Manager, Supply Chain Strategic Initiatives

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.

Position Purpose:

Supply Chain is a key enabler of The Home Depot’s enterprise strategy, enabling the company’s ability to grow and gain market share in any macroeconomic environment. The Supply Chain Strategic Initiatives team supports the development, execution and communication of The Home Depot’s Supply Chain strategy. 

The Manager, Supply Chain Strategic Initiatives serves as a strategic and trusted extension of the Director and VP, providing Supply Chain leadership support across strategy and visibility, communication and execution, and project management. The role enables a high performing, aligned and synchronized organization by ensuring the right priorities, information and decisions are elevated at the right time to drive results. Candidate should be comfortable leading conversations with and drafting presentations for executive leaders within Supply Chain.

Key Responsibilities:

• 40% Project Control – Develops an effective plan for controlling project scope, schedule and cost, and monitors project execution to ensure that the plan is being followed. Creates and effectively coordinates documentation to explain changes or potential changes to the baseline and ensures the approved changes are implemented. Maintains project logs of all submitted changes and their status.

• 30% Project Communications – Develops an effective plan for communicating project information to the project team and to the project stakeholders. Develops written status reports and scorecards and creates/presents project review documents to senior leadership. Collects and documents project issues and manages their timely resolution.

• 10% Project Risk Management – Leads the definition of project risks and the required mitigation approaches. Monitors project activities for the occurrence of risks and takes timely action to escalate or mitigate the risk. Advises project team members and stakeholders of actions required or completed.

• 10% Project Lessons Learned – At the completion of a project or project phase, captures key lessons learned and communicates to peer Project Managers. Effectively applies lessons learned in subsequent projects.

• 10% Project Environment – Shares responsibility with the project leadership for providing a good working environment. Ensures teams are staffed, duties and responsibilities are understood by everyone and that an inclusive environment is maintained.

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• Reports to Director

• This role will have direct reports

• Typically requires interpersonal skills for dealing with sensitive or controversial situations.

• Typically faces situations that are unstructured and require original approaches.

• Typically considers new courses of action within broad policies and medium-term goals when solving problems.

• Typically, once given general assignments, determines priorities and defines what should be done and how to do it.

Travel Requirements:

• Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

Physical Requirements:

• Frequent periods are spent standing or sitting in the same location with some opportunity to move about; occasionally there may be a need to stoop or lift light objects (typically less than 8 pounds).

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

• Under regular pressure to meet deadlines, quotas and/or must frequently deal with difficult issues related to people or situations.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.

• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

• No additional qualifications

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education:

• Previous work experience in top-tier retail/ecommerce, corporate strategy, or professional services (e.g., strategy consulting, investment banking, private equity) supporting retail/ecommerce or consumer-facing business units

• Solid understanding of retail and financial acumen

• Strong communication & presentation skills with the ability to synthesize complex data into clear, actionable insights for stakeholders and leadership

• Proven ability to collaborate effectively in highly cross-functional environments

• Comfort framing and navigating ambiguous business challenges

• Strong interpersonal skills with high degree of professionalism and confidentiality

• High degree of personal drive, initiative, and ownership 

​Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 5

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• Excellent project management skills. Demonstrated ability to perform financial analysis. Ability to ascertain and solve problems. Strong computer skills.

• Strong communication skills.