Director, Supply Chain Strategy, Analytics & Value Management

BUILD A BETTER CAREER WITH MSC

Serving customers and our community starts with the best people doing their best work. That is precisely what we have created at MSC Industrial Supply Co. We are a leading North American distributor of metalworking and maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO), products and services. We offer more than 2 million products and have over 80 years of experience across dozens of industries.

We aim to execute our Built to Make You Better brand promise for all our stakeholders, including our associates.

Requisition  :21336

Employment Type

:
Full Time

Job Category :
Supply Chain

Work Location :
Davidson, NC (CSC)

The Director, Supply Chain Strategy, Analytics & Value Management, serves as the financial and strategic business partner within the Logistics & Planning organization. This role is responsible for evaluating and optimizing supply chain investments, inventory deployment decisions, network initiatives, and operational performance through a value-based decision framework. This leader combines supply chain expertise, financial acumen, advanced analytics, and strategic planning capabilities to ensure logistics and planning investments deliver measurable improvements in customer service, inventory productivity, network efficiency, and working capital performance.

The role will partner closely with Planning, Transportation, Inventory Strategy, Category Management, Procurement, Operations, and Finance to ensure supply chain decisions are aligned with enterprise objectives and deliver sustainable value creation.

• Lead development of business cases and investment strategies supporting supply chain transformation initiatives.
• Evaluate tradeoffs among inventory investment, service levels, transportation costs, working capital, and growth opportunities.
• Develop financial and operational models supporting strategic decision making.
• Quantify and prioritize opportunities across inventory, transportation, network design, sourcing, and process improvement.
• Establish value-capture frameworks to ensure initiatives deliver measurable business results.

• Serve as the Logistics & Planning lead for inventory productivity and working capital performance.
• Partner with Inventory Strategy, Planning, Procurement, and Finance teams to establish inventory targets and performance goals.
• Develop analytics supporting:
  • Inventory turns
  • Inventory productivity
  • Fill rate optimization
  • Inventory investment levels
  • Excess and obsolete inventory reduction
• Evaluate opportunities to improve inventory deployment, assortment productivity, and network inventory placement.
• Support enterprise working capital reduction initiatives focused on releasing cash while protecting service levels. Inventory optimization and working capital productivity are identified priorities across multiple strategic initiatives

• Develop models supporting:
  • Network footprint decisions
  • Inventory placement strategies
  • Service level design
  • Transportation optimization
  • Facility investment decisions
  • Inventory segmentation strategies
• Quantify cost, service, inventory, and working capital impacts associated with network alternatives.
• Support executive reviews through scenario development and strategic recommendations.
• Network optimization initiatives have focused on inventory positioning, stocking strategies, transportation efficiency, and working capital productivity.

• Partner with Planning leadership to integrate financial outcomes into SIOP and IBP processes.
• Translate planning decisions into inventory, service, and working capital impacts.
• Develop scenario modeling capabilities to support executive decision-making.
• Lead supply chain performance reviews and strategic planning cycles.
• Facilitate alignment across Planning, Finance, Category Management, Procurement, and Logistics.
• Strong integration between operational planning and financial outcomes is considered a best practice for advanced planning organizations.

• Partner with the Planning Systems and Inventory Optimization teams to maximize business value from Blue Yonder investments.
• Measure realized benefits of planning system enhancements.
• Evaluate inventory policy performance and optimization opportunities.
• Develop KPI frameworks supporting inventory optimization initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics to improve decision quality.
• Blue Yonder upgrades and inventory optimization initiatives are identified as key strategic priorities.

• Own development of Supply Chain value dashboards and performance scorecards.
• Establish KPI governance across Logistics & Planning.
• Lead executive reporting related to:
  • Working capital
  • Inventory productivity
  • Service performance
  • Transportation costs
  • Network optimization
  • Strategic…