Manager, Supply Chain Systems Engineering

The Guitar Center Company; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 153,367; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Steep Employee Discounts

Professional Growth Opportunities

Supportive Team Environment

Job summary

The Guitar Center Company in Kansas City is seeking a Manager of Supply Chain Engineering. This role involves leading technology and engineering teams to support supply chain platforms and operations effectively. Candidates should be well-versed in supply chain technology and demonstrate strong leadership abilities.

This position offers a base salary range of $120,000 - $153,367 per year and opportunities for professional growth, alongside significant employee discounts on musical products.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant technology, engineering, operations, or supply chain systems experience.
• 3+ years of people leadership experience.
• Practical understanding of AI-assisted engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop supply chain engineering team members.
• Oversee daily schedules, capacity planning, and work prioritization.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews.

Skills

Leadership and development

Supply Chain Technology

Analytical skills

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in relevant fields

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

WMS

EDI

APIs

Job description

The Manager, Supply Chain Engineering is responsible for leading technology and engineering teams that support supply chain platforms, warehouse operations, integrations, automation, and related business capabilities. This role manages daily team execution, performance, scheduling, and talent development while also participating directly in architecture, solution design, modernization planning, platform consolidation, and responsible AI adoption. The Manager has a proven track record as a people leader and technical partner, with demonstrated potential to grow into a Sr Manager role.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop supply chain engineering team members, supervisors, and technical leads.
• Oversee daily schedules, capacity planning, time off requests, on-call coverage, and work prioritization.
• Conduct regular 1 on 1 meetings, performance reviews, goal setting, and development planning using SMART methodology.
• Partner with Directors, VPs, business leaders, and enterprise architecture to align team priorities to business outcomes.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews for supply chain systems, integrations, data flows, automation, and vendor solutions.
• Translate business needs into scalable, secure, supportable technical designs and implementation plans.
• Drive consolidation of overlapping systems, tools, integrations, reports, licenses, and support processes to reduce complexity and cost.
• Champion responsible AI utilization for engineering productivity, documentation, analysis, testing, monitoring, support, and operational insight.
• Ensure AI-enabled solutions follow company standards for security, data privacy, governance, auditability, and human oversight.
• Work with staff to ensure BAU support, incident response, problem management, and project deliverables are completed on time.
• Handle or guide resolution of complex technical issues where staff require leadership, escalation support, or design direction.
• Establish and monitor KPIs for delivery, system reliability, incident trends, capacity, utilization, support quality, and vendor performance.
• Ensure technical documentation, architecture notes, operational runbooks, roles and responsibilities, and SOPs are accurate and current.
• Actively communicate with business partners, escalation teams, security, infrastructure, data, and operations teams to resolve issues efficiently.
• Maintain strong knowledge of supported supply chain platforms, automation technologies, integrations, APIs, data services, and cloud/SaaS tools.
• Generate and implement operational improvement ideas that improve stability, scalability, cost, delivery speed, and team effectiveness.
• Oversee department technology budgets, licensing, vendor support, OpEx/CapEx reporting, and accurate time tracking.
• Maintain vendor relationships and hold partners accountable for service quality, roadmap alignment, pricing, delivery, and support commitments.
• Additional duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Supply Chain, Business, or related field preferred; equivalent experience considered.
• 8+ years of relevant technology, engineering, operations, or supply chain systems experience.
• 3+ years of people leadership experience, including coaching, performance management, prioritization, and team development.
• Supply Chain Technology: Working knowledge of WMS, WES, WCS, OMS, TMS, inventory, fulfillment, warehouse automation, EDI, APIs, integrations, and data platforms.
• Architecture & Design: Able to participate in solution architecture, design reviews, technical tradeoff discussions, implementation planning, testing strategy, change impact assessment, and rollback planning.
• AI Enablement: Practical understanding of AI-assisted engineering, documentation, knowledge management, analytics, automation, and support use cases, with sound judgment around responsible and secure AI adoption.
• Consolidation & Optimization: Able to identify duplicate systems, tools, reports, processes, licenses, and vendor services, then build rationalization plans that improve utilization and lower total cost.
• Analytical Skills: Explores information, data, reports, and metrics to extract meaningful insights that improve business performance, system health, resource utilization, and decision quality.
• Business Acumen: Understands key business drivers, company strategies, operational constraints, vendor economics, and financial data impacting the department and organization.
• Collaboration: Able to work effectively with internal and external partners, enterprise architecture, security, infrastructure, operations, and business stakeholders to accomplish shared goals.
• Customer Focus: Understands and improves the internal customer experience when designing services, support processes, technology roadmaps, and operational capabilities.
• Interpersonal Communication: Communicates with diverse audiences in a clear, concise, and courteous manner through verbal, written, presentation, and technical design artifacts.
• Initiative: Identifies opportunities and issues, proactively follows through, thinks critically, and drives continuous improvement with a positive, accountable attitude.
• Organizational Skills: Manages time, resources, priorities, and multiple workstreams while maintaining strong attention to detail and timely follow-through.
• Performance Management: Proven ability to provide constructive feedback, motivate team performance, develop talent, delegate appropriately, and improve team capability.
• Project Management: Able to develop and execute project plans, coordinate cross-functional groups, manage risks, track progress, and ensure timely completion.
• Technology Skills: Comfortable with modern engineering practices, SDLC, DevOps concepts, monitoring, incident/problem management, security practices, cloud/SaaS platforms, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Training: Able to create and deliver training, documentation, and knowledge-sharing practices that improve team capability, capacity, productivity, and performance.

Benefits

• Great People & Leadership: Work with a supportive, knowledgeable team dedicated to operational excellence.
• Professional Growth: Tangible career advancement opportunities, consistent recognition, and a team invested in individual and organizational success.
• Impact & Purpose: Play a crucial role in improving technology support services, minimizing business disruptions, and supporting the broader mission of creating more musicians and bringing music to the world.
• Steep Employee Discounts: Enjoy significant discounts on musical products and gear sold at The Guitar Center.
• Collaborative & Motivated Team Environment: Join a team that values documentation, prioritization, and problem-solving, all while fostering a culture of accountability and enjoyment.

Pay Rate

Base range of $120,000 - $153,367 per year, depending on background and experience.

This position is eligible to participate in the Guitar Center Company bonus program based on Company performance. The job posting does not necessarily reflect actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for any particular employee, which is always dependent on actual experience, education, and other factors. Pay ranges listed are provided in compliance with state specific laws. Pay ranges may be different in other locations.

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