Initiative and Ownership: Ability to act with limited oversight on day-to-day basis, balancing multiple priorities.
• Highly Analytical: Experience decomposing and solving real world business problems.
• Natural Problem-solver: Solve the real operational problems impacting operating margin.
• Communications and Influence: Excellent communication skills with the ability to distill complex thoughts and strategies into simple, actionable recommendations.
• Execute Across Disciplines: Capability with analytics, technology, process and op model design.
• Keeping the Lights On: Have your fingertip on the pulse of the business to ensure it is operating as successfully as possible.

This individual will ideally 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.
• Master’s degree in industrial engineering, certification from APICS and PMP is preferred.
• Strong experience in implementing and managing advanced planning systems for end-to-end supply chain.
• 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.
• 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.

Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender, age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, genetic information, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.

Western Digital thrives on the power and potential of diversity. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us.

Western Digital is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process.

Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 01/14/2025, although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline.

Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting.
• You will be eligible to participate in Western Digital’s Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; and other voluntary benefit programs.