Principal Trade Transformation Strategist - Global

Deckers Brands; Hong Kong; Vor Ort; HKD 1.800.000 - 2.400.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Deckers Brands in Hong Kong seeks a Principal, Trade Transformation Strategist – Global to design and deliver transformative capabilities that optimize global trade and supply chain operations, reducing manual effort and increasing visibility.

You will lead AI-enabled solutions, build business cases, and drive adoption across regions, partnering with CoE teams to sustain measurable improvements at scale.

Qualifikationen

• Experience leading transformation or enterprise-scale programs.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management in global settings.
• Ability to translate business needs into actionable solutions.

Aufgaben

• Design and deliver global transformation capabilities across trade and supply chain.
• Lead automation, AI enablement, and process optimization initiatives.
• Build business cases and secure executive alignment.
• Manage end-to-end transformation projects across regions.
• Develop dashboards and metrics to enable data-driven decisions.

Kenntnisse

Leadership

Change management

Strategic thinking

Communication skills

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree in business, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, or Industrial Engineering

MBA or advanced degree preferred

Tools

Power BI

Jobbeschreibung

As Principal, Trade Transformation Strategist – Global, you will lead the design and delivery of transformative global capabilities that optimize trade and supply chain operations to a competitive advantage. This role is responsible for identifying and executing high-impact transformation opportunities across processes, systems, and data—reducing manual effort, improving visibility, and enabling standardized global operations.

You will define future-state processes with digital solutions and enable AI capabilities that eliminate manual work & maximize value within global supply chain workflows. Partnering with Global CoE teams, regional stakeholders, and technology teams, you will translate business needs into actionable solutions, build business cases, and drive delivery from concept through implementation and sustained adoption.

As an individual contributor, you will own end-to-end transformation of assigned capabilities—spanning process design, data structure, and change management—while ensuring measurable business outcomes. Success in this role requires strong execution rigor, the ability to operate across a complex global environment, stepping in directly when needed to drive results, and a track record of delivering operational improvements at scale.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities:

Enable global E2E capabilities to support trade with forward looking technologies (30%)

Design and document standardized processes, tools, and ways of working that improve consistency, compliance, transparency, and scalability across factories, regions, and global teams.

Support trade transformation initiatives including labeling, traceability, RFID, classification, compliance processes, reporting, and factory connectivity as assigned.

Monitor implementation performance, adoption, risks, and issue resolution to ensure solutions are executed efficiently and sustained after launch.

Drive automation, digitization, AI enablement, and process optimization (20%)

Assess manual, fragmented, or inefficient processes and develop future-state solutions that simplify work, increase visibility, and enable scalable global capabilities.

Define and advance digital solutions, automation opportunities, AI and machine learning use cases, and data-enabled capabilities that maximize value across the supply chain.

Establish measurable outcomes, adoption plans, and governance routines to ensure new capabilities are embedded into day-to-day operations and deliver expected benefits.

Build business cases and secure stakeholder alignment (10%)

Translate operational opportunities into clear problem statements, solution options, financial impacts, resource needs, risks, and implementation recommendations.

Develop executive-ready presentations and business cases to gain cross-functional alignment and secure approval from regional and global leadership teams.

Influence stakeholders in a matrix environment by connecting strategic priorities, operational realities, and measurable business value.

Lead global supply chain transformation projects and programs (20%)

Identify, prioritize, and lead complex global transformation opportunities that improve supply chain performance, reduce cost, increase speed, and strengthen operational consistency across regions.

Own assigned functionality and projects from opportunity identification through business case development, approval, implementation, stabilization, and hyper care.

Partner with Global CoE teams and regional stakeholders to align priorities, define success measures, remove barriers, and deliver sustainable process improvements.

Deliver project execution, reporting, and continuous improvement (20%)

Manage multiple transformation projects simultaneously, balancing priorities, timelines, dependencies, stakeholders, and deliverables with strong project discipline.

Develop dashboards, reporting, metrics, and progress updates that provide visibility to leadership and enable data-driven decisions.

Benchmark best practices, identify gaps, challenge the status quo, and step in directly when needed to resolve issues, drive adoption, and deliver measurable results.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, or Industrial Engineering
• MBA or advanced degree preferred.

Work Experience:

• 10+ years of experience leading continuous improvement, transformation, or enterprise-scale programs within a complex global organization, with clear accountability for delivering measurable business outcomes.
• Experience creating global, cross-functional project business cases and selling to senior leadership.
• Proven experience operating in a senior management role within a regionally-structured, global business.
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale change management initiatives in complex environments.
• Strong experience influencing and delivering results across diverse stakeholders, balancing competing priorities and navigating ambiguity in a global matrix organization.
• Experience in Sourcing, Logistics, Planning, AI, master data and Power BI.
• Strong people leadership
• Ability to develop a strategy, anticipate changes, develop contingency plans, and drive execution in a very fast pace and complex environment.
• A natural leader who takes responsibility for driving and delivering results. Knock down walls to deliver results
• Able to influence and lead in a matrix environment
• Drive Transformational change, and continuous improvement
• Strategic yet “hands-on” management style
• Flexible and adaptable to change
• Consumer Focus; Commercially aware
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively address all levels of the organization
• Excellent team building skills
• Project management and organizational skills
• Unwilling to accept the status quo and challenges people and process improvement, willing to roll up sleeves and get it done