IT Manager – Supply Chain Engineering
On-siteChennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Job Summary
Provide people leadership for Supply Chain Engineering team members through coaching, mentoring, and performance support. Manage day-to-day delivery execution, prioritizing risks, dependencies, and stakeholder alignment across distributed teams. Improve delivery discipline via structured planning, action tracking, and escalation management while driving adoption of reusable practices, automation, and engineering governance. Track delivery health using metrics such as progress visibility, quality signals, and predictability to ensure effective execution. Partner with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to strengthen engineering maturity and reduce manual effort. Support onboarding and capability building as the team scales across locations.
Required Qualifications
- 12+ years of experience in IT / software engineering, application delivery, or technology management roles
- Proven experience managing engineering, development, QA, or application delivery teams
- Strong people management experience, including coaching, team development, performance support, and stakeholder communication
- Strong delivery management experience across application development, QA, platform, or enterprise technology teams
- Good understanding of SDLC, Agile delivery, QA practices, release management, and engineering governance
- Ability to manage distributed teams and drive accountability across locations
- Strong experience managing priorities, risks, blockers, dependencies, and escalations
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, facilitation, and follow-through skills
- Ability to work with global teams, technology specialists, product partners, and engineering stakeholders
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in Supply Chain / Retail technology environments
- Experience improving engineering maturity, delivery discipline, QA automation, release readiness, or engineering governance
- Exposure to automation, DevOps / CI-CD, observability, engineering metrics, or productivity improvement initiatives
- Experience working with cross-functional teams across engineering, QA, support, product, business, and partner ecosystems
- Exposure to AI-assisted engineering, engineering productivity tools, or automation-led improvement initiatives
- Experience building repeatable delivery practices, playbooks, dashboards, or team operating rhythms
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