Vice President, Global Engineering

Vice President, Global Engineering

Vice President, Global Engineering is a senior executive leader responsible for defining, standardizing, and executing the global engineering strategy across supply chain operations. This role provides leadership across operations engineering, network design, automation, systems, and customer solutions with a focus on scalability, cost optimization, productivity, and operational excellence across a complex, high-volume global network.

This leader partners closely with Operations, IT, Finance, regional executives, and customers to deliver transformative engineering solutions that enable growth, improve service, and drive sustainable competitive advantage.

Your role:

GLOBAL ENGINEERING STRATEGY & EXECUTION

Set and communicate a clear global vision and strategy for supply chain engineering aligned with enterprise objectives

Lead global engineering functions including site engineering, facilities design, network optimization, capacity planning, automation, material handling, and large-scale capital projects

Establish global standards, methodologies, and performance metrics to ensure consistency and scalability across regions

Oversee global engineering roadmaps and execution of strategic initiatives supporting distribution, transportation, and end-to-end supply chain operations

Evaluate and approve supply chain configuration changes and capital investment decisions that measurably improve throughput, capacity, service, and cost structure

Own the definition and global rollout of supply chain execution systems including WMS, TMS, YMS, OMS, network modeling, and related optimization tools in partnership with Technology leadership

SUPPLY CHAIN PROCESS IMPROVEMENT & INNOVATION

Lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on productivity, asset utilization, quality, and cost reduction across distribution and transportation operations

Partner with regional and country leaders to identify opportunities to standardize and improve core operational processes

Develop global process maturity models, benchmarking frameworks, and best-practice standards

Deliver actionable insights and long-term roadmaps, including 3–5-year logistics, capacity, and network plans

NETWORK DESIGN & AUTOMATION LEADERSHIP

Define and lead the global network design strategy using data-driven analytical models to enable consistent decision-making

Standardize network modeling and analytics capabilities across geographies

Define the future-state automation strategy globally, accounting for regional maturity, business needs, and return on investment

Serve as executive sponsor for major automation, transformation, and multi-tenant warehouse initiatives

CUSTOMER SOLUTIONS & VALUE CREATION

Establish and lead the solutions design vision for the organization

Partner directly with key customers to deliver proactive, scalable, and cost-effective supply chain solutions

Translate customer requirements into network, capacity, systems, and operational design solutions

Oversee solution design, project management, and delivery of complex customer programs

FINANCIAL, CAPITAL & VENDOR LEADERSHIP

Develop and manage global operating and capital budgets related to engineering, facilities, and supply chain transformation

Govern capital investments to ensure alignment with strategic priorities and financial return expectations

Serve as executive sponsor for major RFPs and sourcing initiatives

Partner with Strategic Sourcing and Finance to negotiate contracts, manage vendors, and optimize total cost of ownership

PEOPLE LEADERSHIP & GOVERNANCE

Lead, develop, and inspire a global organization of executive directors, directors, managers, and technical professionals

Build strong leadership pipelines and succession plans

Drive talent development, performance management, and organizational effectiveness

Foster collaboration across global, regional, and functional teams

What you bring to the role:

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (required)

Master’s degree in Engineering (preferred)

MBA strongly preferred

10–15+ years of progressive experience in engineering, supply chain, or operations leadership

Minimum of 5 years in an executive leadership role within a global, matrixed, high-volume organization (Fortune 100 or similar environment preferred)

Demonstrated success leading large-scale supply chain transformations, automation programs, and global systems implementations

Demonstrated experience with green field multi-channel automation design, business case development, securing funding, project management, implementation, and delivery of business case requirements

Experience leading optimization of automation, CMS and WCS capabilities across a global network to achieve improved reliability, scalability, and cost optimization

Demonstrated experience delivering ROI’s across a capital investment portfolio in excess of $50M

Position requires global travel, up to 30% of the time.

This is not a complete listing of the job duties. It’s a representation of the things you will be doing, and you may not perform all these duties.

Ingram Micro Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected category under applicable law.