Supply Chain Optimization Manager

• Influence strategic supply chain decisions across a global organisation.
• Work closely with senior supply chain leaders and decision-makers across multiple regions.
• Lead impactful network optimisation projects that drive measurable business value.
• Help shape the future of optimisation, analytics and automation capabilities.
• Join a collaborative, innovative team focused on continuous improvement and operational excellence.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced optimisation professional who enjoys combining technical modelling expertise with commercial insight and stakeholder influence to solve complex supply chain challenges at scale.

• Analyze high-volume, complex data from multiple sources, using advanced tools and techniques to generate meaningful insights.
• Develop and deliver sophisticated visualizations, dashboards, and reports that translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for business stakeholders.
• Present findings and recommendations, simplifying complex analyses to provide clear and actionable insights that support business objectives.
• Partner with cross-functional teams at all levels to standardize data analysis processes and improve data capture practices.
• Use advanced analytics and machine learning techniques to perform deep-dive analysis and generate forward-looking insights.
• Identify opportunities for digital transformation and develop innovative solutions to improve data capture, visualization, and reporting processes.
• Ensure the accuracy, consistency, and quality of data by working closely with internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide strategic guidance to senior leadership, leveraging data insights to drive business growth, enhance decision-making, and support long-term success.
• Build, maintain and enhance supply chain network optimization models using specialist optimisation software to evaluate strategic and operational scenarios.
• Analyse complex data sets and run multiple model scenarios, adjusting key parameters to assess network performance, cost, service and capacity impacts.
• Present model outputs, recommendations and business cases to senior stakeholders, including Supply Chain Directors, Country Managers and VP-level leaders, translating technical findings into clear business insights.
• Develop compelling presentations and reports that support recommendations with robust data analysis and enable informed decision-making.
• Identify opportunities to improve modelling methodologies, automation, reporting capabilities and optimisation processes through innovative approaches and new technologies.

Location: Flexible across Europe

Type: Full-time, Permanent

As a Supply Chain Optimization Manager, you will play a critical role in shaping strategic supply chain decisions through advanced network optimization modelling and analytics. Working within a highly technical team, you will develop and maintain optimization models that evaluate complex supply chain scenarios, identify cost and service improvement opportunities, and support evidence-based decision making across the business.

Working closely with senior stakeholders across Supply Chain, you will translate sophisticated modelling outputs into clear, actionable recommendations. This role combines deep analytical expertise with strong business partnering capability, requiring someone who can confidently communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

You will also drive continuous improvement across modelling approaches, automation, and analytical capabilities, helping the organisation identify smarter, more innovative ways to optimise its network and improve performance.

Remote TypeHybrid RemoteSkills to succeed in the roleAdaptability, Critical Thinking, Data Analytics, Data Visualization, Empathy, Experimentation, Microsoft Power Business Intelligence (PBI), Python (Programming Language), Regression Analysis, R Programming, SQL Tools, Tableau (Software), Taking Ownership, Teamwork, Understand Customers

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we are committed to developing a diverse workforce in which everyone is treated fairly, with respect, and has the opportunity to contribute to business success while realizing his or her potential. This means harnessing the unique skills and experience that each individual brings and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class.

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