Director, Channel Business Partnerships – Global Supply Chain

Now Brewing – director, Channel Business Partnerships & Supply Chain

As a director, Channel Business Partnerships & Supply Chain, you will:

• Serve as the primary supply chain leader for Channel businesses and strategic partnerships, building trusted relationships and aligning supply chain capabilities with business priorities and growth objectives.
• Translate business strategies into integrated supply chain solutions while ensuring key opportunities, risks, constraints, and tradeoffs are understood and addressed.
• Influence and align stakeholders across functions and organizational levels to drive enterprise decision-making and business outcomes.
• Lead the Integrated Business Planning (IBP/S&OP) process, aligning demand, supply, inventory, financial, and operational plans to achieve service, growth, and profitability objectives.
• Own end-to-end planning performance across demand planning, supply planning, replenishment, and inventory management to ensure product availability while optimizing working capital and cost.
• Partner with Commercial, Product, Operations, Manufacturing, Procurement, and Finance teams to develop executable plans, scenario-based recommendations, and performance improvement strategies.
• Lead supply chain readiness for innovation and new product launches, ensuring capacity, sourcing, inventory, and operational alignment support successful commercialization.
• Anticipate and proactively mitigate supply chain and operational risks while leading issue resolution, contingency planning, and executive escalation processes during business disruptions.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance service, quality, cost efficiency, responsiveness, and supply reliability through process improvements, analytics, and data-driven decision making.
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team while fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and growth-oriented culture.
• Establish governance, performance measures, accountability mechanisms, and operating rhythms that support execution and business results.
• Shape future supply chain capabilities through process innovation, technology adoption, advanced planning systems, and organizational capability building.

• 10+ years of progressive experience in Supply Chain, Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Replenishment, Operations, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated success leading Integrated Business Planning (IBP/S&OP) processes and managing end-to-end supply chain performance.
• Proven track record of building strategic partnerships and driving alignment, collaboration, and influence across cross-functional teams, senior leaders, and external partners.
• Experience leading complex operational initiatives, managing risk, and solving business challenges through cross-functional collaboration.
• Strong analytical, financial, communication, and executive presentation skills.
• Proven leadership experience developing high-performing teams and organizational capability.
• Experience leading business transformation, process improvement, and technology-enabled planning initiatives.

• Product Availability and Service Levels
• Forecast Accuracy and Planning Performance Inventory Productivity and Working Capital Management
• Supply Chain Cost Optimization
• New Product Launch Success
• Supplier and Partner Performance
• Risk Mitigation and Business Continuity Outcomes
• Team Engagement and Capability Development

As a Starbucks partner, you (and your family) will have access to medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, and other voluntary insurance benefits. Partners have access to short-term and long-term disability, paid parental leave, family expansion reimbursement, paid vacation from date…