At a Glance
As a Sr. Lead - Transformation Manager, you’ll lead complex, end-to-end projects focused on our distribution and logistics transformation in the Americas. You’ll report to the Senior Director of Global Supply Chain Transformation, Distribution & Logistics on the Global Supply Chain team. This role is crucial for supporting strategic initiatives within the region, ensuring seamless collaboration between global and regional On teams and external 3rd party partners. Your efforts will directly contribute to enhancing the scalability, cost-effectiveness, and operational resilience of our global logistics network, supporting On’s continued growth and premium service delivery.
Your Team
You'll be joining the Global Supply Chain Transformation team, a team focused on reshaping our global supply chain to drive scalable growth at On. We are the strategic drivers of change, partnering with stakeholders across the company to implement new standards, best practices, and innovative technologies that will transform how we operate.
Our mission is to lead the charge in operational excellence, from product origin to final delivery. We specialize in implementing large scale network transformations, rolling out innovative processes, and ensuring we have the right capabilities to support our ambitious growth. We are an analytical and proactive team, dedicated to solving complex problems and delivering significant, measurable change.
If you are excited about leading a team to drive tangible, technology-driven improvements across a global network, then come and join us!
Your mission
- Build and execute detailed project plans and trackers, providing operational reporting and visibility for cross-functional strategic projects across the Distribution & Logistics portfolio for the Americas
- Ability to manage multiple projects and strategic priorities at once across different locations within the Americas region.
- Organize and lead regular meetings with diverse stakeholders (supply chain, operations, finance, IT, commercial, etc.) to drive alignment on project goals, timelines, and deliverables
- Ensure meetings are structured to surface key issues, drive consensus, and support timely decision-making across cross-functional teams
- Own the calendar, agendas, and follow-up actions for recurring project touchpoints, ensuring accountability and maintaining momentum throughout the project lifecycle
- Conduct root cause analysis and provide actionable recommendations to leadership for continuous improvement within distribution and logistics operations, translating complex problems into actionable solutions
- Understand and evaluate strategic project dependencies, exercising good judgement on when and how to evaluate risks and recommendations at the relevant level to mitigate risks.
- Partner closely with IT and business resources to develop and automate reporting and support business processes, driving updates to existing reports to meet changing business needs
- Support the creation of regular project updates and steering committee materials, clearly articulating project status and critical path to success
- Participate in business case creation for key strategic initiatives, ensuring all decisions are supported by rigorous analysis
- Partner closely with external business partners (e.g., 3PLs) to build robust and coherent project governance that is integrated into On ways of working and overall project management.
- Establish strong cross-functional relationships with Inventory Management, Inbound/Outbound Logistics, Allocation, Order to Cash, Distribution Center Management, and other functional partners to ensure project success
Your story
- You have 6+ years of experience in a project management, transformation, and/or analytics reporting role, ideally within a high-growth distribution and logistics environment or other relevant experience
- You are adept at managing complexity, making sense of high-quantity, sometimes contradictory information to solve problems effectively, and proactively identifying underlying issues to deliver solutions
- You are comfortable making decisions with input from others, prioritizing work autonomously, and providing thoughtful recommendations even when facing ambiguity
- You optimize work processes, continuously seeking ways to improve efficiency and effectiveness in how things get done, from small tweaks to reengineering, always driving towards scalable improvements
- You navigate uncertainty effectively, operating productively even when the way forward is not entirely clear, and making mindful decisions despite ambiguity, embracing new challenges and learning from both successes and failures
- You demonstrate a self-starter mindset, proactively seeking business optimization and cost savings, and building data-driven business cases to support your recommendations
- You possess strong knowledge of best practices within Project Management and have exposure and experience with ERP systems; knowledge and exposure to WMS, TMS, or OMS systems a bonus