Sr Manager - SC Excellence And Transformation

Position Overview

We are seeking an entrepreneurial and forward-thinking Senior Manager - Supply Chain to spearhead future-focused supply chain initiatives, ensuring efficiency, agility, and scalability across the global supply chain ecosystem. In this role, you will be responsible for driving strategic transformation initiatives while simultaneously improving productivity across the Technical, Innovation & Supply Chain (TISC) deliverables. Reporting to the Future Supply Chain Excellence & Transformation Director, this role will focus on enhancing Supply Chain Excellence, Accelerating modernization through digital transformation, and ensuring the Supply Chain function is optimized for future business needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Supply Chain Excellence & Future-Focused Transformation
• Strategic Roadmap Development: Define and execute a holistic, multi-year supply chain transformation strategy to support the business goals of scalability, resilience, and customer satisfaction.
• Process Modernization: Leverage advanced tools and methodologies to reengineer processes across TISC deliverables—Procurement, Planning, Manufacturing, Logistics, and Customer Order Fulfillment—to drive end-to-end supply chain productivity.
• Drive Innovation: Implement next-gen supply chain models, such as demand sensing, AI/ML-driven forecasting, autonomous replenishment, and dynamic distribution networks, to improve responsiveness in a fast-changing market environment.
• Agility and Resilience: Build resilient and agile supply chain frameworks to quickly adapt to market dynamics, demand variability, and disruptions, ensuring business continuity.
• Productivity Across Technical, Innovation & Supply Chain (TISC)
• Operational Efficiency: Deliver measurable improvements in productivity, ensuring cost optimization, process standardization, and seamless cross-functional collaboration across the supply chain.
• Streamline Workflows: Identify and eliminate inefficiencies, redundancies, and bottlenecks within the TISC functions, ensuring smooth interaction between Procurement, Planning, Logistics, and Customer Service.
• Performance Benchmarks: Benchmark internal supply chain productivity metrics against industry standards and continuously exceed expectations.
• Technology and Digital Transformation
• Digital Enablement: Drive the adoption of advanced digital tools such as ERP systems, control towers, warehouse automation, TMS (Transportation Management Systems), and predictive analytics tools to enhance supply chain visibility and productivity.
• Data-Driven Decision-Making: Enable teams with actionable insights by implementing real-time tracking systems, advanced analytics platforms (e.g., Tableau, Power BI), and AI-based scenario planning tools.
• Advanced Analytics for TISC: Leverage predictive and prescriptive analytics to improve demand forecasting, optimize resource planning, and reduce inventory holding costs.
• Control Towers: Establish centralized supply chain control towers to provide real-time visibility across the TISC network and streamline decision-making for stakeholders.
• Leadership in Collaboration and Governance
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with key stakeholders across Bottlers and Global Supply Chain Team to ensure alignment on goals and seamless execution of transformation initiatives.
• Vendor and Partner Management: Collaborate with external vendors, suppliers, and technology partners to implement industry-leading practices, unlock supplier productivity, and reduce costs.
• Executive Reporting: Create and present detailed project updates, performance dashboards, and transformation storylines to the Supply Chain Director and other stakeholders.
• Stakeholder Alignment for TISC Delivery: Govern and ensure holistic alignment of all TISC touchpoints to deliver productivity and operational excellence.
• Sustainability and ESG Initiatives
• Sustainable Supply Chain Design: Lead the integration of sustainability into supply chain strategies, ensuring contributions toward ESG goals such as carbon reductions, waste minimization, and ethical sourcing.
• Driving digital adoption and value demonstration for digital initiatives.
• Continuous Improvement in Operational Excellence
• Lean Excellence: Contribution of proactive design refinements and Kaizen feedback processes to overall TISC-level productivity improvements
• Process Reviews: Conduct regular reviews of supply chain systems, processes, and team productivity, identifying further opportunities for automation and simplification.
  
  

• 8+ years of progressive experience in supply chain management, operational excellence, or business transformation roles, with exposure to managing TISC deliverables.
• Proven record in leading supply chain projects that drove significant productivity gains, improved KPIs, and enabled scalability.
• Demonstrated experience in deploying advanced digital tools, modern supply chain technologies, and automation strategies.
• Exceptional ability to deliver high-impact process improvements through Lean, Six Sigma, or equivalent methodologies.
  
  

• Proficient in ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, Blue Yonder, Kinaxis, etc.) and specialized supply chain tools (WMS, TMS, and S&OP platforms).
• Strong analytics and visualization skills using tools like Power BI, Tableau, or similar.
• Expertise in advanced supply chain concepts like predictive demand planning, control tower integration, and digital twin modeling.
  
  

• Strategic thinker with the ability to synthesize complex ideas and translate them into actionable steps.
• Excellent project management and change management skills, with the ability to meet deadlines and manage competing priorities.
  
  

• Delivery of measurable productivity improvements across TISC deliverables (Procurement, Planning, Manufacturing, Logistics, and Customer Service).
• Successful implementation of future-focused transformation initiatives, including advanced technologies and supply chain digitization projects.
• Enhanced stakeholder alignment across TISC functions, ensuring synchronized execution around transformation goals.
• Contribution to supply chain sustainability initiatives, reducing carbon footprint and meeting ESG targets.