Sr Manager Supply Chain Strategy
Ulta Beauty
- Bolingbrook, IL
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Identifying, building, and evolving the Supply Chain capabilities needed to enable Ulta Beauty’s enterprise strategy
- Leading the Supply Chain team through definition and execution of strategic initiatives focused on efficiency, innovation, and guest experience
- Leading the strategic development and ongoing management of annual planning activities for the Supply Chain team (i.e., enterprise planning, goals & objectives, etc.)
- Collaborating with internal business partners, including senior leaders, on creation and management of long-term strategic roadmap that defines capabilities required to support future business growth and superior guest experience
- Managing the overall Supply Chain portfolio capturing initiative status, facilitate prioritization efforts and manage initiative intake
- Leading Supply Chain project scoping and prioritization to ensure alignment to enterprise goals and objectives and adherence to enterprise constraints and guardrails
- Developing scorecards and roadmaps for strategic initiatives, including key achievements, timelines, KPIs, sequencing, resource allocation, leadership touchpoints/approvals, risk mitigation and reporting
- Creating strategic presentations and communications (e.g., Board of Directors Presentations)
- Developing hypotheses that could support future projects that drive efficiency
- Leading external market and competitive landscape assessments
- Leading Supply Chain sustainability efforts to drive sustainability improvements and continue and accelerate our environmental leadership across Supply Chain
- Identifing business challenges and develop strategic, analytical, financial frameworks to analyze
- Collaborating with multiple stakeholders including Distribution, Transportation, Merchandise Planning & Operations, Marketing, Digital, Stores, Finance, and Information Technology to gain alignment on the Supply Chain strategy
- Supporting the effort to tell the Supply Chain story through crafting PowerPoint presentations and working with key stakeholders across the company to understand the best way to influence others
- Partnering with Supply Chain teams to translate long-term strategic plan into actionable project charters that define project scope, timing, resource requirements, budget, etc.
- Providing ongoing oversight and reporting against overall supply chain project and capability portfolio to leadership
- Developing, managing, and leading Supply Chain environmental sustainability strategies and roadmap ensuring alignment with enterprise environment and sustainability goals
- Developing and implementing a value realization capability to define, capture and manage value for key Supply Chain initiatives to deliver on our Supply Chain strategic and financial objectives
- Bachelors or master’s degree from an accredited college with a focus on Strategy, Finance, or Supply Chain Management. (MBA preferred)
- Minimum 3 years consulting or strategy experience
- Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in retail supply chain, operations management, or strategy consulting (4 years’ experience at a top-tier consulting firm preferred)
- Self-starter able to successfully execute against departmental goals with minimal guidance
- Comfortable working independently and in a collaborative, cross-functional manner
- Able to influence and drive accountability among associates across multiple departments
- Able to manage multiple projects/multiple presentation deadlines at one time
- Able to develop presentation materials for communicating strategies to key stakeholders
- Able to work additional hours and weekends during critical project times
- Strong strategic mindset, with critical reasoning and qualitative analysis experience
- Strong interpersonal, communication (written and verbal) and analytical skills with an understanding of financials of each segment of the supply chain.
- Enthusiastic, persistent, action-oriented, and a strong sense of accountability
- Strong working knowledge in Word, Excel, Access, MS Project and Power-Point