About Our Client

Our client is a global Digital Product Engineering and Technology Services company that is undergoing significant expansion in key markets. The company focuses on building complex digital solutions and experiences for its customers. Our client has demonstrated robust, reliable growth, crossing the $1 billion revenue mark, and is targeting ambitious long-term expansion. The work culture is highly collaborative and results-oriented, with an emphasis on agility and direct involvement from leadership.

The Opportunity

This is a newly created, high-visibility Director role focused on building, shaping, and growing a new Supply Chain Center of Excellence (CoE). The role is centered on client-facing problem solving, strategic advisory, and influencing complex enterprise engagements, with approximately 70% of the work directly involving clients. The Director will be a hybrid leader—senior and strategic, yet hands-on—leading the design and execution of AI-led supply chain solutions and guiding clients from vision to measurable value realization.

What You Will Do

• Lead the design and execution of AI-led supply chain solutions across planning, procurement, manufacturing, and distribution.
• Partner with clients to assess their supply chain maturity, pain points, and AI-readiness, then define prioritized strategic roadmaps.
• Translate complex business needs into technical solutions in collaboration with internal data science and engineering teams.
• Activate the go-to-market strategy for integrated supply chain solutions and establish intellectual property, including thought leadership pieces.
• Shape and execute client organizational change initiatives, including training and adoption strategies, to ensure the realization of business value.
• Establish strategic partnerships with breakthrough technology vendors to enhance solution credibility and reach.
• Serve as a trusted mentor within the Supply Chain CoE, imparting domain expertise and commercial insights.

Who You Are

• A "hybrid" leader with a sweet spot of 15–23 years of total experience, including a minimum of 13 years in supply chain.
• Mandatory experience in IT services and consulting, demonstrated through a stable career progression (roughly 3+ years per role).
• Deep end-to-end Supply Chain mastery across all major domains: planning, procurement, manufacturing, distribution, and operations.
• Experience across at least three industry verticals (e.g., CPG, retail, manufacturing, BFSI, high-tech).
• Senior and strategic, yet comfortable being hands-on and willing to be on the warehouse/shop floor when needed.
• Proven ability to work with both technical (AI, data science, product) and business teams.
• Experienced in presenting to clients and delivering cross-functional analytics and insights.

The Ideal Candidate is a highly experienced, U.S.-based leader (15-23 years) with a strong, mandatory background in IT services and supply chain consulting. They must possess deep end-to-end supply chain mastery. Ideally, their career path would include early experience inside a supply-chain-heavy company (like General Mills or Amazon) followed by a successful transition into a top consulting firm (like Accenture, EY, or Deloitte). This "hybrid" leader is senior and strategic, but thrives on being hands-on, comfortable working with both C-level executives and technical/data science teams, and is eager to build and own a new practice

Why Join the Team?

This is a unique opportunity to join an established, stable global organization that is in a major strategic growth phase, particularly expanding the U.S. presence and AI-related business units. You will be one of the founding members of a brand-new Supply Chain Center of Excellence, giving you the freedom to architect, shape, and own a practice area from the ground up. The role offers a competitive compensation package, with a strong base salary plus a 21% bonus. The culture is entrepreneurial and low-bureaucracy, prioritizing learning, innovation, and impact.

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About Naviga Recruiting & Executive Search

Naviga Recruiting & Executive Search is a leading provider of Contingent Workforce Solutions, Executive Search, Leadership and Individual Contributor hiring, empowering businesses to achieve their strategic objectives through expert talent acquisition. Our specialties include sales, marketing, finance/accounting and operations hiring. With a commitment to excellence and a deep understanding of market trends, Naviga Recruiting & Executive Search helps organizations build high-performing teams and navigate complex workforce challenges. Naviga Recruiting & Executive Search specializes in U.S. Hiring for Global Businesses.