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Genuine Parts Company (GPC)

Manager, Engineering – Supply Chain Order Mangement

Genuine Parts Company (GPC), Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30383


Company Background:

Genuine Parts Company (“GPC” or the “Company”), founded in 1928 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, is a leading distributor of automotive and industrial replacement parts and value-added services. The Company operates a global portfolio of businesses with more than 10,000 locations across the world. GPC has approximately 50,000 global employees.

Position Purpose:

Seeking world-class talent to join the world’s leading distributor of automotive and industrial replacement parts and value-added services. This is an engineering leadership role with responsibility for modernization in the Order Management space and enabling the transformation to Cloud, along with partnering with the Common Services teams.

We will be looking for this candidate to have close collaboration and alignment with business teams, application development teams and security. Exceptional abilities in building and maintaining strong working relationships and organizational savvy will be required. High-level communication and presentation skills are required. Ability to attract, retain, and develop engineering talent will be critical.

Responsibilities:

Partnering with the cross-functional GPC team, implement the strategy and roadmap for modernizing the Order Management domain and associated platforms.

Implement the technology platforms architecture and execute on roadmap to support build out the new Order Management related capabilities needed for the global order management strategy.

Overall engineering accountability for the Order Management platforms.

Responsible for delivery and support of the platform.

Responsible for simplifying the complexity of current Order Management processes and improving the user experience, and reducing the technical debt and total cost of ownership.

Partner with peer leaders to accelerate and embed agile methodologies across the organization to enhance cross-functional collaboration.

Recruit, manage, and motivate a team of engineers to develop best-in-class solutions.

Other duties as assigned.

Location:

GPC has two work locations to choose from, Duluth or Atlanta office.

We offer a Flexible Work Policy that permits eligible employees to work a hybrid remote schedule.

Desired Qualifications & Experiences:

Degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent experience.

8 (10+ preferred) years’ experience in software engineering delivery (including 3+ years in leadership role).

Consistent track record of leadership, teamwork, and delivering high impact results.

Experience managing 7+ FTE team of internal and extended delivery resources.

Ability to effectively share technical information and communicate technical issues and solutions to all levels of business.

Ability to attract, motivate and retain world-class IT talent.

Able to juggle multiple projects, prioritize time, and communicate timelines to team members.

Must have broad and deep technical understanding of the technologies in this field, including but not limited to:

7+ years of developing/implementing/customizing Distributed Order Management (DOM), Order Management System (OMS) (preferably IBM Sterling) and Inventory Visibility.

Hands-on design and customizing experience with DOM and OMS, such as IBM Sterling OMS.

Experience developing extensions of DOM and OMS systems, preferably Sterling OMS. Expertise in Java/J2EE, XML, XSLT, Oracle and Middleware technologies.

Ability to work independently with minimal direction, be a self-starter with strong initiative, and manage workload to deliver high quality results in onsite-offshore model.

Strong communication skills.

Experience with public cloud such as GCP, AWS, or Azure (Preferably GCP).

GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.

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