Supply Chain Director Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

The Opportunity

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As a Supply Chain Decision Intelligence Senior Manager, you will lead complex, enterprise-scale transformations that help clients improve supply chain performance, resilience, and strategic growth. You will serve as a trusted advisor to senior executives, shape solution strategy, oversee multiple workstreams and engagement economics, and lead high-performing teams from pursuit through value realization. You will also play a significant role in growing the practice through business development, market offerings, thought leadership, and talent development.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Enterprise Decision Intelligence Transformations: Direct end-to-end implementation of supply chain decision intelligence platforms (e.g., Aera, Palantir, C3.ai, etc.), establishing the program vision, delivery model, roadmap, governance, and value case across multiple workstreams.
• Advise Executive Stakeholders: Build trusted relationships with senior client leaders and translate business priorities into decision intelligence strategies that improve planning, procurement, inventory, manufacturing, and logistics outcomes.
• Shape Business and Solution Architecture: Oversee the definition of business requirements, future-state processes, operating models, system designs, integration needs, and transformation objectives.
• Drive Process and Performance Improvement: Lead cross-functional assessments of current-state supply chain processes, identify value opportunities, and define measurable future-state capabilities aligned with strategic objectives.
• Oversee Data and Technology Enablement: Provide leadership for data readiness, migration, integration, governance, application configuration, and testing to ensure scalable and sustainable solutions.
• Own Program Delivery and Governance: Establish delivery standards, decision forums, risk controls, quality reviews, and executive reporting across complex programs and portfolios.
• Manage Engagement Economics: Own scope, staffing, budgets, forecasts, margin, contractual commitments, and delivery performance while identifying and addressing commercial and operational risks.
• Lead Change and Adoption: Guide change enablement, communications, training strategy, stakeholder alignment, and post-go-live support to accelerate adoption and value realization.
• Deliver Executive-Ready Work Products: Ensure the quality of business cases, roadmaps, solution designs, functional and technical documentation, test strategies, training materials, and value-realization reports.
• Develop and Lead Teams: Build inclusive, high-performing teams; provide coaching and performance feedback; develop future leaders; and manage senior client and internal resources across engagements.
• Drive Business Development: Originate and shape opportunities, lead proposals and client presentations, develop scopes and pricing, negotiate delivery approaches, and contribute to account growth.
• Build Market Offerings: Collaborate with alliance partners and practice leaders to develop repeatable assets, methodologies, demonstrations, and thought leadership in supply chain decision intelligence.
• Advance Practice Priorities: Support workforce planning, recruiting, capability development, knowledge sharing, and strategic initiatives that strengthen the practice.
• Travel Flexibility: Be willing to travel as needed to support client engagements.

Skills and Attributes for Success

• Executive presence and strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex concepts and influence senior stakeholders.
• Ability to define a compelling transformation vision, challenge conventional approaches, and align diverse stakeholders around decisions and outcomes.
• Strong commercial judgment, including the ability to shape opportunities, manage engagement economics, and balance client value with delivery commitments.
• Ability to connect supply chain strategy, process, data, analytics, and technology into practical, scalable solutions.
• Demonstrated success leading complex programs, multiple workstreams, and geographically dispersed teams.
• Ability to anticipate delivery, technology, organizational, and commercial risks and intervene appropriately.
• Commitment to developing people, fostering an inclusive culture, and building sustainable team capabilities.
• A market-facing mindset and the ability to contribute to offerings, alliances, thought leadership, and practice growth.

To Qualify for the Role, You Must Have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or a related field.
• A minimum of eight years of related work experience, or a graduate degree and seven years of related work experience.
• Significant experience in supply chain management, analytics, digital transformation, or decision intelligence, including leadership of complex client engagements.
• At least four years of experience implementing decision intelligence or advanced analytics solutions such as Aera, Palantir, or comparable platforms.
• Experience integrating decision intelligence capabilities with ERP and supply chain solutions such as SAP S/4HANA, Oracle Fusion Cloud, SAP IBP, Oracle SCM, or Kinaxis.
• Leadership experience on at least two full-lifecycle decision intelligence, advanced analytics, or supply chain technology implementations, including strategy, requirements, process design, build, testing, deployment, adoption, and post-go-live support; at least one implementation must have been completed within the last three years.
• Demonstrated experience managing large teams, multiple workstreams, executive governance, delivery risk, project financials, and third-party or alliance relationships.
• Proven business development experience, including opportunity shaping, proposal leadership, scope and pricing development, and executive presentations.
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment and to drive decisions amid ambiguity.
• Experience in one or more of the following industries: Consumer Products, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, Technology, or Telecommunications.
• Ability to work in person at an EY office and/or client location up to 50% of the time, based on client and project needs.
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employer sponsorship, now and in the future

Ideally, You’ll Also Have:

• Experience with predictive and prescriptive analytics, scenario modeling, optimization, digital twins, or autonomous planning and execution.
• Experience developing or scaling supply chain decision intelligence offerings, accelerators, or managed services.
• Master’s degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Analytics, or a related field.
• Professional certifications in supply chain, project or program management, cloud, data, analytics, or relevant enterprise platforms.
• Experience working with cloud data platforms, artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities, and modern integration architectures.
• Established relationships with decision intelligence, ERP, supply chain planning, or cloud technology providers.

What We Look For

We seek a senior consulting leader who combines deep supply chain and decision intelligence experience with executive presence, commercial acumen, and a track record of delivering complex transformations. The successful candidate will build trusted client relationships, create new market opportunities, develop talented teams, and translate emerging technology into measurable business value.

What we offer you
At EY, we harness our collective strength to empower you to shape your future with confidence through professional growth, personal fulfillment and an inclusive culture. Learn more at ey.com/us/careers.

• The salary range for this job is:
  • New York City, Boston, and Washington DC Metro Areas, Washington State, and Southern California offices – $205,900 to $427,800
  • Bay Area California offices – $214,600 to $445,700
  • All other offices locations in the US, including Sacramento – $171,600 to $392,100
• Individual salaries within these ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.

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