Supply Chain Lead Jobs in San Francisco, CA

The Opportunity

As a Supply Chain Decision Intelligence Manager, you will lead teams in delivering transformative decision intelligence solutions for clients, helping them optimize supply chain performance and drive strategic growth. You’ll work with high-performing teams, engage with executive stakeholders, and contribute to practice development and sales activities. Your leadership will help build an inclusive culture and foster high-performing teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Decision Intelligence Implementations: Manage end-to-end implementation of decision intelligence platforms (e.g., Aera, Palantir), including project estimation, initiation, planning, design, build, and deployment.
• Document Business Requirements: Capture and translate business requirements, system design, and transformation goals for supply chain decision intelligence projects.
• Process Optimization: Partner with clients to analyze current-state supply chain processes and define future-state processes aligned with business objectives.
• Data Migration Leadership: Oversee data migration activities from a supply chain perspective, ensuring data integrity and readiness for decision intelligence tools.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Guide users and development teams on issues related to the implementation of supply chain decision intelligence solutions across planning, procurement, inventory, and logistics management.
• Application Configuration & Testing: Configure decision intelligence applications per requirements and lead/conduct testing phases
• Project Documentation: Develop project documentation, including functional and technical documentation, test scripts and training materials, to support user adoption and change management.
• Training Leadership: Lead training strategy and planning to ensure successful user enablement and adoption of decision intelligence solutions.
• Post Go-Live Support: Provide ongoing support after solution deployment to ensure sustained performance and value realization.
• Resource & Budget Management: Manage project resources and budgets, ensuring delivery excellence and client satisfaction.
• Team Leadership: Guide teams in identifying business requirements, functional and process design, prototyping, testing, training, and support procedures.
• Program Leadership: Participate in program governance, leadership, and change enablement activities.
• Business Development: Support practice leadership in creating proposals, budgets, and workplans, and participate in other business development activities.
• Travel Flexibility: Be willing to travel as needed to support client engagements.

Skills and Attributes for Success

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex concepts for diverse audiences.
• Ability to challenge and inspire teams and clients to approach supply chain challenges in innovative ways.
• Provide commercial insights, adapt methods to fit operational and cultural needs, and contribute to thought leadership in decision intelligence.
• Drive operational efficiency on projects and internal initiatives.
• Consistently deliver high-quality project outcomes.
• Lead teams, anticipate risks, and escalate issues appropriately.
• Foster a positive learning culture and mentor junior team members.

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 five years of related work experience, or a graduate degree and four years of related work experience.
• Deep experience in supply chain management, analytics, or decision intelligence platforms.
• Two to three years of experience implementing decision intelligence or advanced analytics solutions (e.g., Aera, Palantir, or similar).
• Experience working with ERP solutions (SAP S4, Oracle Fusion Cloud, etc.) to manage supply chain processes or perform supply chain analysis.
• At least one recent (within the last 3 years) full lifecycle implementation of a decision intelligence platform, including requirements gathering, process design, testing, go-live, and support.
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
• 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 analytics, scenario modeling, or supply chain optimization.
• Experience with mobile supply chain solutions and advanced scheduling/dispatch tools.
• Master’s degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, Supply Chain, or a related field.
• Broader experience with supply chain platforms (e.g., SAP IBP, Oracle SCM, Kinaxis).
• Desire to work in an information systems environment.
• Experience with cloud-based supply chain solutions and related tools.

What We Look For

We seek passionate leaders with a strong vision and a desire to stay ahead of trends in supply chain decision intelligence. If you have the skills and knowledge to drive innovation for our clients and teams, this role is for you.

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 – $171,200 to $285,300
  • Bay Area California offices – $178,400 to $297,200
  • All other offices locations in the US, including Sacramento – $142,600 to $261,500
• 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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