Senior Manager - Digital, Integrated Operations

Tataconsumer; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Tataconsumer is seeking a Senior Manager - Digital, Integrated Operations in Bengaluru to lead supply chain transformation. This role focuses on delivering large-scale digital initiatives and collaborating with cross-functional teams to create a proactive supply chain. Candidates should possess significant experience in supply chain management, digital transformation, and project management. A degree in Supply Chain Management or related field is required. The position offers an opportunity to drive innovation using advanced technologies.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years in supply chain management, with strong functional expertise.
• Experience with planning platforms and strong data orientation.

Responsibilities

• Deliver large-scale digital transformation initiatives across Integrated Operations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on digital initiatives.
• Drive change management and build internal digital capabilities.

Skills

Supply Chain Management

Digital Transformation

Project Management

Data & Analytics

Agile Methodologies

Education

Diploma or degree in Supply Chain Management

Tools

SAP

Power BI

Excel

Kinaxis/SAP IBP/o9/Arkieva/BY

Job description

Senior Manager - Digital, Integrated Operations

About the Job: Senior Manager – Digital, Integrated Operations

Function: Digital

Reporting To: Associate Director – Digital, Integrated Operations

We are looking for a maverick to spearhead the transformation of our supply chain into a futuristic, agile, and data‑driven powerhouse. Passionate about the alchemy of data, technology, and supply chain wizardry – we want you on our team.

As Senior Manager – Business transformation of the integrated operations team, you will be the maestro of modernization, orchestrating a symphony of efficiency and value creation across our PLAN, SOURCE, MAKE, and DELIVER functions.

Geography: Global

Direct reports: 0

Type of Role: Individual Contributor

Primary Stakeholders: Business stakeholders across Integrated Operations/Supply Chain

Role Purpose

Deliver large‑scale digital transformation initiatives across Integrated Operations, enabling standardized planning processes, advanced analytics, and measurable business outcomes through platforms such as IBP, and data & analytics ecosystems.

Key Deliverables

• Infuse the supply chain with a startup's agility and an innovator's mindset, driving change that's not just evolutionary, but revolutionary.
• Champion the identification and implementation of cutting‑edge technologies, from AI to blockchain, ensuring our supply chain is as smart as it is robust.

Customer Service & Collaboration / Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to align digital initiatives with business outcomes, crafting a supply chain that's not just connected, but predictive and proactive.
• Act as the single point of coordination between business teams, IT, system integrators, and SaaS vendors.
• Manage vendors and implementation partners for scope, timelines, quality, and commercials.
• Translate data into stories and strategies, harnessing its power to illuminate opportunities for optimization and innovation.
• Build internal digital capabilities and planning maturity across teams.
• Drive change management, user adoption, training, and capability building.
• Instigate a culture of continuous improvement, where lightning‑fast decisions and actions are the norms, not the exceptions.

Internal Processes

• Partner with Business Process Owners (BPOs) to redesign and standardize end‑to‑end planning processes.
• Ensure digital solutions align with enterprise architecture, data models, and governance standards.
• Lead Data Source Mapping (DSM), master data readiness, data validation, and reconciliation.
• Master the art of project management, juggling multiple initiatives that transform our operations, while keeping an eagle eye on timelines, budgets, and quality.
• Serve as a mentor and guide, fostering a team that's not only tech‑savvy but also supply chain‑sage.

Execution, Governance & Risk Management

• Establish strong program governance, cadence, and reporting (MoMs, RAID logs, KPIs).
• Track progress against milestones, proactively identify risks, and drive mitigation plans.
• Ensure compliance, security, and adherence to enterprise standards and Code of Conduct.

Innovation and Learning

• Be the vanguard of value, unearthing supply‑chain efficiencies that reduce waste, enhance performance, and amplify our competitive edge.
• Champion agile methodologies, steering our supply chain projects with precision and adaptability, ensuring that we deliver value fast, and pivot even faster when needed.

Critical Success Factors

• A decade (8-10 years) spent in supply chain management.
• Strong functional expertise in Demand, Supply, MRP, and IBP.
• Hands‑on experience with planning platforms (Kinaxis / SAP IBP / o9 / Arkieva / BY).
• Strong data & analytics orientation (SAP, Power BI, Excel, Data Lakes).
• A digital savant with an unquenchable thirst for the latest technology and the prowess to apply it.
• Domain expertise spanning the grand spectrum of supply chain domains.
• A diploma or a degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, or a related field.
• A track record of turning chaos into order, complexity into simplicity, and challenges into stepping‑stones.

Desirable Success Factors

• A disruptor at heart who looks at the status quo and says, “We can better.”
• Bias for action with a sense of urgency that is inspiring.
• Charisma to rally troops and navigate corporate corridors.
• Data whisperer who can coax insights from noise to inform decisions and drive growth.
• Passion for problem‑solving.