Job Title:  Manager, Supply Chain Analytics & AI Transformation

What You Need To Know

Shape a remarkable future with us. Build a career working for an industry leader that truly invests in their people – and equips them with leading technology, continuous learning, and the ability to bring their best selves to work. As the preeminent wine and spirits distributor, Southern Glazer’s isn't just one of Forbes’ Top Private Companies; it's a family-owned business with deep roots dating back to 1933.

Southern Glazer’s is proud of its well-earned positive reputation, continually achieving accolades for our outstanding workplace culture. We take pride in creating a culture where our people are valued, supported, and provided opportunities for growth and belonging.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a wide-ranging menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition assistance, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

By joining Southern Glazer’s, you would be part of a team that values excellence, innovation, and community. This is more than just a job – it's an opportunity to build the future of beverage distribution and grow with a company that truly cares about its people.

Southern Glazer’s offers a competitive compensation package with expected first year total earnings of $138,000-143,750 / year including bonus. In determining a final offer, the company will evaluate a specific candidate's education, skills and experience and will make an offer appropriately.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship now or in the future.

Overview

The Manager, Supply Chain Analytics & AI Transformation leads a team of five analytics and AI professionals responsible for delivering reliable reporting, actionable insights, automation, and AI-enabled solutions across the end-to-end supply chain.

This role sets priorities, establishes governance and quality standards, reviews solution design and outcomes, removes delivery barriers, and ensures the team’s work aligns with business objectives. The manager connects Supply Chain functions with Commercial, IT, Finance, and other partners to translate business needs into scalable and maintainable analytics and AI capabilities.

The successful candidate brings proven experience leading reporting and AI implementations and can provide clear examples of measurable process optimization, such as reducing manual effort, improving reporting cycle time, increasing data quality, simplifying workflows, strengthening controls, or accelerating decisions. The role requires technical credibility but is primarily accountable for leadership, portfolio management, governance, stakeholder alignment, and sustainable delivery rather than personally developing every solution.

Key areas of focus may include S&OP integration, network and inventory optimization, slow-moving inventory, replenishment, logistics, nationwide distribution, performance reporting, workflow automation, and responsible use of AI agents.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of five analytics and AI professionals; establish clear roles, goals, development plans, delivery expectations, and accountability for results.
• Own the SCM analytics, reporting, automation, and AI portfolio; evaluate requests, establish priorities, balance team capacity, manage dependencies, and communicate commitments and trade-offs.
• Translate supply chain and cross-functional business needs into clear problem statements, requirements, success measures, and delivery roadmaps.
• Provide leadership oversight for the design, implementation, adoption, maintenance, and enhancement of reporting, analytics, automation, AI/ML models, and intelligent agents.
• Review solution approaches, business logic, data sources, controls, testing evidence, documentation, and production readiness before deployment or material changes.
• Establish and enforce governance standards for data quality, metric definitions, access, security, responsible AI, model monitoring, change control, documentation, and ongoing ownership.
• Ensure reporting and AI solutions are accurate, timely, scalable, supportable, and aligned with enterprise architecture and technology standards.
• Monitor solution performance, adoption, and business value; direct corrective action, maintenance, retraining, enhancement, or retirement when solutions no longer meet business needs.

Additional Responsibilities

• Identify and sponsor process-optimization opportunities across Inventory, Forecasting, Sales, Logistics, Procurement, and Finance, using analytics, automation, and AI where they provide clear business value.
• Develop and present before-and-after examples of process improvement using measurable outcomes such as hours of manual effort removed, cycle-time reduction, fewer handoffs or errors, improved data quality, stronger controls, increased adoption, or faster decision-making.
• Partner with Supply Chain leaders and functional managers to define performance measures, interpret results, identify risks and opportunities, and support strategic decisions.
• Act as the primary liaison among Supply Chain, Commercial, IT, Finance, and other partner teams; align ownership, resolve dependencies, and reduce duplication across initiatives.
• Promote reusable data products, standardized reporting, common definitions, and repeatable delivery practices across markets, regions, and functions.
• Provide executives with concise, accurate, and decision-ready information regarding supply chain performance, initiative status, risks, benefits, and recommended actions.
• Manage multiple concurrent initiatives while maintaining transparency regarding scope, schedules, risks, decisions, resource needs, and expected business value.
• Ensure the team follows applicable sourcing, purchasing, corporate, business-partner, data, security, and technology policies.

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Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Analytics, Data Science, Information Systems, Finance, Engineering, or a related field; master’s degree preferred.
• At least 5 years of progressive experience in analytics, business intelligence, reporting, data products, automation, or AI, including demonstrated leadership of people, projects, or a technical delivery team.
• Proven experience leading reporting and AI implementations from business need through adoption, governance, maintenance, and measurable value realization.
• Demonstrated success optimizing business processes. Candidates must be prepared to explain specific before-and-after examples, their leadership role, the approach used, stakeholder involvement, controls introduced, and measurable results.
• Experience managing and developing analytics, reporting, business intelligence, data science, automation, or AI professionals.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize a portfolio of requests, allocate team capacity, manage competing deadlines, and communicate trade-offs to senior stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of reporting and visualization practices, metric governance, data quality, user adoption, and solution lifecycle management.
• Working knowledge of AI/ML and AI-agent lifecycles, including use-case selection, data readiness, validation, deployment, monitoring, risk management, maintenance, and responsible AI practices.
• Ability to review and challenge technical designs and analytical methods without serving as the primary developer for every deliverable.
• Experience with enterprise analytics and AI platforms such as Databricks, Tableau, Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects, Azure OpenAI, Azure ML, AWS SageMaker, or comparable platforms.
• Working knowledge of SQL, Python, APIs, automation, data modeling, and cloud data platforms sufficient to guide the team, assess feasibility, review work, and communicate with technical partners.
• Advanced understanding of Excel, Power Query, Power Automate, SharePoint workflows, or comparable productivity and workflow tools.
• Supply chain experience in inventory, forecasting, replenishment, logistics, procurement, network planning, S&OP, or distribution is strongly preferred.
• Exceptional communication, executive presentation, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and change-leadership skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to documentation, controls, accuracy, timeliness, professionalism, and continuous improvement.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading analytics or AI work across multiple supply chain functions, markets, regions, or enterprise partner groups.
• Experience establishing reporting governance, responsible AI controls, intake and prioritization practices, or production-support standards.
• Experience quantifying business value from analytics, automation, reporting modernization, or AI implementation.

Physical Demands

• Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or adding machine
• Physical demands with activity or condition may occasionally include walking, bending, reaching, standing, and stooping
• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. SGWS complies with all federal, state and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicant's arrest and/or criminal conviction records. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.

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