Senior Director End to End Supply Chain Transformation

The Senior Director End to End Supply Chain Transformation is responsible for the strategic leadership and business transformation of the endtoend supply chain strategy & processes including integrated business planning demand planning supply planning procurement inventory optimization production scheduling logistics and fulfillment.  This role is responsible to ensure alignment between strategy systems architecture business processes & governance.  This is highly crossfunctional role providing strategic alignment across sales business units procurement manufacturing logistics and finance teams as well as managing all crucial aspects of the supply chain processes. This key member of the leadership team will drive the development / implementation of businessfocused supply chain initiatives throughout the organization including a new advanced supply chain planning system as well as identify and implement global supply chain solutions that create sustainable competitive advantages in cost cash quality & service levels. 

• Domain Expertise: Strong supply chain planning knowledge & expertise in implementing strategy and transformational Supply Chain projects including implementation of a new endtoend supply chain planning system which includes allocation scenario building order scheduling etc.
• Customer Focused: Partner with crossfunctional teams to innovate and transform the business models and improved internal and external customer experiences 
• Passion and Urgency: Identify prioritize and execute on strategic growth initiatives in Supply Chain by working cross functionally across BU sales manufacturing procurement and logistics fulfillment  
• Initiative and Ownership: Ability to act with limited oversight on daytoday basis balancing multiple priorities. Quickly build HDD domain knowledge credibility and longterm trusting relationships quickly at all levels
• Highly Analytical: Experience decomposing and solving real world business problems ideally building/using advanced analytics and emerging technologies 
• Natural Problemsolver: Solve the real operational problems impacting operating margin be comfortable with data and ambiguity and be able to both delve into the details and engage meaningfully on the overall strategy
• Communications and Influence: Excellent communication skills with the ability to distill complex thoughts and strategies into simple actionable recommendations and effectively influence senior stakeholders
• Execute Across Disciplines:  Capability with analytics technology process and op model design to create and implement holistic solutions working with IT and business partners.
• Keeping the Lights On: Have your fingertip on the pulse of the business to ensure it is operating as successfully as possible stepping in to help drive improvements as needed.

Qualifications :

• This individual will ideally have at least 10 years of experience leading supply chain transformation solving complex business problems developing key metrics and executing successful projects in advanced supply chain planning ERP or similar environments. 
• Experience in advanced supply chain planning system implementation
• Masters degree in industrial engineering certification from APICS and PMP is preferred
• Strong experience in implementing and managing advanced planning systems for endtoend supply chain including demand supply planning allocation scenario planning factory scheduling and inventory management 
• Extensive experience in building business cases measuring ROI defining future state creating budget & resource plans for execution and managing program execution 
• Strong people management experience having managed large diverse distributed teams across different geolocations and has demonstrated ability to grow and develop team members
• Strong fiscal budgeting skills and experience with handling OpEx budgets and program budgets
• Ability to manage and influence stakeholder relationships with executive leaders and peers

Additional Information :

Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race color ancestry religion (including religious dress and grooming standards) sex (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions breastfeeding or related medical conditions) gender (including a persons gender identity gender expression and genderrelated appearance and behavior whether or not stereotypically associated with the persons assigned sex at birth) age national origin sexual orientation medical condition marital status (including domestic partnership status) physical disability mental disability medical condition genetic information protected medical and family care leave Civil Air Patrol status military and veteran status or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our nondiscrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal poster. Our pay transparency policy is available here.

Western Digital thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees our company our customers and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging respect and contribution.

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Based on our experience we anticipate that the application deadline will be 01/14/2025 (3 months from posting) although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.

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Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employees pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills ability knowledge of the job; (3) performance contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California Colorado New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California Colorado and New York.  This range may be modified in the future.
• You will be eligible to participate in Western Digitals ShortTerm Incentive (STI) Plan which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance.  Depending on your role and your performance you may be eligible to participate in our annual LongTerm Incentive (LTI) program which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires subject to Western Digitals Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life accident and disability insurance; taxadvantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D legal plan pet insurance critical illness accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program employee stock purchase plan and the Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus commission benefits or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Companys sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Companys sole discretion consistent with the law.