Senior Supply Chain Consultant (Contract Opportunities Only)

Job Location: United States, Remote **

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As a critical element of our Global Operational Excellence practice, Centric is expanding to leverage our Supply Chain experience to better affect and improve our client’s planning, inventory management, and production operations, as well as lead them through a digital transformation of their entire supply chain.

We utilize a tailored, holistic approach to drive results for our clients that balance efficiency, responsiveness, and resilience. Our practice is experiencing new growth and demand, and we need to add exceptional talent and proven ability to the team. **

We are currently looking for Senior Supply Chain Consultants who can help us realize dramatic results and unmatched experiences for our clients.**

In this role you will:

• Lead and support project engagements around process improvement/operational excellence focused primarily on the supply chain function of a client’s business
• Understand the client's organization and their specific business issues to define/present solutions to drive value and deliver results to the client
• Identify and implement improvements and process excellence programs across the various aspects of people, process, information (including metrics), and technology
• Provide business process knowledge/best practices to our clients and Centric partners
• Interview key stakeholders to establish historical constraints and develop success criteria
• Collect and analyze data as well as gather and document client requirements
• Analyze business processes/data to develop recommendations
• Develop process definitions and documentation
• Lead process mapping workshops
• Coach and/or educate the team on BPI (Business Process Improvement)/BPM (Business Process Modeling) best practices
• Tackle complex problems and ability to come up with out-of-the-box ideas to find solutions
• Support the client in achieving sustainable performance and/or improvements
• Identify opportunities to provide or create additional client value
• Effectively manage and develop trusted relationships with client sponsors and partners
• Create and present executive-level reports, detailed updates, and final project readout presentations
• Help support new business efforts through proposal builds, project estimates, SOWs (Statements of Work)
• Help build practice management materials to support internal education and business development

A successful candidate will have the following characteristics:

• Well-versed in process excellence, passionate about clients, dedicated to delivering high-quality solutions, and a willingness to travel up to 80% of the time across the US (primarily, but not limited to, Centric locations)
• The ability to lead a project and drive it to completion within a scoped timeline, managing executive-level communications, meetings, and documentation
• Demonstrated flexibility and ability to tailor an approach specifically based on the client’s needs
• Ability to create unmatched experiences for both clients and employees. You should revel in doing the unexpected and extraordinary for others
• Exposure to a variety of industries/markets
• Minimum of eight (8+) years of experience in a variety of supply chain-related roles/projects
• Minimum of four (4) years of experience in a manufacturing environment
• Minimum two (2) years of experience in inventory management and warehouse operations processes
• Hands-on experience with planning and supply chain methodologies
• Comfortable functioning as either an individual contractor or in a team-based role
• Proven problem-solving ability. Clients don’t come to us when the problem is easy. You should enjoy taking on the hard stuff
• Excellent communication skills – both written and verbal. Translating technical concepts into simple terms is an essential skill
• Executive presence and ability to interact with all levels of a client’s organization
• Strong skills in Microsoft Office suite of tools – including PowerPoint, Excel, and Word, as well as Visio to create professional-looking presentations that are convincing, clear, and concise
• Able to use objective and subjective information to drive solutions for complex business issues
• Ability to guide the development of metrics and associated visuals to drive business results
• Able to set priorities, estimate task durations, and establish a personal as well as team workplans and execute them effectively
• Familiarity with ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) and WMS (Warehouse Management System) systems and how they are implemented and used
• The following certifications/experience are strongly preferred:
• Consulting experience is strongly preferred; however, you will be considered if you have strong industry background
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification
• ASCM (Association for Supply Chain Management) SCOR (Supply Chain Operations Reference) model experience
• ASCM CSCP (Certified Supply Chain Professional) certification or other ASCM certification
• Manufacturing leadership experience
• Experience as an instructor for supply chain-related information
• PMP (Project Management Professional) experience or certification

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