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Director, Supply Chain Strategy

Dole Packaged Foods
15 hours ago
Full-time
On-site
Thousand Oaks, United States
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Overview
Purpose:
The Director, Supply Chain Strategy leads the strategy, governance, and continuous improvement of core supply chain processes across the North America enterprise. This role owns strategic planning, end-to-end performance analytics, and transformation initiatives that elevate service levels, cost efficiency, working capital, and team effectiveness. The Director drives a culture
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of accountability, collaboration, data-driven decision making, and operational excellence across the supply chain network.
Reporting to the Vice President, Supply Chain & Manufacturing, this leader builds and maintains a high-performing team spanning analytics, strategic planning, information technology enablement, project management, and performance improvement. The Director plays a pivotal enterprise role by connecting cross-functional efforts across Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Logistics, Manufacturing, Sourcing, and Customer Supply Chain to ensure seamless end-to-end supply chain integration.
This role provides flexibility to work in a hybrid environment of home and our Westlake Village, CA office. (Hybrid is defined as 3 times per week in the office).
Responsibilities
Primary Accountabilities:
Strategic Planning
• Set and align the strategic vision for North America Supply Chain with enterprise objectives, long-range targets, and operating model priorities.
• Own the annual strategic planning process, governance model, and cadence across all Supply Chain functions, ensuring cross-functional alignment and executive buy-in.
• Drive scenario planning and decision-support frameworks that enable leadership to evaluate trade-offs in cost, service, and capital investment.
• Translate enterprise strategy into actionable multi-year Supply Chain roadmaps with clear milestones, owners, and success metrics.
• Lead quarterly strategy reviews and executive-level reporting to measure progress and recalibrate priorities.
Project Management
• Establish and manage a robust Supply Chain project management framework to govern, track, and report on key Supply Chain initiatives across functions and geographies.
• Provide oversight and accountability for major cross-functional programs, including operating model implementation, network redesign, system deployments, and transformation projects.
• Define project charters, resource requirements, milestone timelines, risk registers, and benefits realization plans for all strategic Supply Chain programs.
• Coordinate with executive stakeholders and functional leaders to ensure milestones, budgets, and outcomes are achieved on time and within scope.
• Implement structured stage-gate governance processes that create rigor, transparency, and predictable delivery across the project portfolio.
Analytics & Performance Management
• Oversee the design and execution of advanced analytics, dashboards, and performance scorecards that drive improvement in service levels, inventory turns, transportation cost, manufacturing run efficiency, and customer fill rates.
• Champion data standards, central system governance, and a single source of truth across the supply chain data ecosystem.
• Build and maintain a comprehensive Supply Chain KPI framework; lead monthly and quarterly performance reviews with leadership and functional teams.
• Leverage predictive analytics and demand signals to proactively identify supply risk, capacity constraints, and service failure points before they occur.
• Coach functional teams on data literacy, analytical tools, and insights-driven decision making to elevate the overall analytics capability of the organization.
Information Technology
• Partner with IT and Digital to modernize supply chain data platforms, planning tools, and execution systems to enable real-time visibility and integrated decision support.
• Lead the supply chain technology roadmap, including ERP enhancements and AI application.
• Define business requirements and serve as the Supply Chain business owner for major tec

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