Supply Chain Senior Manager - Business Transformation

Embark People; Texas; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Healthcare fully paid

Growth stipend

CPE credits access

401(k) matching

Social events

Job summary

Embark is seeking a seasoned supply chain and operations leader to run client engagements across assessment, redesign, and implementation. You will own operating-model views, size gaps, and turn findings into a defensible roadmap for procurement, manufacturing, logistics, and inventory.

You will run day-to-day engagements, manage client stakeholders, and ensure quality before presenting to the engagement lead. ERP, WMS, TMS experience preferred.

Qualifications

• A strong record leading supply chain and operations engagements, from assessment through implementation.
• Deep operating-model experience: network design, S&OP, procurement, inbound, warehousing, manufacturing, logistics.
• Hands-on assessment work across procurement, manufacturing, logistics, and inventory.
• Command of supply chain cost analysis: spend-base builds, logistics and freight cost structures, and peer benchmarking.
• Strong analytical and modeling skills, with comfort working from ERP data, spend data, and a data room.
• Direct experience with senior client and deal-team stakeholders. You present findings with a clear point of view and defend them under scrutiny.
• 8+ years in management consulting, transaction advisory, or a comparable supply chain operating role.

Responsibilities

• Lead supply chain assessments for acquisition targets, platforms, and standalone operating companies. Validate operational viability, surface risks and liabilities early, and quantify cost takeout and synergy opportunities.
• Assess the current state across procurement, manufacturing, logistics, and inventory. Map processes end to end, flag manual steps, and score functional maturity against peers.
• Design future-state operating models. Set network footprint, sourcing strategy, inventory policy, spans, layers, decision rights, and headcount for the combined or standalone business.
• Act as a functional leader in technology transformations related to ERP, WMS, TMS and other business systems that impact supply chain and operations.
• Bring operations depth to the engagement. Assess S&OP, demand planning, and inventory management, and tie those processes to the financial outcomes they drive.
• Benchmark against the right peers. Use spend, logistics cost, inventory turns, and headcount benchmarks to build a position clients, buyers, and sellers will underwrite.
• Lead post-close and post-redesign implementation. Build the Day-1 readiness plan, the transformation roadmap and the governance model, then support execution.
• Run the engagement day to day. Manage the timeline, integrate the workstreams, and serve as a primary point of contact for the client.
• Direct and develop the team. Guide associates and functional specialists, and review their work before it goes out.

Skills

Supply chain leadership

Operations engagements

ERP/WMS/TMS

Cost analysis

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Client-facing leadership

Tools

ERP

WMS

TMS

Job description

Embarkers enjoy:

• Work-life integration: We encourage our team to balance work with personal life. 95% of our employees feel they can take time off when necessary
• Growth and development: We offer continuous learning opportunities, including CPE credits and coaching, to support our employees' professional growth and ensure they execute excellently for clients
• Award-winning culture: Recognized for our outstanding workplace environment, we prioritize the happiness and well-being of our team

Embark isn't your ordinary consulting firm. We're committed to cultivating a workplace where everyone can thrive-where happiness is at the core of our success. Where Happy Works. Our team is dedicated to solving complex problems for finance, accounting, HR, and technology leaders with forward-thinking solutions and unparalleled hospitality.

Here are a few reasons why 93% of Embarkers agree that we offer special and unique benefits:

• Unlimited PTO: Enjoy unlimited PTO to recharge and pursue your passions
• Comprehensive healthcare: 100% paid premiums for you and your family
• Whole human growth: $150 monthly stipend for holistic development
• Career advancement: Access to CPE credits, learning platforms, coaching, and professional development
• Financial support: Up to 3% 401(k) matching and financial advisory services
• Team and community engagement: Monthly social events within your market, charitable matching, and great people!

The role

You will lead supply chain and operations engagements across assessment, redesign, and implementation. You own the operating-model view of a client's supply chain, size the people, process, and technology gaps across procurement, manufacturing, logistics, and inventory, and turn your findings into a defensible story and a prioritized roadmap.

This is a client-facing leadership role. You run engagements day to day, manage client stakeholders, and own the quality of the work before it reaches the engagement lead. You bring operations depth to every assessment: network design, cost-to-serve, working capital, and tech enabled process optimization.

We work for private equity sponsors, institutional investors, corporate acquirers, and their portfolio companies, as well as corporate operating companies directly. Engagements span M&A-related supply chain diligence and integration, and standalone operational transformation outside a deal context.

What you'll do

• Lead supply chain assessments for acquisition targets, platforms, and standalone operating companies. Validate operational viability, surface risks and liabilities early, and quantify cost takeout and synergy opportunities.
• Assess the current state across procurement, manufacturing, logistics, and inventory. Map processes end to end, flag manual steps, and score functional maturity against peers.
• Design future-state operating models. Set network footprint, sourcing strategy, inventory policy, spans, layers, decision rights, and headcount for the combined or standalone business.
• Act as a functional leader in technology transformations related to ERP, WMS, TMS and other business systems that impact supply chain and operations.
• Bring operations depth to the engagement. Assess S&OP, demand planning, and inventory management, and tie those processes to the financial outcomes they drive.
• Benchmark against the right peers. Use spend, logistics cost, inventory turns, and headcount benchmarks to build a position clients, buyers, and sellers will underwrite.
• Lead post-close and post-redesign implementation. Build the Day-1 readiness plan, the transformation roadmap and the governance model, then support execution.
• Run the engagement day to day. Manage the timeline, integrate the workstreams, and serve as a primary point of contact for the client.
• Direct and develop the team. Guide associates and functional specialists, and review their work before it goes out.

What you'll bring

• A strong record leading supply chain and operations engagements, from assessment through implementation.
• Deep operating-model experience: network design, S&OP, procurement, inbound, warehousing, manufacturing, logistics.
• Hands-on assessment work across procurement, manufacturing, logistics, and inventory.
• Command of supply chain cost analysis: spend-base builds, logistics and freight cost structures, and peer benchmarking.
• Strong analytical and modeling skills, with comfort working from ERP data, spend data, and a data room.
• Direct experience with senior client and deal-team stakeholders. You present findings with a clear point of view and defend them under scrutiny.
• 8+ years in management consulting, transaction advisory, or a comparable supply chain operating role.

Flexibility across the firm

Embark is a lean team, and our work doesn't always fit inside a single functional lane. This role is not limited to supply chain engagements. You should expect to support and, where your skills fit, lead projects outside core SCM, including fin