Senior Supply Chain Executive

About the Role

The Sr. Supply Chain Executive identifies and leads work on opportunities to improve the cost, speed, and quality of Kohl's logistics operations.

This role is for you if you:

Enjoy partnering with internal and external stakeholders to drive supply chain initiatives.

Engage in activities to further develop executive presence and leadership

Like analyzing data to find answers to important business questions

Are energized by finding ways to improve business processes

What You'll Do

• Identify, analyze and communicate supply chain issues and solutions to Sr leadership and key business partners
• Conduct annual budgeting, long-range planning and performance monitoring for area of responsibility
• Lead cross-functional project management coordination
• Work simultaneously on multiple projects with multiple vendors, ensuring goals are met.
• Establishes KPIs and partner across the organization to deliver results
• Provide project management coaching and guidance to team members
• Additional tasks as assigned

• Own vendor relationships and serve as POC for Kohl's Logistics
• Lead communication to bridge the communication gap between routing tool development, user experience, and business needs
• Enhance package routing through developing and implementing modules in routing tool
• Execute routing decisions to drive speed and cost efficiencies for all e-commerce orders

• Review, understand, and manage key contractual components Kohl's has in place with carriers and vendors
• Lead contract analysis to identify cost saving opportunities, compare quality of services, and provide recommendations on key issues of negotiation
• Lead parcel RFP and carrier communications

• Build and maintain outbound package forecast models for Kohl's e-commerce fulfillment network.
• Partner with internal teams to analyze and understand variables that directly impact parcel forecasting. Identify and communicate risks to key stakeholders.
• Serve as POC for peak carrier capacity planning

• Identify and lead cost savings initiatives for the Logistics Network
• Partner with carriers, vendors, and internal partners to execute initiatives

• Owns carriers relationships and leads contract negotiations with carrier providers
• Leads, manages and is one of the primary decision makers in annual truck-load RFP
• Provides insight and viewpoint to budgets, forecasting and other key metrics
• Leads new project implementations
• Drives performance changes with carriers
• Decision maker in any route, lane or mode changes within U.S. network
• Identify and lead cost savings initiatives for the Domestic Transportation network Network
• Partner with carriers, vendors, and internal partners to execute initiatives

• Acts as the liaison into the supply chain for merchants and 3rd party vendors.
• Leads new project implementations.
• Identify and lead strategies to remove friction within the supply chain
• Identify opportunities and implement strategies to support the education of supply chain best practices throughout the organization and with vendors
• Identify strategies and deliver innovation with respect to operational implementation of opportunities that reduce costs or increase revenue
• Support recurring budgeting, forecasting, reporting and other operational activities

• Lead supply chain network design projects, including the placement of facilities and merchandise flow between facilities
• Lead analytical projects to determine the optimal way to organize complex business processes
• Communicate facts and narratives concisely and precisely
• Build intuitive and insightful data visualizations
• Capably analyze data with SQL and R/Python

• Development and execution of long range inventory placement and operational strategies
• Lead, manage, an promote cost saving strategies identified within the technology roadmap
• Coordinate and influence partners across the organization and third party vendors to drive strategies
• Clearly build and communicate facts and narratives to all levels of the company

• Bachelor's Degree
• Demonstrated initiative and drive
• Strong analytical abilities- comfortable with spreadsheets and data analysis
• Clear and professional communication
• Demonstrates qualities of thought leadership
• Presentation of clear and concise business operational measures and status of key business programs to Leadership
• Curious mindset seeking and delivering operational improvements of our supply chain
• May require overnight travel
• Flexible schedule to support peak business operations