Senior Manager, Supply Chain Digital Excellence

Who We Are:
At Brooks, we believe movement is the key to feeling more alive. That’s why we’re driven to create gear and experiences that take people to the place that makes them feel more alive — whether it’s a headspace, a feeling, or a finish line.  Everyone who works at Brooks is propelled by a company culture that sparks excitement, fuels collaboration, inspires creativity, and ignites innovation. Our brand values help bond us together and drive our success:  ·      Runner First We act in the best interest of the runner·       Word is Bond  We do what we say we’ll do ·       Champion Heart We give our all in everything we do·      There is no “I” in RunWe stay generous with our humanity ·       Keep MovingWe find ways to move every day, because joy is kinetic!  We welcome everyone from every walk of life looking to inspire others through the power of movement — because we’re all moving towards something. Let’s run there.   
Your Job:
The Senior Manager, Supply Chain Digital Excellence, will serve as a bridge between business and technology. Acting as a business relationship manager, this role will lead Brooks’ global digital Supply Chain ecosystem. Reporting to the Senior Director of Supply Chain Excellence, this role will collaborate with Information Technology to support stewardship of enterprise data, drive adoption of digital systems, and enable AI and analytics-powered decision-making across planning, execution, distribution, transportation and trade compliance. This role will ensure alignment across information systems, analytics, and planning platforms. Together, your team will modernize Brooks’ Supply Chain planning, execution, and reporting capabilities to deliver visibility, accuracy, agility, and resilience - fully aligned to Brooks’ Run Trail Map (RTM) and Supply Chain Strategic Initiatives. This role will use digital technology to turn Supply Chain data, processes, and relationships into a competitive advantage – faster, more accurate, flexible, smarter, and more resilient.  Your Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership & Vision

• Lead with purpose: Oversee Brooks’ global Supply Chain Digital Transformation, guiding the Supply Chain Systems & Operations (SCSO) team with clarity, accountability, and empowerment.

• Align for impact: Maintain a current-state assessment and regularly translate business strategy into a Digital Supply Chain Roadmap covering systems and data. Identify and implement measurable value, risk, and opportunity drivers within functional and transformational management systems, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities. Drive value creation through automation, data optimization, innovation, and continuous system improvement.

• Bridge business and technology: Act as a trusted partner and translator between Supply Chain, IT, and external partners, ensuring business needs are clearly articulated and solutions deliver expected and measurable value.

• Protect the moat by design: Safeguard Brooks’ competitive advantage by ensuring the resilience, scalability, and cohesiveness of digital supply chain systems. Proactively assess vulnerabilities and mitigate risks.

• Champion collaboration: Partner cross-functionally and with external partners to identify digitalization opportunities across the end-to-end supply chain (Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, Return).

• Execution: Global Supply Chain Digitalization

• Runner First: Ensure Global Supply Chain solutions for planning and execution are optimized, scalable, and reliable to deliver service excellence for Brooks’ multi-region, multi-channel operations.

• Agility in motion: Drive integration of planning data across forecasting, S&OP, and execution to enable one version of truth and faster decisions.

• Champion Heart: Partner with Distribution and Transportation to embed real-time visibility, predictive analytics, and control towers into operations that keep the run alive.

• Deliver what we promise: Oversee functional requirements, user stories, testing, and adoption for digital solutions to ensure measurable business value.

• Execution: Global Business Process Transformation

• Engage: Collaborate with cross-functional Global Supply Chain operations and transformation teams and IT SMEs to identify opportunities for process improvement and optimization in Supply chain processes and solutions

• Be Curious: Analyze existing workflows, identify bottlenecks, and propose enhancements to streamline activities, improve efficiency, reduce transit times, and deliver cost savings.  Streamline processes and structure, especially in Supply chain execution, with the goal to manage by exception.

• Participate: Ensure that the system implementations are supported with clear functional requirements and outcomes, articulating the business processes and required metrics definition.

• Data, Systems & Analytics

• Be accountable for truth in data: Partner with IT Data Governance to establish and enforce global data standards, ensuring master data quality, KPI alignment, and clear ownership across Supply Chain functions.

• Enable fact-based decisions: Oversee Supply Chain functional use of planning and analytics platforms (Kinaxis, Infor Nexus, Maestro, Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, KNIME, Snowflake) to provide trusted insights for operations and strategy.

• Innovate for the customer: Sponsor advanced modeling for network design, transportation optimization, inventory risk, and S&OP, ensuring we balance service, agility, and cost.

• Technology & Innovation

• Keep moving forward: Evaluate, pilot, and scale emerging technologies (AI/ML, RPA, RFID, blockchain, IoT, digital twins) to streamline operations and unlock competitive advantage.

• Courage to disrupt: Develop ROI-driven business cases for digital initiatives and prioritize based on cost-to-serve, agility, sustainability, and resilience.

• One team: Partner with IT to plan, integrate, and upgrade platforms (ERP, OMS, WMS, TMS, Infor Nexus, etc.) into a unified ecosystem that bridges global strategy with local execution.

• Stay curious: Continuously scan the horizon for new digital opportunities that elevate Brooks’ supply chain capabilities.

• Governance & Change Management

• Accountability matters: Develop governance frameworks, ensuring process and system documentation, training repositories, and adoption metrics are consistent and transparent.

• Inspire adoption: Drive change management strategies that empower teams to embrace new systems and processes with confidence.

• Compete as a team: Monitor and measure the adoption and impact of digital initiatives, using KPIs and feedback to refine roadmaps and sustain business impact.

• Culture of community: Animate and grow digital Communities of Practice (CoP) across regions to embed knowledge, enable collaboration, and fuel continuous improvement.

• Team & Talent Development

• There’s no “I” in Run: Manage, coach, and develop the global Supply Chain Systems and Operations (SCSO) team, aligning their objectives and career growth with Brooks’ mission and future needs.

• Build digital confidence: Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and digital fluency across teams to unlock potential at every level.

• Empower through learning: Lead digital upskilling programs, embedding AI/ML and analytics literacy across Supply Chain, and integrate capability development into Brooks’ Supply Chain Academy.

• Champion people: Cultivate inclusion, engagement, and leadership at every level, ensuring Brooks’ values shape how teams deliver, learn, and grow.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Information Systems/Technology, or equivalent combination of experience. Master’s degree (MBA or equivalent) is strongly preferred.
• 10+ years of global supply chain management and/or consulting experience, with at least 5 years in leadership roles managing multi-level teams.
• 5+ years management experience
• Proven record of implementing and scaling supply chain technology platforms (included but not limited to Enterprise Resource Planning, Warehouse Management, Order Management, Planning systems, etc.)
• Strong background in FMCG, footwear/apparel, or consulting with complex multi-region networks.
• Demonstrated success in data governance, BI reporting, and AI/ML applications in supply chain.
• Track record of leading cross-regional, cross-functional digital transformation programs.
• Strong teammate, successful collaborator, ability to influence, motivate and mentor others.
• Demonstrate strong financial and business acumen
• Proven leadership capabilities to supervise a team and lead strategic business objectives with a proven ability to prioritize workload and manage short term and long-range projects.
• Advanced knowledge in BI & analytics tools (Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, KNIME, Snowflake).
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills with C-level and operational leaders.
• Detail oriented.  Strong organizational and time management skills are a must.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to work in a fast paced, changing environment, anticipating and resolving problems in a timely manner.
• Project management expertise (Agile/Hybrid/Waterfall)
• Change agent mindset: ability to inspire adoption of new systems and ways of working.
• Deep alignment with Brooks’ mission, culture, and values.