Senior Supply Chain Consultant

Packoneers; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel expenses covered

Health insurance

401k with employer matching

Laptop and phone provided

Paid time off 28 days

Job summary

Packoneers, a boutique management consulting firm, seeks a Senior Supply Chain Consultant to lead client engagements from scoping to delivery in the North American market. The role combines hands-on project leadership with business development and mentoring of junior staff.

The right candidate has a STEM or business background with SCM, S&OP, and analytics experience, and is comfortable traveling across the US. Hybrid Chicago location with a modern workspace supports collaboration and growth.

Qualifications

• Senior SCM consultant with 3–6 years in the field.
• Willing to travel across North America.
• Experience in packaging/printing industries.
• Strong client-facing leadership and delivery capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead S&OP design and implementation from scoping to go-live.
• Own working capital diagnostics, benchmarking, and gap analyses.
• Direct demand planning and inventory optimization workstreams.
• Manage client relationships and engagement economics.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Power BI

Tableau

SQL

Education

STEM degree

MBA

Job description

Office Location – Chicago, IL (hybrid; modern co-working space) +

Location of Consulting Engagements – National/Various Locations around the US

Position – Senior Supply Chain Consultant

Date – October 2026

Website - www.packoneers.com/what-we-do

Packoneers is looking for a Senior Supply Chain Consultant who has the key mix of professional and academic experiences that will easily align with firm’s youthful and disciplined culture, and the current consulting engagements in which the firm is engaged.

Packoneers is a boutique management consulting firm specializing in the packaging industry, improving performance along the entire value stream with a focus on operational and administrative efficiency, with offices in Vienna, Austria and Denver, Colorado, now building out its Chicago, Illinois presence as part of the North American expansion.

As Senior Consultant, you will take ownership of client engagements from scoping through delivery — leading the work, owning the client relationship, and helping shape how Packoneers grows in the North American market. This is a senior, client-facing role that combines hands-on engagement leadership with business development and the mentoring of junior team members.

The right candidate will have a degree in engineering (industrial, mechanical), business or supply chain, with a graduate degree or MBA a plus, and will bring experience in efficiency management consulting focused on the packaging and printing industries, manufacturing, automation, and related process and system improvements.

Company Background

Packoneers was founded, and is led, by an experienced team of management leading engagements with large-scale US-based packaging and printing companies. The aim and scope of work is to fully understand and drive production, operations, supply chain, administrative, and system efficiencies for its clients. And ultimately significant and sustainable increased levels of profitability.

Packoneers’ key market segments span FMCG (fast moving consumer goods) items – food & beverage, food service, home and garden, personal care, health care, pet care, beauty, as well as e-commerce, and various other types of contract packaging and manufacturing.

Packoneers analyzes various printing technologies and production steps, including offset, Flexo, Rotogravure, cutting and creasing, hot foil, window patching, slitting, and gluing, etc., as well as administrative and supply chain processes - providing a holistic view of the technology and workflow utilization across the sector.

By leveraging this knowledge, Packoneers’ clients gain valuable insights into the current performance levels of their industry. Every engagement and project begins with seeking to deeply understand the current technologies and processes that are in place - by conducting in-depth interviews with key stakeholders that uncover the unique operational challenges and goals that leveraging the firms’ existing extensive benchmarking database, then comparing the client’s performance against industry leaders and peers.

Packoneers then identifies critical gaps and mapping opportunities for improvement, creating the foundation for increased growth.

Job Description & Key Responsibilities

Client Delivery

• Lead S&OP process design and implementation engagements from scoping through go-live


• Own working capital diagnostics, benchmarking, and operations gap analyses for client accounts


• Direct demand planning and inventory optimization workstreams


• Serve as the primary client contact — manage relationship, expectations, and engagement economics


• Lead client workshops and steering committee presentations


• Review and guide the work of Consultants and Junior Consultants on the engagement team

Analytics & Data

• Set the analytical approach for engagements and quality-check models and dashboards built by the team


• Translate complex supply chain data into client-ready insight and recommendations


• Evaluate digital SCM platforms and proprietary Packoneers tools for client use


• Write user stories and provide high-level feedback to developers as Packoneers' own tools are built out

Qualifications

• Senior Supply Chain Consultant who has key professional and academic experience aligning with the firm’s current consulting engagements


• Self-starter with a well-established consulting approach, and the ability and willingness to learn from Packoneers partners and senior consultants


• Entrepreneurial and creative mindset for performance-driven packaging and printing industry manufacturing consulting, and a verifiable track record


• Openness to significant business travel in North America


• Comfortable working in an international, cross-cultural team environment (Austrian/European + American)


• Minimum academic and professional qualifications are a degree in an applicable STEM field (industrial, mechanical engineering), or a business or supply chain discipline. Graduate degrees, MBA a plus


• Experience in the packaging and printing industries preferred


• Expected work experience of 3 to 6 years – in SCM, S&OP, procurement, logistics, operations consulting, including client-facing delivery leadership


• Advanced Excel and BI tool fluency (Power BI, Tableau); SQL a plus


• Confident client-facing presence — able to lead workshops and executive-level conversations


• Skilled at translating complex data into clear, decision-ready narratives


• Proposal writing and commercial acumen

Compensation and Benefits

• Unique opportunity to join Packoneers’ fast-growing US team and play a defining role in the North American expansion


• Compensation: $100,000 to $110,000 base salary depending on relevant experience, plus a performance bonus of up to 30% of base – total target compensation of $130,000 to $143,000.


• Retirement (401k) with employer matching + health insurance with employer contributions


• Travel expenses are fully covered (airfare, ground transportation, hotels, per diem)


• Company laptop, phone, and MS Office


• 20 Paid Time Off days + 8 paid holidays per year