(USA) Director, Supply Chain Management

About the role

The Director, Supply Chain Management, leads the strategic direction and execution of supply chain operations to optimize product flow from suppliers to stores, ensuring alignment with sales, inventory, and profitability goals. This role drives continuous improvement initiatives, fosters collaboration among stakeholders, and manages external partnerships to enhance service levels and operational efficiency.

What you'll do

• Direct supply chain execution to optimize product flow from suppliers to stores, ensuring alignment with sales, inventory, and profitability goals.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify and resolve order exceptions, disruptions, and constraints impacting supply chain performance.
• Lead process improvement initiatives to enhance operational efficiency, reduce costs, and simplify workflows using lean methodologies.
• Manage relationships with external partners, overseeing compliance, performance measurement, and issue resolution.
• Develop and implement strategic plans based on business objectives, customer needs, and cost analysis.
• Foster talent development through coaching, mentoring, and succession planning to build a skilled workforce.
• Promote integrity, accountability, and a customer-focused culture across teams and partnerships.

What you'll bring

• Extensive experience in supply chain management with a focus on optimizing product flow and inventory profitability.
• Proven leadership skills in directing cross-functional teams and managing supplier and transporter relationships.
• Strong ability to analyze operational processes, identify constraints, and implement effective resolutions.
• Expertise in developing and executing supply chain strategies aligned with business objectives and cost reduction goals.
• Excellent communication skills to convey expectations and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Commitment to continuous improvement, innovation, and adoption of lean methodologies.
• Ability to develop talent and foster a high-performing, ethical work environment.

Benefits

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s 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

• Dispatch, Fleet Management, Network Analysis, Retail Logistics Operations
• Masters: Business, Masters: Logistics, Masters: Supply Chain
• Project Management Professional - Certification
• Six Sigma - Certification