Senior Director, Supply Chain Systems

Reports to: VP of Business Systems

Location: US Pacific or Mountain Time Zones

Overview: As Senior Director of IT Supply Chain Systems you will act as the strategic technology partner to the Chief Supply Chain Officer and the Global Supply Chain leadership team. You will own the end-to-end systems architecture platform selection implementation and continuous improvement of all systems that enable  capital planning supply planning procurement risk management order management logistics fulfillment and inventory optimization. This is a high-impact highly visible role that directly influences COGS and OpEx reduction supply continuity & agility customer delivery performance and inventory turns.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with the CSCO and Supply Chain leadership team to translate business strategy into a 3 year supply-chain digital roadmap that delivers measurable financial outcomes.
• Lead architecture discussions for all supply-chain-related systems (Advanced Planning Systems S&OP/IBP Supply Chain Risk Fulfillment Logistics Transportation Supplier Collaboration...
• Drive selection configuration and deployment of modern supply-chain planning and risk platforms (e.g. Kinaxis Blue Yonder Resilinc Riskmethods Everstream etc.).
• Ruthlessly automate manual drudgery across planning procurement logistics and fulfillment and supplier management (RPA low-code AI/ML-driven exception management predictive analytics).
• Deliver proven quantified results in: Improving service levels inventory turns COGS supplier collaboration risk-based decisions planning cycle time and key customer-facing metrics.
• Build and lead a high-performing team of architects analysts and engineers focused exclusively on supply chain outcomes.
• Manage a multi-million-dollar portfolio of projects and operational budget with clear ROI and payback metrics.
• Act as the bridge between Supply Chain and the broader CIO organization.

Qualifications :

• 12 years of progressive IT leadership experience with at least 5 years focused exclusively on vertically integrated supply chain systems in complex build-to-order or high-mix manufacturing environments.
• Proven track record of selecting and implementing modern Advanced Planning Integrated Business Planning Supply Chain Risk Logistics Transportation and Supplier Collaboration platforms that delivered material inventory turns and COGS improvements (must be able to show specific quantified results).
• Deep expertise in supply chain processes: PLM MRP S&OP/IBP demand planning capital planning supply planning sourcing inventory optimization multi-echelon inventory planning (MEIO) constraint-based planning.
• Demonstrated success eliminating manual spreadsheets and swivel-chair processes through automation workflow and AI/ML.
• Strong enterprise architecture experience (TOGAF or similar); ability to design resilient scalable scalable cloud-first architectures (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Hands-on experience with best-of-breed planning and risk tools.
• Experience in vertically-integrated manufacturing of complex high-value long-lead-time products (semiconductor analytical instruments medical devices etc.).
• Strong financial acumen; comfortable building business cases and presenting to C-level.
• Bachelors degree in Engineering Supply Chain Computer Science or related field; Masters/MBA strongly preferred.

Preferred Skills

• Certifications: APICS CPIM/CSCP Kinaxis Blue Yonder or similar
• Experience with GenAI/LLM use cases in supply chain (scenario simulation risk narrative generation automated supplier communications)
• Prior success in companies undergoing rapid transformation

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 gender-related 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 non-discrimination 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.

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Based on our experience we anticipate that the application deadline will be 02/09/2026 (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.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time