Product Manager, Connected Supply Chain

Overview: Product Manager, Connected Supply Chain ABOUT THE MARKETING STORE AND HAVI The Marketing Store is a global customer engagement agency that brings people and brands closer together. Our community of creators, thinkers, inventors, and doers deliver award-winning work and products that reach over 110 million customers every single day. Our parent company, HAVI, is a global, privately held company that delivers expertise and experience across analytics, packaging, sourcing, supply chain and logistics. They offer data-based insights and services that combine a strategic, long-term view with an unmatched commitment to execution. WHAT’S IN STORE FOR 2022: GROWTH, OPPORTUNITY, EVOLUTION It’s an exciting time to join our business as we commence integration of The Marketing Store and HAVI Sourcing business operations. Alongside award-winning promotional agency services, The Marketing Store delivers global category management services to our biggest client - McDonald’s. More specifically to the McDonald’s Happy Meal product business. HAVI Sourcing provides similar category management services to McDonald’s, among other clients, for consumer-facing packaging, uniforms and health and safety requirements. To maximize numerous sourcing-related opportunities, grow our business and evolve our organizational efficiency, we are integrating our sourcing capabilities and activities into one entity. This enables us to align our skills and expertise, unlock the potential in our shared talent, provide access to a wider range of ca Responsibilities: ROLE OVERVIEW The Product Manager, Connected Supply Chain will play a critical role, alongside team members from Product Development and RFID Engineering. The Product Management role will design the supply network of RFID label within the tag at source program. Additionally, the role will ensure the feasibility of the digital supply chain use cases for commercialization, which includes bridging the RFID application at the corrugate manufacturers to the pack-and-fill operations at the finished goods converters. As a part of the supply and network strategy, the role will identify and work to build capabilities at network partners, identify development paths required to commercialize the use cases, identify risks and potential mitigations to launch, and develop commercial plan/requirements to implement. Additionally, this role will work to develop category knowledge on the RFID value chain to incorporate into the connected supply chain network strategy. This will involve understanding RFID volume/capacity requirements, identifying mechanisms to assure supply of RFID labels. Responsibilities: Collaborate with customer digital supply chain team on strategic vision and desired commercial impact Build implementation roadmaps for customer-prioritized use cases Design network of corrugate suppliers and converters, aggregating data on supplier locations, target volumes, and various manufactured corrugate solutions Map out value chain and create supply chain strategy for RFID labels (inlay, labels, converters, locations, etc.) Develop commercial plan/requirements to implement (capex, timing, solutions, etc.) Evaluate needed corrugate and RFID product capacity and contingency planning to exceed Assured Supply goals Evaluate the project feasibility and key drivers of project success, from an implementation and technical standpoint Propose commercial plans and investments for strategic supplier partners Desired Skills & Experience: SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE 5+ years’ experience in digital supply chain, digital manufacturing or a related field Experience in designing and delivering technology use cases in a supply chain environment Experience in strategy development for scalable applications Understanding of industrial manufacturing processes (packaging/food/corrugate industry a plus) Very strong critical thinking capabilities Strong analytical capabilities Highly collaborative 30% to 40% travel Benefits: TOTAL REWARDS Our total rewards philosophy integrates programs for compensation, benefits, recognition, learning and development, corporate culture, corporate citizenship and work-life balance. While individual program components may differ by country, some things remain constant: our commitment to rewarding results opportunities to work with talented and driven individuals at every level of our company who respect each other, treat each other fairly and hold one another accountable for our customers’—and our company’s—success There's more ... inclusive employee resource groups generous medical, dental, vision and other great benefits paid parental and medical leave programs 401(k) with a company match component and profit sharing 19 days of paid time off plus 10 company holidays flexibility - remote work and summer Fridays work-from-home stipend tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment assistance