
Senior Manager – Digital Business Transformation – Supply Chain
General Motors
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Warren • Missouri • United States
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About the role
- A Senior Manager – Digital Business Transformation – Supply Chain helps GPSC identify, evaluate, and implement new ideas, applications, or processes.
- This includes engagement across all GPSC functional areas, and significant cross functional interactions with GM IT.
- They use data, research, creativity, and analytical skills to find solutions to complex problems and generate value for customers and stakeholders.
- Lead and support cross-functional, innovation projects to enhance capabilities and efficiencies across GPSC
- Provide a timely response to leadership requests and gather requirements/data from varied global stakeholders
- Support informal reporting and data analytics, like key performance metrics and ad hoc requests
- Stay abreast of emerging market trends, technological advancements, and industry developments.
- Identify opportunities for innovation within the organization.
- Assess the feasibility, potential risks, and impact of new ideas, analyze data, and evaluate the viability of proposed innovations.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, collaborate to drive innovation initiatives, and ensure alignment with business goals.
- Consider long-term implications and align innovation efforts with overall business strategy.
- Apply critical thinking and creative problem-solving techniques. Explore alternative solutions and recommend the most effective approaches.
- Implement innovations through project management and testing, initiatives.
- Stay curious and continuously learn about new methodologies, tools, and best practices related to innovation. Adapt to changing environments and technologies.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in a business or technical discipline
- 5+ years of relevant work experience in Supply Chain or Logistics (any internship or co-op experience will not be considered)
- Experience interacting with business partners and managing expectations
- Strong strategic agility to connect ideas end-to-end and innovate solutions
- Ability to facilitate meetings with strong presentation skills
- Self-starter with the ability to influence others in a direct and indirect organizational structure, and across multiple physical locations
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to communicate complex concepts in simple, visual terms suitable to a wide cross-section of audiences (data storytelling)
- High-level of analytical ability where problems are unusual and difficult
- Well-developed organizational skills including the ability to prioritize, manage multiple projects simultaneously, and meet deadlines
- Proactively manage and communicate project status, progress on deliverables and risks/issues to stakeholders and leadership
- Excellent knowledge of MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint
Benefits
- From day one, we're looking out for your well-being–at work and at home–so you can focus on realizing your ambitions.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data analyticsproject managementinnovation implementationcritical thinkingproblem-solvingstrategic agilitydata storytellingkey performance metricsfeasibility analysisrisk assessment
Soft Skills
communication skillspresentation skillsorganizational skillsinfluencing skillscross-functional collaborationcreativityself-startercuriosityadaptabilitymeeting facilitation