Manager Technology, Supply Chain Management

at  The Home Depot Canada

Position Overview:
This position oversees and directs several teams of associates in the development, implementation and ongoing support of Home Depot’s existing and new software applications. Works closely with end-user groups to ensure operational stability and that new applications meet the practical needs of the company.

Job responsibilities

• Owns and manages key functional areas and tracks the progress of multiple projects on the home depot’s Supply chain Management platforms focused on Demand forecasting & Purchase order management.
• Delivery Ownership of Functional projects and technology roadmap projects using agile scrum methodology.
• Drive technology roadmap and direction for our Logistics platform, exhibiting strong strategy, execution, design, and analytics skills.
• Build relationships across core technology teams and business stakeholders to drive business roadmaps and technology roadmaps in parallel.
• Project management and administration that include work plans, projects, resource planning, status reports, and preparing annual budgets.
• Resolves information services problems by analyzing issues, discerning the most appropriate courses of action, providing tactical direction and, when necessary, re-allocating resources.
• Conducts financial analyses to support strategic planning on system purchases, upgrades, and reclamation. Negotiates favourable prices with vendors on software.
• Communicates status of activities with the team, peers, management, and end users.
• Selects, develops, and motivates assigned staff, annual goal setting and reviews of assigned staff

Functional Experience

• 5+ years of Technology leadership experience in any SCM or retail organization.
• Deep working knowledge of Supply Chain Retail industry business processes is strongly preferred.
• Broad working knowledge in SAP as well as experience in the SAP S/4 HANA SCM platform is required.
• Strong knowledge of master data management, standards, and organizations.
• Must be technical, capable of working with development and software engineering teams
• Must have IT Management experience with direct reports.
• Delivery ownership of 2-3 functional projects and technology roadmap projects at a time using agile scrum methodology.
• Project ownership from inception to full production release.
• Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style and leading by example.

Nice to Have / Optional Skills:

• Exposure to SAP F&R, CAR UDF application an asset
• Experience with cloud technologies, Micro services, Devops, SRE, CI/CD, web technologies (e.g., Java, spring, spring boot, angular, JVM etc.) & SOA/distributed applications architectures.
• Experience with project delivery for large, cross-functional projects with large-scale systems of world-class availability, scalability, and performance requirements.
• Experience operating autonomously across multiple teams, demonstrated critical thinking, and thought leadership.
• Experience establishing work relationships across multi-disciplinary teams and multiple partners in different time zones.
• Highly preferred technology leadership experience of applications in any big box retail organization. Software development background is preferred.
• Experience working with senior leaders to drive business decisions.

• Owns and manages key functional areas and tracks the progress of multiple projects on the home depot’s Supply chain Management platforms focused on Demand forecasting & Purchase order management.
• Delivery Ownership of Functional projects and technology roadmap projects using agile scrum methodology.
• Drive technology roadmap and direction for our Logistics platform, exhibiting strong strategy, execution, design, and analytics skills.
• Build relationships across core technology teams and business stakeholders to drive business roadmaps and technology roadmaps in parallel.
• Project management and administration that include work plans, projects, resource planning, status reports, and preparing annual budgets.
• Resolves information services problems by analyzing issues, discerning the most appropriate courses of action, providing tactical direction and, when necessary, re-allocating resources.
• Conducts financial analyses to support strategic planning on system purchases, upgrades, and reclamation. Negotiates favourable prices with vendors on software.
• Communicates status of activities with the team, peers, management, and end users.
• Selects, develops, and motivates assigned staff, annual goal setting and reviews of assigned staf