Director, Distribution Network Simulation

About Cencora Our team members are at the heart of everything we do. At Cencora, we are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures, and every person here is essential to us being able to deliver on that purpose. If you want to make a difference at the center of health, come join our innovative company and help us improve the lives of people and animals everywhere. Apply today! Job Details As a result of the expansion of our global supply chain capability we have an exciting new opportunity for a Director, Distribution Network Simulation. In this role you will resolve Distribution Center (DC) throughput and capacity gaps and identify scenarios and options to improve efficiencies in the DC network. You will play a key role in leading the strategy, governance, development, and adoption of simulation capabilities across the global supply chain. The role uses discrete-event simulation, operational analytics, and scenario modeling to help leaders make high-confidence decisions related to distribution center flow, labor, throughput, capacity, service, automation, resilience, and capital investment. You will be accountable for building a scalable simulation capability, managing a global portfolio of user cases, establishing modeling and validation standards, developing simulation talent, and ensuring that simulation outputs translate into implemented operational improvements and measurable business value. The role partners closely with Operations, Engineering, Technology, Finance, Continuous Improvement, Data and Analytics, Transportation, Commercial, and regional supply chain leaders. This role reports directly to the Global Vice President of Network Modeling. PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Strategy and Capability Leadership Develop a three- to five-year roadmap for building and scaling the Simulation capability within Cencora. Define where simulation should be embedded in capacity planning, facility design, automation evaluation, business cases, operational improvement, and the business planning cycle. Establish the global operating model, service offering, intake criteria, engagement model, and decision rights for simulation. Represent simulation as the capability subject matter expert in executive, portfolio, and investment discussions. Identify opportunities to convert one-time models into reusable decision-support capabilities. Develop simulation approaches ranging from rapid decision-support models to enterprise-scale digital representations, ensuring the appropriate level of complexity for each business problem. Portfolio, Intake, and Prioritization Own the simulation project portfolio across regions and business units. Translate business challenges into structured simulation use cases, objectives, decision questions, scenarios, success criteria, and implementation requirements. Prioritize initiatives based on business value, urgency, strategic alignment, feasibility, data readiness, decision timing, and available capacity. Manage demand, resources, external support, project sequencing, risks, and dependencies. Maintain visibility into delivery status, decisions enabled, benefits identified, and benefits realized. Modeling Excellence and Governance Establish global standards for model architecture, development, verification, validation, documentation, review, reuse, and lifecycle management. Define model acceptance criteria, confidence levels, sensitivity requirements, and stakeholder sign-offs. Ensure models accurately represent operational constraints, process variability, equipment behavior, labor rules, inventory flows, service requirements, and business assumptions. Implement peer-review and quality-assurance practices appropriate to the risk and materiality of each decision. Maintain a governed inventory of simulation models, components, assumptions, data sources, and reusable templates. Identify operational bottlenecks, system constraints, and resource limitations, providing recommendations to improv…

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