Principal Supply Chain Analyst

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

WD is building the infrastructure behind the AI-driven data economy.

As AI scales, so does data. Every interaction, every model, every system generates data that must be stored, managed, and made accessible over time. That’s where we come in.

We combine deep engineering expertise with global-scale manufacturing to deliver the storage systems that make AI possible, powering hyperscale data centers, cloud platforms, and enterprise infrastructure worldwide.

This isn’t theoretical work. It’s real systems, at real scale, people solving some of the hardest challenges in technology today.

We’re looking for people who want to build, solve, and operate at that level.

Join us and let’s shape the future of data.

We are seeking a detail-oriented and analytical supply chain analyst to support cross-functional initiatives spanning Logistics, Supply Chain planning, Business Units, ERP Systems, Revenue and External Audit. As a part of WD global operations, this role will act as a key link between overall supply chain operations, technology, internal customers, external suppliers and auditors with responsibility for understanding and documenting processes, driving analytics for improving efficiency, leading systems enhancements, identifying controls for operational risks and process improvement opportunities, and supporting revenue audit activities. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Implementing manufacturing and/or business process improvements that will increase capacity, reduce lead-time & eliminate non-value added. 

• Planning supply and customer order fulfillment by: 

• Analyzing and resolving daily supply plan mismatches to customer demand and orders 

• Producing weekly material and capacity plans for the logistics warehouse. 

• Driving closure of excess and obsolete inventory on a weekly basis. 

• Driving daily closure of inquiries from internal customers. 

• Performing reporting and analytics tasks by consolidating shipments, orders, inventory, forecasts, and related hub transactional data from a variety of business information systems such as Business Objects, Demantra, i2, and Oracle to provide for an account overview for management reporting.  

• Executing Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) quarterly activities and maintain production/inventory system for accurate data. 

• Building reports and models to track actual orders against forecasted quantity. 

• Measuring the performance of each supplier from an engineering, roadmap alignment, cost, quality, and delivery perspective. 

• Measuring and analyzing cycle time for repetitive functions, such as mass production, order fulfillment and transportation. 

• Providing accurate data for monthly business process updates and periodic customer sales forecast updates.   

• Participate in ERP enhancement by requirements gathering, solution design, user acceptance testing (UAT), implementation, and post-implementation validation. 

• Participating in fiscal period close by providing manufacturing variance analysis and inventory reserve validation. 

• Perform monthly and quarterly inventory reconciliations across global warehouses, co-ordinate in variance investigation between systems. 

• Performing variance analysis on how order fulfillment changes affect the supply chain inventory. 

• Planning for inventory readiness to meet new product development activities to facilitate on time product launch and uninterrupted mass production.   

• Securing that backlog is booked, scheduled, and shipped to meet the customer expected dock dates.   

• Leading data collection of inputs from logistics operations/supply chain/engineering teams and coordinating cross functional review processes to set material standard cost to serve. 

• Conferring with teams about product specifications, vendors about purchases, management personnel about manufacturing capabilities, and staff about the status of projects. 

• Resolving daily supply plan mismatches to demand, producing weekly material and capacity plans for the factories, weekly closure of excess and obsolete inventory, and daily closure of inquiries from internal customers.   

• Performing manufacturing variance analysis and inventory reserve validation to support fiscal period close.   

• Using SQL and Excel to collect, synthesize and analyze data to understand issues concerning incoterms, revenue recognition, transit times, net payment terms, and supply chain operations. 

• Administering recurring cost analyses to drive recommendations for Executive team by working with Finance, Product Technology Planning, Product Engineering, Procurement, Supply Chain Planning and Program/Product Management. 

• Consolidating shipments, orders, inventory, forecasts, and related hub transactional data from a variety of business information systems such as Business Objects, Business Objects, Demantra, i2, and Oracle to provide for an account overview for management reporting.   

• Managing multiple projects and tasks simultaneously and effectively influence, negotiate, and communicate with internal and external business partners, contractors and 3PL vendors. 

• Serve as a subject-matter resource for assigned logistics processes and ensure process documentation remains current. Own and maintain end-to-end process flows for supply chain logistics operations, including documenting current-state and future-state processes. Gather, document, and translate business requirements into clear functional specifications. Develop and maintain process maps, workflows, SOPs, and business requirements. 

• Partner with Internal Audit to support audits, control testing, remediation activities, and management responses. Coordinate with External Auditors by preparing periodic schedules, supporting documentation, reconciliations, and audit evidence. Work closely with the Revenue team to support revenue recognition processes, identify risk and control gaps, and support accurate and timely reporting. 

• Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering, Finance, Business, Supply Chain, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 3-5+ years of experience in supply chain, Business analysis, Logistics, internal/external audit, revenue operations.
• Experience with ERP systems like Oracle, SAP.
• Exposure to Risk, Control and Audit tools
• Fluent with documenting process flows with Visio or Lucid Chart and implementing cross functional SOPs
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Familiarity with BI/reporting tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar.
• Exposure to SOX, internal controls, or audit remediation.
• Experience supporting system automation and digital transformation initiatives with AI
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.

Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the “Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal” poster. Our pay transparency policy is available here: Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision (dol.gov)

Western Digital thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.

Western Digital is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at View email address on ziprecruiter.com to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.

Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 12/10/2026 (3 months from posting), although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.

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Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York.  This range may be modified in the future.
• If your position is non-exempt, you are eligible for overtime pay pursuant to company policy and applicable laws.  You may also be eligible for shift differential pay, depending on the shift to which you are assigned.

• You will be eligible to be considered for bonuses under  either WD’s Short Term Incentive Plan (“STI Plan”) or the Sales Incentive Plan (“SIP”) which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance, depending on your role and your performance. You may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to WD's Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program; employee stock purchase plan; and the WD Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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