About the Team:

Partner Operations drives Wayfair’s top and bottom line by partnering with our suppliers to set and enable effective commercial and operational strategies. Together we provide cost-efficient, perfect orders at scale to consumers. Partner Operations is at the forefront of building innovative and scalable supply chain solutions that provide a unique, competitive advantage for Wayfair and unlocks value for our supplier partners. By leveraging our proprietary technology, fulfillment and delivery networks and supply chain services, we reduce costs, increase speed of delivery and ensure a reliable consumer experience. We are looking for highly motivated individuals to help expand this business and solve complex problems across operations, logistics and technology to achieve rapid growth.

Being a part of a Vertical team within Partner Operations means you generate energy from being in the center of the action.  As Wayfair’s primary supplier facing operations team, we drive high value engagement within Wayfair’s ever growing supplier base.  The team acts as a chief advisor to our suppliers to drive forecast alignment, demand planning, inventory allocation, and fulfillment strategies.  The team is also highly engaged with International Supply Chain and Asia Logistics teams, where we work to build supply chain efficiencies.  What defines this team across its areas of scope is our passion to make a substantial impact and create win-win strategies for our suppliers and Wayfair.  

What You’ll Do: 

We are seeking highly engaged supply chain leaders who can operate as independent operators and trusted advisors to an entire Wayfair category.  In this role, you will lead a dedicated team to engage our most valuable supplier relationships on ecommerce strategies, demand planning, and transformational supply chain projects.  You will own your category’s operational strategy and work in a highly cross-functional environment to continuously improve performance in an ever changing global environment.  In this role you will have plenty of opportunity to develop as a senior leader, sharpen supply chain skills, and develop a high performing team that is critical toward driving Wayfair’s continued success. 

What You’ll Need:

• Demonstrated ability to identify the most impactful metrics and keep a team focused on these priorities in an environment of competing alternatives
• Demonstrated ability to recruit, develop and monitor teams in an inclusive manner
• Demonstrated ability to communicate with a broad cross-functional audience and influence and persuade members at all levels
• Demonstrated ability to guide team to implement impactful strategies while also pushing forward as a manager-doer against your own priorities
• Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous goals and formulate strategy for a large scale project with multiple interdependencies  
• 8+ years of extensive Supply Chain experience preferred
• Advanced experience with any of the following preferred: SQL, Data Studio, Looker, GBQ, or Excel 
• Supply Chain Consulting experience a plus
• Owned and managed projects with presentations or reports to executive level management preferred
• An MBA or demonstrated experience across multiple business units a plus