JOB SUMMARY:

As a Director, Supply Chain IT, this role will be primarily responsible for identifying, developing, and implementing projects and initiatives to meet needs of Supply Chain/Logistics IT Platforms. We are seeking a technically strong person who is eager to manage a team. Ideally, you will have experience executing a enterprise scale green-field application implementation. You will have mentored and managed a team in the past, and you have passion for technology. This is a dynamic, highly diverse team, and we are passionate about embodying a culture of positivity. Provide management and guidance to the Supply Chain/Logistics Application Team staff, focus on the implementation of new and enhanced applications, high availability and quick resolution of the services delivered. This position has responsibility for all support aspects of 7-Eleven's Supply Chain/Logistics IT Function, including integration with standard 3rd party applications, warehouse management applications, corporate and retail applications. Maintain, close liaison with various business partners, vendors and product teams, and ensure ongoing service and support can be maintained to defined service levels.

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES:

• Responsible for this portfolio’s budget, projects, and resources planning.
• Lead the development, delivery, and operations of technology solutions to support the modernization of supply chain and logistics capabilities
• Lead the efforts to stay current on the logistics and supply chain technology stack and platforms
• Responsible for partnership and collaboration with various cross-functional teams (Supply Chain/Logistics business teams, product management teams, store operations, Merchandising teams, and other IT Teams) to modernize supply chain platform.
• Provides technical oversight across systems and applications, leverage skills across multiple apps.
• Provides a holistic view of the production environment for both technology and business management, working closely as a trusted partner for senior business heads.
• Consults with the primary stakeholders of the application in conjunction with development managers in order to understand the strategic objectives of users.
• Assess project risks and develop contingency plans.
• Identifies and obtains commitments from required resources. Maintains team cohesiveness and holds resources accountable to commitments.
• Requires awareness of audit and compliance related issues.
• Contributes to formulation of strategies for apps support and other functional areas.
• Champion stability initiatives to enable application high availability for Business-As-Usual which includes better monitoring, failover and resiliency
• Ability to handle incidents, problems and change at a global enterprise level. Calm and analytical when faced with major incidents on critical systems.
• Responsible for delivery of end results and shares responsibility for budget management which directly impacts the Supply chain Area; Accountable for resource planning.
• Exhibits sound and comprehensive communication and diplomacy skills to exchange complex information with inherent confidence with operations and technology partners on a regional or global basis.
• Focus on people development, evaluating subordinates' performance and making decisions on pay increases, hiring, terminations and other personnel actions.
• Mentor and coach leaders & individual contributors reporting to this position and play an active role in raising the talent bar across the technology team.