VP, Global Supply Chain Solutions & Engineering

The Vice President, Global Operations Solutions and Engineering will manage, direct, and provide leadership across all functions of the supply chain organization including logistics solutions, operations automation, and infrastructure supporting logistics and supply chain transformation. The focus of this leader will be to provide global consistency and standardization across our global supply chain and logistics network while defining, supporting and implementing next generation capabilities.

The role will be responsible for enabling supply chain digital transformation through close collaboration with our Global Platform Group (GPG) and establishing and implementing a comprehensive portfolio of next generation capabilities. These would include developing a roadmap to implement supply chain enterprise digital and automation solutions that support defined financial returns and improved customer experience.

The position will manage an internal team solution engineers and work collaboratively with internal global stakeholders and cross functional teams GPG, Operations, Transportation, operations engineers, Process Excellence, Trade Compliance, Security, Sourcing, and Compliance to support a culture of innovation and execution supporting Ingram Micro’s businesses.

Additionally, this role will be responsible for defining, solutioning and implementing customer business capability requirements to support our growth of our global 3PL services business. Must be strategically aligned with our 3PL business to identify solutions and innovation that solve problems, grow the business and profitability, improve our competitive position, deliver employee productivity and ensure high quality services and support.

This role manages and directs executives, managers, supervisors and professional employees to include staffing and recruitment, supervision, development, performance evaluation and discipline. Role will manage and direct teams responsible for major system RFPs, global engineering projects, supply chain execution and planning systems. Cross functional collaboration, management and leadership at all levels within the corporate offices, business divisions, and in various distribution centers located throughout the globe will be required to respond to changing business needs.

Lead the creation and updating of a 3 to 5-year global supply chain and logistics strategy to include supply chain transformation, global capacity planning, automation recommendations, and cost optimization. Overall plan to include business case to support capital investment recommendations. Determine the buy or build strategy including the approach to talent and technology solutions. Define the future state of automation through a defined approach of business case approval, rapid proof of concept, pilot, and accelerated global expansion.

Contribute to the selection, and lead the configuration, deployment, and maintenance of key supply chain solutions including TMS, WMS, and other adjacent relevant technologies. Ensure seamless integration with the Ingram Micro Xvantage platform and evaluate and recommend emerging technologies to enhance operational supply chain capabilities. Serve as an advocate for the business in defining requirements, building business cases, enabling testing and adoption and ensuring successful rollout of enterprise initiatives.

Manage Next Gen Engineering and Functional leadership to support Ingram Micro culture of continuous improvement and transformation through automation, process standardization and innovations. This includes setting the strategic direction for global projects and managing the functional deployment at local and global scale ensuring project plans and business cases are supported at all levels of the organization. Accountabilities include site engineering, interaction with warehouse providers, negotiation and sourcing of applicable material handling equipment, and facilitation of business…