Love's Travel Stops seeks an experienced Supply Chain Data Manager to oversee data collection, governance, and analysis. In this technical role, you will manage a team of data analysts to ensure data assets are accurate and leveraged to optimize supply chain operations, improve decision-making, and support digital transformation. The ideal candidate will bridge business and technical teams, driving a culture of data integrity.
What You'll Do
- Build and maintain effective relationships with management, peers, business product owners, and internal stakeholders.
- Take responsibility for data platforms in supply chain, including Master Data Management (Syniti Knowledge Platform), item master/pricebook (SAP), product lifecycle management (BambooRose PLM), and Supply Chain Data Warehouse (Snowflake).
- Collaborate within technology teams and with business stakeholders to roadmap data needs and their prioritization, translating data into business value.
- Collaborate with cross-functional business and technology teams on meeting business objectives through data enabled solutions.
- Lead a team of data analysts responsible for master data solutions, data integrations, and supply chain analytics.
- Train and mentor team and stakeholders on data literacy and tools.
- Ensure seamless data flow between data sources that support supply chain, including SAP, Blue Yonder, Manhattan WMS/TMS, and Anaplan Merchandise Financial Planning.
- Provide direction and make decisions about data integration strategies and practices across data solutions in Supply Chain.
- Monitor performance of data integrations and implement solutions to optimize performance and self-heal.
- Oversee supply chain master data management for suppliers, products, and logistics partners.
- Partner with supply chain leaders to identify KPIs and design solutions to provide visibility and ensure accuracy of KPIs.
- Drive collaboration with internal teams and third-party partners to identify AI opportunities and extend AI capabilities.
- Leverage AI tools to automate data preparation, uncover data insights, and enable natural language queries using tools such as Snowflake’s Cortex and Intelligence platforms and machine learning.
- Lead AI initiatives for data modeling, data integrity, and data processing.
- Lead development of agentic AI data agents to explore datasets, monitor KPIs, identify trends and anomalies, and define actionable opportunities and risks.
- Ensure completion of gap analysis, solution assessments, and evaluation of options, presenting recommendations to business and technical stakeholders to ensure alignment.
- Be responsible for completion and accuracy of data documentation, including definitions and use, logical data models, data relationships, and design documents.
- Build practices and solutions to validate data accuracy and completeness.
- Ensure test cases, test scripts, and representative test data are prepared and executed.
- Collaborate with test automation engineers to define automation testing strategies for data solutions and integrations for key solutions.
- Ensure system reliability of Supply Chain data platforms and execute upgrade and maintenance plans.
- Prepare change control documentation and present to change advisory board.
- Perform other duties assigned as needed.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain.
Technical Stack
- Syniti Knowledge Platform
- SAP
- BambooRose PLM
- Snowflake
- Blue Yonder
- Manhattan WMS/TMS
- Anaplan Merchandise Financial Planning
- Snowflake Cortex
Team & Environment
You will lead a team of data analysts.
