Director Network Optimization

The Director Network Optimization will lead enterprise-wide efforts in designing and optimizing our global manufacturing and supply chain network.

In this high-impact role, this role will act as a central thought leader, partnering with business units across the company to identify network optimization opportunities, run complex scenario analyses, and guide long-term footprint decisions. This role will also develop the structure, standard processes and governance to standardize the network project process approach from ideation to closure. This role will enable the enterprise to deliver improved service, cost, agility, and sustainability outcomes through a well-aligned, data-driven network strategy.

As the Director Network Optimization, you will:

• Lead enterprise-level network modeling and scenario planning across manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution

• Partner with business units to identify and evaluate optimization opportunities (e.g., regional consolidation, nearshoring, dual sourcing, DC placement).

• Support business unit network optimization project execution

• Act as a trusted advisor to Business Unit leaders, helping translate business strategy into network design implications

• Align cross-functional stakeholders around recommendations that balance service, cost, and risk

• Develop enterprise playbooks, frameworks, and tools to support ongoing network decision-making

• Develop enterprise structure, standard processes and governance for network optimization projects from ideation to closure

• Serve as a connector across the enterprise, facilitating knowledge sharing, best practice exchange, and capability building

• Monitor trends (e.g., logistics markets, geopolitical risks, capacity shifts) and proactively identify strategic network risks and opportunities

Whether you are a professional looking for a career change, an undergraduate student exploring your first opportunity, or recent graduate with an advanced degree, we have opportunities that will allow you to innovate, be challenged and make an impact. Join our team and start your journey today!, + Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or a related field

• 10+ years of experience in network strategy, operations strategy, operations consulting, or enterprise supply chain roles

• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills, with the ability to influence across functions, geographies, and levels

• Strong and curious analytical skillset, identifying patterns, exceptions to patterns, and identifying drivers of these outliers

• Flexible to manage time across pivots in task prioritization of oneself and the team, and communicate for impact the necessary support to navigate through issues and challenges

• Strong communication skills, capable of communicating for impact the key messages for an audience and associating asks through both oral and written mediums

• Bias for action and excited to use voice in meetings to cut through ambiguity and seek clarity

• Strong experience partnering with multiple business units in a matrixed environment

• Deep understanding of end-to-end supply chain functions (sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, distribution)

• Experience leading large-scale, enterprise-wide transformation projects and network optimization exposure

Preferred education, experiences & skills:

• MBA or Master’s preferred

• Proficiency in advanced analytical and modeling skills using tools such as LLamasoft (Coupa), AnyLogic, or equivalent, Copeland will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1 with OPT or CPT, H-1, H-2, L-1, B, J or TN, or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

This role is fully remote. As a remote colleague, you may be required to travel to a Copeland site regularly to collaborate with your team or customers as needed. Copeland is committed to fostering a productive and connected culture, so you will have the opportunity to work with your team and leader to understand your team operating principles to collaborate effectively. Our compensation philosophy is simple: we pay a competitive base salary, within the local market in which we operate, and reward performance during our annual merit review process. In accordance with Colorado EPEWA, the salary/pay range for this role is $126,000-227,000 annually, commensurate with the skills, talent, capabilities, and experience each candidate brings to a role.

We are a global climate technologies company engineered for sustainability. We create sustainable and efficient residential, commercial and industrial spaces through HVACR technologies. We protect temperature-sensitive goods throughout the cold chain. And we bring comfort to people globally. Best-in-class engineering, design and manufacturing combined with category-leading brands in compression, controls, software and monitoring solutions result in next-generation climate technology that is built for the needs of the world ahead., Our Commitment to Our People

Across the globe, we are united by a singular Purpose: Sustainability is no small ambition. That’s why everything we do is geared toward a sustainable future-for our generation and all those to come. Through groundbreaking innovations, HVACR technology and cold chain solutions, we are reducing carbon emissions and improving energy efficiency in spaces of all sizes, from residential to commercial to industrial.

Our employees are our greatest strength. We believe that our culture of passion, openness, and collaboration empowers us to work toward the same goal - to make the world a better place. We invest in the end-to-end development of our people, beginning at onboarding and through senior leadership, so they can thrive personally and professionally.

Flexible and competitive benefits plans offer the right options to meet your individual/family needs: medical insurance plans, dental and vision coverage, 401(k) and more. We provide employees with flexible time off plans, including paid parental leave, vacation and holiday leave.

Together, we have the opportunity - and the power - to continue to revolutionize the technology behind air conditioning, heating and refrigeration, and cultivate a better future. Learn more about us and how you can join our team!

Our Commitment to Inclusion & Belonging

At Copeland, we cultivate a strong sense of inclusion and belonging where individuals of all backgrounds, and with diverse perspectives, are embraced and treated fairly to enable a stronger workforce. Our employee resource groups play an important role in culture and community building at Copeland., With $5B of global revenue, Copeland is a leading provider of compression products, electronics, software, and solutions across many applications within Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration (HVACR), where macro and regulatory trends towards environmental sustainability, leads to changes in HVACR technology. Other products include other heating applications, food service and retail, transportation, and healthcare/life sciences. This new business also has a solution portfolio that manages, monitors, and controls refrigeration units in the commercial setting, as well as software solutions that measure and monitor temperature conditions of refrigerated goods in transit, where there is a greater emphasis on energy management/sustainability solutions globally.