Manager, Supply Chain Consulting

Interpath; Düsseldorf; Vor Ort; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Interpath is seeking a Manager, Supply Chain Consulting to lead international client projects within our German practice. You will shape supply chain strategies and manage teams across procurement, logistics, and manufacturing to deliver measurable improvements in cost, cash flow and service levels.

Join a fast-growing advisory firm with a strong reputation and a PE-backed business, offering exposure to diverse clients across Europe and beyond.

Qualifikationen

• Strong academic background with Master’s/PhD and extensive supply chain consulting experience.
• Proven track record managing multiple projects and staff on client sites.
• Fluent German and English (C1) required; additional EU languages advantageous.

Aufgaben

• Lead diverse client-facing projects across procurement, logistics, planning, manufacturing, and distribution.
• Shape operating models, network footprints, inventory strategies, and supplier portfolios.
• Reduce supply chain costs, optimize inventory levels, and improve cash conversion.
• Manage large-scale transformation programmes and integrations.
• Engage with procurement, operations, finance, and suppliers to ensure adoption.
• Support risk and resilience planning and implement digital tools such as ERP/IBP.
• Contribute to business development and expand Interpath’s market presence.

Kenntnisse

Supply chain

Project management

Team management

German & English

Ausbildung

Master's/PhD

Jobbeschreibung

Manager, Supply Chain Consulting (m/f/d)

Interpath

Dusseldorf or Munich or Berlin or Vienna

Interpath is an international and fast-growing advisory business with deep expertise in a broad range of specialisms spanning deals, advisory and restructuring.

We deliver tangible results for global businesses, their investors, and stakeholders when complex problems arise, and critical decisions need to be made. Interpath is agile, independent, and conflict-free, and our passion for doing what’s right, every time, sets us apart.

Our diverse teams provide specialist technical knowledge combined with deep sector experience across our service line specialisms. Since our foundation in 2021, Interpath has grown rapidly, and we now have a presence across the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, BVI, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Barbados, and Hong Kong. By 2030 we aim to be one of the world’s leading advisory firms with a truly global footprint.

Interpath entered the German market in January 2025 through its acquisition of the award‑winning consulting firm Kerkhoff. This role creates a rare opportunity to join a highly respected team with a strong reputation and the backing of a fast‑growing, Private Equity–supported business. Our German practice is led by a group of seasoned Managing Directors who specialise in delivering advisory services across Restructuring, Debt Advisory and Value Creation.

At Interpath, our Supply Chain Management team is part of our Value Creation service line and improving client’s results is our passion. Our client teams design sustainable value chains, increasing our clients abilities to manage complex supply chains, optimise production, logistics, product portfolio and life cycle management resulting in the optimisation of costs, liquidity, and investments.

As a Manager in the Supply Chain Management team, you will work with experienced colleagues to deliver multi-stakeholder, international and domestic Supply Chain projects while also raising the profile of Interpath as a premier provider of Value Creation advisory services.

• Responsibilities - The successful candidate will lead colleagues on a diverse range of client facing projects including; Performance issues - Identifying bottlenecks, inefficiencies, cost drivers, and risks across procurement, logistics, planning, manufacturing, and distribution
• Supply chain strategies - Shaping operating models, network footprints, inventory strategies, and supplier portfolios that align with our Client’s commercial goals
• Cost and working capital - Reducing supply chain costs, optimising inventory levels, and improving cash conversion
• Transformation programmes - Leading or contributing to large‑scale change initiatives, from restructuring supply networks to integrating acquisitions
• Stakeholder engagement - Working closely with procurement teams, operations leaders, finance, and external suppliers to ensure recommendations are adopted
• Risk and resilience planning - Helping organisations prepare for disruptions, diversify suppliers, and build more robust operating models
• Improving processes and systems - Streamlining workflows, implementing best‑practice planning methods, and supporting the adoption of digital tools such as ERP, S&OP/IBP platforms, or advanced analytics

A Manager in the Supply Chain Management (SCM) team will also have the opportunity to partake in business development and marketing activities and events. They will also expand their knowledge and experience by working with Managing Directors on additional topics along the value chain for Clients. Additionally, the development of the SCM team will further strengthen Interpath’ footprint within the market.

Requirements

• Strong academic background (can include a Master's/PhD) with extensive experience in in supply chain consulting or project management
• Previous experience of managing multiple projects & staff on client site in addition to assuming cost & implementation responsibility
• Proven consulting tool kit including financial analysis and stakeholder management including presentation preparation and delivery
• Industry experience is advantageous
• Well-developed team management and coaching skills in often urgent situations combined with excellent communication and influencing skills
• Native or business fluent German & English (C1) is essential. Additional European languages including French or Spanish are advantageous
• Open to working on client site both within Germany and across the EU and internationally

Inclusion at Interpath

We exist to help our clients seize transformational opportunities or to navigate their most difficult challenges, and so we need to draw on the brightest minds from the broadest range of backgrounds to bring the most insightful perspectives.

To do that, it’s essential that it is in our DNA to support and celebrate our people as individuals and that we all have the ability, resources and guidance to achieve our long‑term career ambitions.

Learning & Development

Interpath provide a broad range of tailored training programs, on-the-job learning and networking opportunities help our employees develop the skills and experience required to progress on their chosen career paths.

Values

Our four core values are the cornerstones of culture at Interpath and steer everything from everyday decisions to larger strategic initiatives. Our Interpath Values are;

Do the right thing

- Our comfort zone is uncomfortable. We always make the right decision, not simply what is easy or popular.

All hands on deck

- stand shoulder-to-shoulder with colleagues and clients, be that physically or from afar. Our individual expertise may find the answers, but implementation happens though teamwork.

Passion drives success

- The impossible is always possible. We push the boundaries of what is expected because we're never satisfied with the status quo. Our clients expect the right result when they engage with us, and it's only by delivering this that we win.

Embrace different

- cultures to mindsets, we welcome all. We believe that people are equal, but not the same.

At Interpath, our people lie at the heart of our business. That's why we provide employees with a competitive and comprehensive reward package including compelling salaries and a range of core and optional benefits.

Unsolicited Resumes from Third-Party Recruiters

Please note that Interpath do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that Interpath will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.