Description
The Supply Chain Strategy Consultant, Resilience & MAKE Center of Excellence serves as an internal consultant, strategist, and transformation leader for HP's Supply Chain Transformation & Resilience organisation and MAKE COE.
This role is responsible for identifying, shaping, and solving the company's most complex supply chain challenges spanning manufacturing, sourcing, logistics, resilience, geopolitics, trade, network design, and digital transformation.
Operating at the intersection of strategy and execution, this individual provides structured problem-solving leadership across Enterprise Operations, helping business leaders rapidly assess issues, define opportunities, develop recommendations, and drive implementation.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Consulting & Problem Solving
- Serve as an internal consultant to supply chain and business leaders across Personal Systems, Print, and Enterprise Operations.
- Intake, assess, and triage complex strategic and operational challenges requiring cross-functional leadership.
- Structure ambiguous problems into actionable workplans, hypotheses, analyses, and executive recommendations.
- Facilitate fact-based decision making through scenario planning, tradeoff analyses, and business case development.
- Lead executive-level special projects and rapid-response initiatives related to emerging risks, opportunities, and disruptions.
Supply Chain & Resilience Strategy
- Define and advance HP's long-term supply chain resilience and network optimisation strategies.
- Lead assessments related to geographic diversification, manufacturing footprint design, partner ecosystem strategy, tariffs, market access, and geopolitical risk.
- Conduct end-to-end supply chain studies across sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, and customer fulfilment.
- Develop strategic recommendations balancing customer experience, cost, working capital, resilience, and sustainability objectives.
- Support development of HP's future-state manufacturing and supply chain network roadmap.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Manufacturing or Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
- 8+ years of experience in supply chain strategy, operations, manufacturing, management consulting, or transformation, with demonstrated leadership of complex cross-functional initiatives.
- Deep expertise across end-to-end supply chain functions including sourcing, manufacturing, planning, logistics, and resilience.
- Strong understanding of network design, manufacturing strategy, trade policy, tariff impacts, and geopolitical risk.
- Demonstrated success leading enterprise-wide transformation initiatives.
- Advanced analytical and structured problem-solving capabilities.
- Exceptional executive communication and storytelling skills.
- Experience influencing senior leaders and driving alignment across large matrixed organisations.
- MBA or equivalent strategic consulting experience preferred.
Leadership Attributes
- Systems thinker who can connect decisions across the entire supply chain ecosystem.
- Naturally curious with a relentless focus on root-cause problem solving.
- Thrives in ambiguity and rapidly translates uncertainty into action.
- Trusted advisor capable of influencing without direct authority.
- Strong executive presence with the ability to engage leaders at all organisational levels.
- Action-oriented with a bias toward execution and measurable outcomes.
- Collaborative and team-oriented while comfortable independently driving initiatives.
Pay & Benefits
- The pay range for this role is $116,150 to $182,400 USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity.
- Benefits include health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, long term/short term disability insurance, employee assistance program, flexible spending account, life insurance, generous time off policies, including 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure, 11 paid holidays, and additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave.