Director, Supply Chain Architecture

We currently have career opening for a Director, Supply Chain Architecture in Cardinal Health’s Enterprise Architecture team.  The Enterprise Architecture team is a highly engaged team focused on business, data and technology architecture that is passionate about enabling Cardinal Health’s mission.  If you are passionate about digitizing supply chain, then this role may be a good fit for you.

The Director of Supply Chain Architecture drives value to Cardinal Health through their leadership experience, broad supply chain knowledge, thought leadership, and ability to establish and execute a strategy. This role covers end to end supply chain architecture with the primary goal of strategically building efficiency, resiliency, and scalability into our supply chain with a focus on continuous improvement by architecting innovative solutions to provide better service to our customers and suppliers. Along with digitizing supply chain this role is also responsible for exploring new technologies and industry trends and partnering with the business and various solution teams to experiment and drive innovative solutions.

What Enterprise Architecture contributes to Cardinal Health

Information Technology oversees the effective development, delivery, and operation of computing and information services. This function anticipates, plans, and delivers Information Technology solutions and strategies that enable operations and drive business values.

This family defines architectural models, governance, and transition initiatives to coordinate stakeholders and enable business change, with consideration of application, information, technology and security architecture.

 Accountabilities

• Develop and maintain Supply Chain capability model by translating business priorities into key supply chain capabilities

• Develop a roadmap to build prioritized supply chain capabilities across Planning, Procurement, Order Management, Manufacturing, Warehouse Management, Transportation Management and Labor Management

• Design and architect supply chain solutions that support business goals and needs by leveraging existing investments in SAP and Manhattan and recommend relevant technology innovations as appropriate

• Syndicate engineering expertise, design thinking and innovation to design next generation large scale supply chain solutions

• Create prototypes for innovative solutions in emerging technologies like Robotics, Blockchain, IoT, Digital Twins and ML

• Leverage deep supply chain functional and technical skills to serve as a conduit between business processes and technology

• Manages a team of high-impact supply chain architects to develop and maintain technology strategy, vision, architectural roadmaps, reference architectures and engineering implementations

• Partner with business leads and IT solution teams to create and maintain supply chain architecture principles, standards, guidelines, and decision trees around supply chain architecture

• Provide leadership, guidance, consulting to the implementation team to build futuristic supply chain platforms

• Provide strategic guidance to senior leadership on next generation supply chain capabilities by shaping emerging technologies

• Ensure enterprise standards are established and followed while providing consulting on initiatives across multiple projects

• Explore new technologies and industry trends and partner with the business to experiment and drive innovation

• Create and maintain training and educational materials and technical position papers for solution delivery teams

• Support business case development

• Active member of Architecture Review Board

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in supply chain, engineering, computer science, or a related field

• Extensive hands-on experience in designing supply chain solutions using SAP or Manhattan

• Deep knowledge of core supply chain capabilities including Planning, Procurement, Order Management, Manufacturing, Warehouse Management, Transportation Management and Labor Management

• Experience in Supply Chain automation including Robotics, IoT, Goods to Person Picking systems, other touchless supply chain solutions

• Experience defining supply chain technology strategy

• Experience with 3PL distribution model is a plus

• Proven experience with sophisticated large-scale implementations

• Proven experience in establishing mission, vision, and strategies

• Experience with technology risk and debt management

• Experience in Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF, Zachman) is a plus

• Experience in creating development plans, coaching, and managing a diverse team of architects

• Experience with problem cause identification (Fishbone, Root Cause Analysis, Interrelationship Diagram, 5 Whys…)

• Experience with problem solving techniques (Brainstorming, Mind Mapping, Appreciative Inquiry, Lateral Thinking)

What is expected of you and others at this level

• Provides leadership to managers and experienced professional staff may also manage front line supervisors

• Manages an organizational budget

• Develops and implements policies and procedures to achieve organizational goals

• Assists in the development of functional strategy

• Decisions have an extended impact on work processes, outcomes, and customers

• Interacts with internal and/or external leaders, including senior management

• Persuades others into agreement in sensitive situations while maintaining positive relationships

Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.