Manager, Supply Chain Analytics & AI Transformation
Job Location:
Miramar, FL - USA
Yearly Salary:
USD 138000 - 143750
Posted:
7 September 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline:
18 January 2027
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
What You Need To Know:
Shape a remarkable future with us. Build a career working for an industry leader that truly invests in their people and equips them with leading technology continuous learning and the ability to bring their best selves to work. As the preeminent wine and spirits distributor Southern Glazers isnt just one of Forbes Top Private Companies; its a family-owned business with deep roots dating back to 1933.
Southern Glazers is proud of its well-earned positive reputation continually achieving accolades for our outstanding workplace culture. We take pride in creating a culture where our people are valued supported and provided opportunities for growth and belonging.
As a full-time employee you can choose from a wide-ranging menu of our Top Shelf Benefits including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage dental and vision plans tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts disability coverage life insurance plans and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition assistance a wellness program parental leave vacation accrual paid sick leave and more.
By joining Southern Glazers you would be part of a team that values excellence innovation and community. This is more than just a job its an opportunity to build the future of beverage distribution and grow with a company that truly cares about its people.
Southern Glazers offers a competitive compensation package with expected first year total earnings of $50 / year including determining a final offer the company will evaluate a specific candidates education skills and experience and will make an offer appropriately.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship now or in the future.
Overview:
The Manager SCM Analytics Reporting & AI leads a team of five analytics and AI professionals responsible for delivering reliable reporting actionable insights automation and AI-enabled solutions across the end-to-end supply chain.
This role sets priorities establishes governance and quality standards reviews solution design and outcomes removes delivery barriers and ensures the teams work aligns with business objectives. The manager connects Supply Chain functions with Commercial IT Finance and other partners to translate business needs into scalable and maintainable analytics and AI capabilities.
The successful candidate brings proven experience leading reporting and AI implementations and can provide clear examples of measurable process optimization such as reducing manual effort improving reporting cycle time increasing data quality simplifying workflows strengthening controls or accelerating decisions. The role requires technical credibility but is primarily accountable for leadership portfolio management governance stakeholder alignment and sustainable delivery rather than personally developing every solution.
Key areas of focus may include S&OP integration network and inventory optimization slow-moving inventory replenishment logistics nationwide distribution performance reporting workflow automation and responsible use of AI agents.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Lead coach and develop a team of five analytics and AI professionals; establish clear roles goals development plans delivery expectations and accountability for results.
- Own the SCM analytics reporting automation and AI portfolio; evaluate requests establish priorities balance team capacity manage dependencies and communicate commitments and trade-offs.
- Translate supply chain and cross-functional business needs into clear problem statements requirements success measures and delivery roadmaps.
- Provide leadership oversight for the design implementation adoption maintenance and enhancement of reporting analytics automation AI/ML models and intelligent agents.
- Review solution approaches business logic data sources controls testing evidence documentation and production readiness before deployment or material changes.
- Establish and enforce governance standards for data quality metric definitions access security responsible AI model monitoring change control documentation and ongoing ownership.
- Ensure reporting and AI solutions are accurate timely scalable supportable and aligned with enterprise architecture and technology standards.
- Monitor solution performance adoption and business value; direct corrective action maintenance retraining enhancement or retirement when solutions no longer meet business needs.
Additional Primary Responsibilities
- Identify and sponsor process-optimization opportunities across Inventory Forecasting Sales Logistics Procurement and Finance using analytics automation and AI where they provide clear business value.
- Develop and present before-and-after examples of process improvement using measurable outcomes such as hours of manual effort removed cycle-time reduction fewer handoffs or errors improved data quality stronger controls increased adoption or faster decision-making.
- Partner with Supply Chain leaders and functional managers to define performance measures interpret results identify risks and opportunities and support strategic decisions.
- Act as the primary liaison among Supply Chain Commercial IT Finance and other partner teams; align ownership resolve dependencies and reduce duplication across initiatives.
- Promote reusable data products standardized reporting common definitions and repeatable delivery practices across markets regions and functions.
- Provide executives with concise accurate and decision-ready information regarding supply chain performance initiative status risks benefits and recommended actions.
- Manage multiple concurrent initiatives while maintaining transparency regarding scope schedules risks decisions resource needs and expected business value.
- Ensure the team follows applicable sourcing purchasing corporate business-partner data security and technology policies.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Supply Chain Management Analytics Data Science Information Systems Finance Engineering or a related field; masters degree preferred.
- At least 5 years of progressive experience in analytics business intelligence reporting data products automation or AI including demonstrated leadership of people projects or a technical delivery team.
- Proven experience leading reporting and AI implementations from business need through adoption governance maintenance and measurable value realization.
- Demonstrated success optimizing business processes. Candidates must be prepared to explain specific before-and-after examples their leadership role the approach used stakeholder involvement controls introduced and measurable results.
- Experience managing and developing analytics reporting business intelligence data science automation or AI professionals.
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize a portfolio of requests allocate team capacity manage competing deadlines and communicate trade-offs to senior stakeholders.
- Strong knowledge of reporting and visualization practices metric governance data quality user adoption and solution lifecycle management.
- Working knowledge of AI/ML and AI-agent lifecycles including use-case selection data readiness validation deployment monitoring risk management maintenance and responsible AI practices.
- Ability to review and challenge technical designs and analytical methods without serving as the primary developer for every deliverable.
- Experience with enterprise analytics and AI platforms such as Databricks Tableau Power BI SAP BusinessObjects Azure OpenAI Azure ML AWS SageMaker or comparable platforms.
- Working knowledge of SQL Python APIs automation data modeling and cloud data platforms sufficient to guide the team assess feasibility review work and communicate with technical partners.
- Advanced understanding of Excel Power Query Power Automate SharePoint workflows or comparable productivity and workflow tools.
- Supply chain experience in inventory forecasting replenishment logistics procurement network planning S&OP or distribution is strongly preferred.
- Exceptional communication executive presentation stakeholder management problem-solving and change-leadership skills.
- Demonstrated commitment to documentation controls accuracy timeliness professionalism and continuous improvement.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience leading analytics or AI work across multiple supply chain functions markets regions or enterprise partner groups.
- Experience establishing reporting governance responsible AI controls intake and prioritization practices or production-support standards.
- Experience quantifying business value from analytics automation reporting modernization or AI implementation.
Physical Demands:
- Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding using a computer (e.g. keyboard mouse and monitor) or adding machine.
- Physical demands with activity or condition may occasionally include walking bending reaching standing and stooping.
- May require occasional lifting/lowering pushing carrying or pulling up to 20lbs.
EEO Statement
Southern Glazers Wine and Spirits an Affirmative Action/EEO employer prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training. SGWS complies with all federal state and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicants arrest and/or criminal conviction records. Southern Glazers Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience knowledge skills abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazers Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazers pay bands or ranges.
Required Experience:
Manager