Manager Sr., Strategy & Analytics

The Senior Manager, Strategy & Analytics is responsible for driving strategic initiatives, financial and performance management, business intelligence, process transformation, and data-driven decision-making across the North America Supply Chain organization. This role partners with Supply Chain leadership, Finance, functional teams, brand stakeholders, and external advisors to develop insights, identify opportunities, and deliver initiatives that improve cost, service, quality, visibility, and operational performance.

The successful candidate combines strong financial acumen, advanced analytical capabilities, strategic thinking, project leadership, executive communication, and the ability to influence across a complex, multi-brand organization.

• Support the development, governance, and execution of the NASC multi-year strategy and annual priorities.

• Translate strategic objectives into measurable initiatives, roadmaps, KPIs, milestones, and business outcomes, including the Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard.

• Lead cross-functional initiatives focused on supply chain transformation, process optimization, digital enablement, end-to-end connectivity, and organizational effectiveness.

• Identify opportunities to simplify operations, standardize ways of working, and accelerate continuous improvement.

• Project Portfolio & Analyst Leadership:
  Provide leadership, direction, prioritization, and mentoring for Supply Chain analysts supporting strategic and operational work streams.

• Partner with Supply Chain leadership and Finance to support Annual Operating Plan (AOP) development, forecasting, cost reporting, and performance tracking.

• Develop and maintain consistent reporting for budgets, operating costs, cost savings, cost avoidance, productivity initiatives, and spend performance.

• Monitor, validate, and communicate value realization from strategic sourcing, logistics, transformation, and process improvement initiatives.

• Provide financial insights and recommendations that support investment decisions, resource prioritization, and corrective actions.

• Strengthen governance and consistency in the measurement and reporting of savings and value creation.

• Transform complex operational, financial, supplier, sourcing, logistics, inventory, and contract data into actionable insights and concise executive recommendations.

• Connect data, business context, and strategic priorities to identify trends, risks, opportunities, root causes, and performance gaps.

• Develop dashboards, scorecards, visualizations, and leadership presentations that improve visibility, accountability, and decision-making.

• Communicate analytical findings through compelling business narratives tailored to senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Partner with Technology, Data, and business teams to automate reporting and improve data quality, accessibility, and adoption.

• Lead process mapping, current-state assessments, future-state design, and implementation planning.

• Apply Lean, Six Sigma, DMAIC, or comparable methodologies to improve performance and sustain results.

• Support enterprise initiatives involving procurement transformation, Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM), Master Data Management (MDM), procure-to-pay optimization, and automation.

• Develop business cases, implementation roadmaps, benefit tracking, and value realization plans for strategic investments.

• Work with external consultants, industry experts, technology providers, and benchmarking organizations to identify leading practices and emerging trends.

• Evaluate and adapt relevant best practices across supply chain, procurement, analytics, process excellence, and organizational effectiveness.

• Ensure effective knowledge transfer from external partners and embed new methodologies, tools, frameworks, and ways of working within the organization.

• Design and support capability-building initiatives, including training, coaching, playbooks, and communities of practice.

• Build organizational readiness and sustainable adoption through stakeholder engagement and change management.

• Serve as a strategic thought partner to Supply Chain leaders and business stakeholders.

• Lead governance meetings, workshops, executive reviews, and cross-functional working sessions.

• Facilitate…