Principal Supply Chain Data Excellence
On-siteSeattle, Washington, United States
Job Summary
Define and own the multi-year Supply Chain Digital Excellence strategy, roadmap, and operating rhythm that improve trust, consistency, usability, and accountability across planning, sourcing, logistics, fulfillment, product, finance-adjacent reporting, and regional processes. Set functional standards for critical data elements, ownership expectations, quality dimensions, business rules, validation logic, and stewardship routines. Lead senior-level governance reviews that move data quality work from reactive issue management to proactive risk reduction, root-cause elimination, and measurable business outcomes. Represent Supply Chain in enterprise data governance forums to ensure priorities, tradeoffs, and data risks are clearly articulated and escalated. Map how data is created, transformed, consumed, and governed across priority processes, identifying conflicting definitions, duplicate capture, manual workarounds, and integration opportunities. Partner with IT and Data & Analytics to align requirements across systems and platforms, ensuring solutions are anchored in clear data standards. Serve as the senior Supply Chain partner for initiatives where data quality, lineage, and adoption are critical to business outcomes. Lead adoption of new data standards, quality routines, and governance ways of working across business teams and regions. Develop training materials, process documentation, data dictionaries, and stewardship playbooks to build long-term capability and accountability. Coach subject matter experts, business analysts, and data stewards on data quality practices, root-cause thinking, and continuous improvement methods.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or related field
- 10+ years of experience leading supply chain transformation, digital enablement, data strategy, analytics, systems, data governance, operational excellence, or related enterprise initiatives within complex organizations
- Recognized enterprise-level subject matter expert with demonstrated success defining strategy, operating models, governance frameworks, standards, roadmaps, and scalable capabilities that drive measurable business value
- Deep understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes, data domains, decision points, and system ecosystems across product, planning, sourcing, order management, logistics, warehousing, quality, fulfillment, and performance management
- Proven ability to lead large-scale, cross-functional transformation through influence, align senior stakeholders, frame executive-level decisions, resolve ambiguity, and drive outcomes across global or matrixed teams without direct authority
- Demonstrated success translating business strategy into critical data elements, data definitions, quality standards, governance models, stewardship routines, business requirements, acceptance criteria, testing approaches, adoption plans, and performance measures
- Expertise identifying root causes of data quality issues, defining prevention controls, improving data lineage and traceability, and operationalizing standards across business processes, systems, reports, and analytics products
- Strong knowledge of enterprise supply chain platforms and technologies, including ERP, planning, transportation, warehouse, product lifecycle management, analytics, and related systems such as Infor M3, SAP, Oracle, Kinaxis, Blue Yonder, or comparable platforms
- Exceptional strategic thinking, problem-solving, prioritization, and decision-making capabilities with the ability to anticipate future business needs, data risks, system dependencies, and scalability requirements
- Outstanding executive communication, facilitation, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to translate complex data, systems, and technical concepts into clear business impacts, recommendations, decisions, and actions
- Proven ability to establish enterprise standards and best practices while mentoring others, developing organizational capability, and leading sustainable change through influence
- Demonstrated commitment to continuous improvement, innovation, operational excellence, integrity, and Brooks' purpose, culture, values, and commitment to inspiring everyone to run their path
- Travel 5% throughout the year
- Embraces and lives the Brooks values!
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