Director, Commercial Supply Chain Consulting

Opportunity

At Huron, we’re redefining what a consulting organization can be. We go beyond advice to deliver results that last. We inherit our client’s challenges as if they were our own. We help them transform for the future. We advocate. We make a difference. And we intelligently, passionately, relentlessly do great work together.

Are you the kind of person who stands ready to jump in, roll up your sleeves and transform ideas into action? Then discover Huron.

Huron’s Commercial Consulting practice partners with organizations to drive profitable growth, improve operational performance, and build resilience in an increasingly complex and disrupted business environment. We work side by side with clients across industries to solve critical commercial and operational challenges—combining deep functional expertise with data‑driven insights, advanced analytics, and pragmatic execution.

A core focus of our work is supply chain transformation. Our teams help clients strengthen end‑to‑end supply chain performance—from demand forecasting and inventory optimization to logistics, network design, and cost‑to‑serve visibility. We support organizations in navigating disruption, improving service levels, releasing working capital, and building resilient supply chains that deliver measurable financial impact, not just recommendations. By staying through execution, we ensure solutions are implemented effectively and results show up in our clients’ operations and financials.

The Opportunity: As a Director in Huron’s Commercial Supply Chain Consulting practice, you will serve as a trusted advisor to our clients, leading complex supply chain transformation initiatives that improve reliability, resilience, and operational performance. You will partner closely with client executives and internal stakeholders to shape strategy, design future‑state capabilities, and oversee implementation across people, process, data, and technology.

This role sits at the intersection of strategy and execution. You will lead multidisciplinary teams, manage large‑scale transformation programs, and help global organizations modernize supply chain capabilities. Directors at Huron are hands‑on leaders who build lasting client relationships while delivering results that show up in operations and financial performance.

• Lead end‑to‑end supply chain transformation efforts for Consumer Goods, Retail Distribution, Industrial and Automotive manufacturers, Energy & Utilities (or a subset of these industries) across sourcing and procurement of products, E2E planning and S&OP, logistics and distribution.
• Assess current‑state operating models, maturity, and performance; identify improvement opportunities using structured, data‑driven frameworks.
• Design future‑state supply chain architectures incorporating advanced planning, AI‑enabled forecasting, digital twins, automation, and predictive analytics.
• Advise executive stakeholders on supply chain modernization aligned to grid modernization, regulatory expectations, decarbonization goals, and long‑term capital programs.
• Build business cases and value models that quantify financial impact, productivity gains, risk reduction, and service‑level improvements.

• Develop and optimize end‑to‑end supply chain strategies tailored to the operating environment.
• Lead initiatives related to demand forecasting, planning, and S&OP models that balance service reliability with cost and working capital objectives.
• Support supply chain planning for major utility capital programs, including substations, undergrounding, AMI deployments, renewable interconnections, and pipeline projects.
• Improve coordination across engineering, sourcing, commercial, manufacturing, planning and logistics to enable a resilient execution.

• Lead strategic sourcing and category management initiatives across transmission and distribution equipment, field services, IT/OT, fleet, and materials.
• Oversee vendor selection, bid evaluations, negotiations, and contract development to achieve cost, reliability, and safety objectives.
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