Director, Supply Chain Technology

7-Eleven, Inc; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Director of Supply Chain IT to lead technology solutions that modernize supply chain and logistics capabilities. This role requires a strong technical leader with extensive experience in enterprise-scale software applications and a passion for mentoring teams. You will be responsible for managing budgets, delivering projects, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure high availability of applications. Join a dynamic and diverse team that values positivity and innovation, and make a significant impact on the future of supply chain technology.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of enterprise scale software application development experience.
• 5+ years of mentoring and management experience required.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and operations of technology solutions for supply chain.
• Manage budget, projects, and resources for the supply chain IT function.

Skills

Enterprise scale software application development

Mentoring and people management

Software Architecture

Database management

Network and IT Security concepts

Project management

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

As a Director, Supply Chain IT, this role will be primarily responsible for identifying, developing, and implementing projects and initiatives to meet needs of Supply Chain/Logistics IT Platforms. We are seeking a technically strong person who is eager to manage a team. Ideally, you will have experience executing a enterprise scale green-field application implementation. You will have mentored and managed a team in the past, and you have passion for technology. This is a dynamic, highly diverse team, and we are passionate about embodying a culture of positivity. Provide management and guidance to the Supply Chain/Logistics Application Team staff, focus on the implementation of new and enhanced applications, high availability and quick resolution of the services delivered. This position has responsibility for all support aspects of 7-Eleven's Supply Chain/Logistics IT Function, including integration with standard 3rd party applications, warehouse management applications, corporate and retail applications. Maintain, close liaison with various business partners, vendors and product teams, and ensure ongoing service and support can be maintained to defined service levels.

This role is 100% onsite based in our Irving, Texas headquarters.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for this portfolio’s budget, projects, and resources planning.
• Lead the development, delivery, and operations of technology solutions to support the modernization of supply chain and logistics capabilities.
• Lead the efforts to stay current on the logistics and supply chain technology stack and platforms.
• Responsible for partnership and collaboration with various cross-functional teams (Supply Chain/Logistics business teams, product management teams, store operations, Merchandising teams, and other IT Teams) to modernize supply chain platform.
• Provides technical oversight across systems and applications, leverage skills across multiple apps.
• Provides a holistic view of the production environment for both technology and business management, working closely as a trusted partner for senior business heads.
• Consults with the primary stakeholders of the application in conjunction with development managers in order to understand the strategic objectives of users.
• Assess project risks and develop contingency plans.
• Identifies and obtains commitments from required resources. Maintains team cohesiveness and holds resources accountable to commitments.
• Requires awareness of audit and compliance related issues.
• Contributes to formulation of strategies for apps support and other functional areas.
• Champion stability initiatives to enable application high availability for Business-As-Usual which includes better monitoring, failover and resiliency.
• Ability to handle incidents, problems and change at a global enterprise level. Calm and analytical when faced with major incidents on critical systems.
• Responsible for delivery of end results and shares responsibility for budget management which directly impacts the Supply chain Area; Accountable for resource planning.
• Exhibits sound and comprehensive communication and diplomacy skills to exchange complex information with inherent confidence with operations and technology partners on a regional or global basis.
• Focus on people development, evaluating subordinates' performance and making decisions on pay increases, hiring, terminations and other personnel actions.
• Mentor and coach leaders & individual contributors reporting to this position and play an active role in raising the talent bar across the technology team.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• 15+ years of hands-on enterprise scale software application development skills.
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience with mentoring and some experience people management.
• Proven experience in implementation and delivery of large enterprise scale supply chain/logistics green-field applications (Order Management, Demand Planning and Forecasting solutions, Procure to Pay & Order To Cash solutions, Control Tower etc).
• Senior stakeholder management experience.
• Expert level understanding of Software Architecture, Database, Network, Operating System, Hardware, and IT Security concepts is required.
• Ability to interface with business areas and effectively translate business needs into technology solutions.
• Ability to keep abreast of new technological and or/procedural developments and demonstrate knowledge and expertise with software tools and an ability to evaluate.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and conflict resolution.
• Strong leadership, planning and project management skills.
• Ability to manage large budgets with good financial discipline.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

If an hourly or salary range is included in this ad it represents the range 7-Eleven in good faith believes is the range of compensation for this role at the time of this posting. The Company may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in this state. This range may be modified in the future. No amount is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable under the terms and conditions of the applicable policies and plans. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, long-term incentive compensation, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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