8116 - Midtown Office - 2220 W. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, 23220
About The Role CarMax sources hundreds of thousands of vehicles each year through consumer purchases, auctions, and other channels. Each vehicle goes through a complex journey from acquisition through reconditioning and logistics before it's ready to be sold to customers. The Supply Chain Strategy team leverages data, analytics, and strategy to optimize this journey, ensuring we purchase an optimal mix of cars, recondition those cars efficiently, and move them through our network to support growth of our retail sales.
There are several sub-teams on Supply Chain Strategy who focus on different parts of the vehicle lifecycle. As a Manager in Supply Chain Strategy, you will work with business partners in our Product, Technology, and Operations to help drive the supply chain business forward on a team focused on one of these areas:
- Consumer Supply Strategy - Works to optimize how we acquire vehicles directly from consumers through our digital and omnichannel processes
- B2B Strategy - Works to enhance the way we exchange with other businesses through selling at our auction or buying directly from third parties
- Merchandising Strategy - Works to ensure we can evaluate and buy vehicles through all channels through efficient and effective operations
- Logistics Strategy - Works to optimize vehicle movement throughout our network and balance the tradeoff of cost and speed
- Service Operations Strategy - Works to enhance reconditioning operations, ensuring vehicles are prepared efficiently and to quality standards that support customer satisfaction
What You Will Do - Essential Responsibilities Some of our roles lean towards partnering more closely with the Product organization and serving as product analyst. In those roles, a successful manager of strategy would:
- Be a strategic thought partner for our product organization by closely partnering with a product manager to help define the strategic direction of one area of our supply chain
- Demonstrate analytic excellence through ensuring we appropriately set up and read product tests, providing a data-backed perspective to opportunity solution tree exercises, and own the creation and maintenance of reports and dashboards to monitor KPIs
- Present recommendations to product executives to collect buy in
Other roles lean towards partnering more closely with our Field Operations organization and serving as an operational analyst. In those roles, a successful manager would:
- Drive execution through the identification of KPIs, target setting, and the creation of management systems and accompanying reporting suites to drive accountability
- Support the implementation of change initiatives by consulting on key strategic problems and analytical work tracks
- Present insights and recommendations to key business partners to achieve consensus for change
Qualifications and Requirements Ability to consistently deliver at a high level on the responsibilities listed above. Requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge and skills required:
- A track record of excellent problem solving, strategic thinking, and quantitative/qualitative analysis
- Experience conducting large scale data analysis to support conclusions, and a willingness to gain proficiency in data analysis tools such as SQL, PowerBI, or Tableau
- Ability to apply business and technical knowledge to solve complex problems, produce results, and make recommendations
- Ability to communicate complex topics to people with varying backgrounds and levels of technical familiarity
- Willingness and enthusiasm to collaborate with a team of passionate analysts and business partners who are regularly shaping strategy at a big-picture and a detailed level
- Four or more years of experience in an analytical or strategic role
- Four-year undergraduate degree with strong academic performance
Work Location and Arrangement: This role will be based out of the CarMax Midtown Office (Richmond, VA) and associates will work onsite 4 days per week.
Work Authorization: Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Sponsorship will
not be considered for this specific role
The annual salary for this position is:$102,100.00 - $163,400.00
May be eligible for bonus and equity.Benefits: Except as otherwise required by state law, CarMax Associates are entitled to the following paid sick, vacation, and holiday time.
Associates that are considered full-time hourly or commission/incentive eligible:
- To earn up to 48 hours of sick time per year accrued on a per pay period basis and between 80 hours and 200 hours per year of vacation time after a 90 day waiting period depending on years of continuous service with the Company.
- For 8 hours of pay for each of a total of 6 paid scheduled holidays per year plus 1 floating holiday. If such an Associate does work on a scheduled holiday due to business need, they are eligible for Holiday Premium Pay.
Associates considered full-time salaried are entitled to paid time away with no specified limit as needed for sick, vacation, bereavement, jury duty, holidays, floating holiday, etc. subject to manager approval.
For more details about benefits, please visit our CarMax Benefits website.
