Sr. Director, Supply Chain Transformation

About the role

Fluence is a global market leader delivering intelligent energy storage and optimization software for renewables and storage. The Senior Director of Supply Chain Transformation is responsible for driving strategic transformation initiatives across the organization by aligning business processes, systems, people, and operating models for the Global Innovation and Development group to support growth and operational excellence across Fluence Energy.

Responsibilities

• Develop the organization's end-to-end value streams, business processes, data structures, systems, and operating model.
• Analyze business operations as an interconnected system, identifying dependencies, bottlenecks, constraints, and opportunities for optimization.
• Assess upstream and downstream impacts of proposed changes and facilitate informed decision-making across functions.
• Evaluate tradeoffs and prioritize initiatives based on business value, organizational capacity, and strategic alignment.
• Lead complex problem-solving efforts by defining issues, assessing current-state performance, identifying future-state requirements, and recommending actionable solutions.
• Develop structured decision frameworks to evaluate alternatives, tradeoffs, risks, and implementation considerations.
• Develop data-driven recommendations and business cases to support executive decision-making.
• Partner across Technology, Supply Chain, Engineering, Manufacturing, Sales, Service, and Finance to build alignment around transformation priorities and business objectives.
• Develop and execute change management and communication strategies that build buy-in and commitment to new processes, systems, and ways of working in support of transformation initiatives.
• Drive execution of transformation initiatives by establishing governance, accountability structures, performance measures, and reporting mechanisms.
• Define, develop, and sequence transformation roadmaps that balance immediate business needs with long-term strategic objectives.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on transformation strategy, organizational effectiveness, operating model design, and business process improvement.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience leading enterprise transformation, operational excellence, business process improvement, strategy, consulting, PMO, or organizational change initiatives.
• Demonstrated success leading complex cross-functional initiatives in manufacturing, industrial, supply chain, engineering, or operations environments.
• Proven ability to operate effectively in complex, ambiguous and hypergrowth environments, creating structure and alignment across diverse stakeholders.
• Experience assessing organizational capabilities, maturity, and readiness to develop transformation roadmaps and implementation strategies that drive business outcomes.
• Systems-thinking mindset with the ability to identify interdependencies, evaluate impacts and navigate complex business environments across people, processes, data, technology and organizational structures.
• Strong IT, financial and business acumen, including experience developing business cases, evaluating investment decisions, assessing ROI, and balancing strategic priorities with financial objectives.
• Proven ability to evaluate alternatives, risks, tradeoffs, and implementation considerations and translate insights into data-driven recommendations and executive-level decision support materials.
• Track record of driving results through influence, collaboration, and stakeholder alignment without direct authority.
• Demonstrated executive presence and advisory skills including facilitating executive discussion, challenging assumptions, building consensus and influencing strategic decisions through data-driven, fact-based recommendations.

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Operations Management, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Information Systems, or related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• Experience working with enterprise technologies and digital transformation initiatives, including platforms such as SAP S/4HANA, Salesforce, Windchill, and related business systems.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to engage executive leadership, functional leaders, and operational teams.

Leadership Profile

The ideal candidate is a strategic, systems-level thinker with deep operational credibility across sourcing, engineering, manufacturing, and quality. They are a structured problem solver and data-driven decision maker who creates clarity in ambiguous situations. They are a trusted advisor who provides objective recommendations, challenges assumptions, and influences executive decision-making.