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Senior Manager, Digital Supply Chain

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copeland logoCopeland · St. Louis, MO
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We are a global climate technologies company engineered for sustainability. We create sustainable and efficient residential, commercial and industrial spaces through HVACR technologies. We protect temperature-sensitive goods throughout the cold chain. And we bring comfort to people globally. Best-in-class engineering, design and manufacturing combined with category-leading brands in compression, controls, software and monitoring solutions result in next-generation climate technology that is built for the needs of the world ahead. Whether you are a professional looking for a career change, an undergraduate student exploring your first opportunity, or recent graduate with an advanced degree, we have opportunities that will allow you to innovate, be challenged and make an impact. Join our team and start your journey today! The Senior Manager, Digital Supply Chain is a strategic, center-led leadership role responsible for designing, piloting, launching, and sustaining the company's next-generation End-to-End Supply Chain Planning system (Oracle) across a global network of Business Units (BUs) and their associated manufacturing sites. This role serves as the primary business owner for the planning-system transformation-defining success criteria, aligning global stakeholders, championing standardized processes, and ensuring the platform delivers meaningful value to operations, planning, customer service, procurement, and executive leadership. The ideal candidate combines deep system-implementation expertise with hands-on supply chain planning experience, strong cross-functional influence, and exceptional ability to translate complexity into clear business outcomes. They must exercise decisive judgment, quantify risk, communicate confidently with senior leaders, and establish boundaries that protect project integrity and long-term sustainability. This role is central to elevating our enterprise planning maturity. The standards, data structures, and planning processes developed through this Oracle transformation directly enable stronger S&OE (0-13 weeks) and SIOP (3-18 months) performance across the company. As a center-led leader, the Senior Manager ensures that the E2E planning system becomes the backbone of our short-term execution and long-term planning cycles-improving visibility, decision quality, risk identification, and cross-functional alignment enterprise-wide. As the Senior Manager, Digital Supply Chain, you will focus on: Global System Ownership & Transformation Leadership Lead the end-to-end implementation of the new Oracle Supply Chain Planning platform, covering Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Capacity Planning, and Scenario Modeling. Serve as the business lead for the initiative; define business requirements, future-state processes, success criteria, milestones, and guardrails. Partner deeply with IT as the primary business counterpart to ensure functional design aligns with operational needs across all BUs. Oversee pilots, phased rollouts, validation cycles, and global adoption models ensuring consistent execution across regions. Cross-BU Integration & Standardization Develop and drive standard global planning workflows, data structures, and governance models-enabling all BUs to operate under a unified planning process regardless of differing ERPs, MRPs, or legacy practices. Establish a scalable sustainability model for long-term system maintenance, enhancements, and training. Ensure harmonized planning hierarchies, item attributes, calendars, and key planning parameters across all sites. Stakeholder Alignment & Change Leadership Translate complex technical and planning concepts into clear, concise messages for business leaders. Facilitate workshops with functional groups (BU Planning Leads, IT, Operations, Customer Service, Finance, Procurement). Lead organizational-change efforts including communication, role clarity, training, and process readiness. Advocate for disciplined decision-making; establish "rules of engagement" and hold stakeholders accountable. Risk Management & Business Accountability Identify, quantify, and communicate project risks and impacts transparently to leadership. Recommend mitigation paths grounded in data, process rigor, and business realities. Recognize when to escalate issues and possess the fortitude to challenge decisions that jeopardize system integrity or sustainability. Digital Supply Chain Capability Development Develop long-term digital capabilities including master data governance, KPI dashboards, predictive analytics, and workflow automation. Partner with the Director of Supply Chain Planning to integrate system outputs into S&OE, SIOP, and strategic planning rhythms. Strengthen S&OE and SIOP Through Digital Planning Foundations Build planning-system standards, governance structures, and E2E data flows that directly enhance S&OE and SIOP outcomes across all BUs. Ensure that short-term execution metrics (RDSL/PDSL,


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