Senior Supply Chain Consultant

Office Location – Chicago, IL (hybrid; modern co-working space) +

Location of Consulting Engagements – National/Various Locations around the US

Position – Senior Supply Chain Consultant

Date – August 2026

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Packoneers is looking for a Senior Supply Chain Consultant who has the key mix of professional and academic experiences that will easily align with firm’s youthful and disciplined culture, and the current consulting engagements in which the firm is engaged.

Packoneers is a boutique management consulting firm specializing in the packaging industry, improving performance along the entire value stream with a focus on operational and administrative efficency, with offices in Vienna and Denver, now building out its Chicago presence as part of the North American expansion.

As Senior Consultant, you will take ownership of client engagements from scoping through delivery — leading the work, owning the client relationship, and helping shape how Packoneers grows in the North American market. This is a senior, client-facing role that combines hands-on engagement leadership with business development and the mentoring of junior team members.

The right fit candidate will likely have an engineering degree (industrial, mechanical), or business or supply chain undergraduate and graduate degrees (MBA a plus), with significant experience in efficiency management consulting that is focused on the packaging and printing industries, manufacturing, automation, and related process and system efficiencies and improvement.

Company and Service Background

Packoneers was founded, and is led, by a very experienced team of management consultants from Austria who are now engaged in consulting projects with large-scale US-based packaging and printing companies. The aim and scope of work is to fully understand and drive production, operations, supply chain, administrative, and system efficiencies for its clients. And ultimately significant and sustainable increased levels of profitability.

Key industry market segments for Packoneers are in most FMC (fast moving consumer goods) items – food & beverage, food service, home and garden, personal care, health care, pet care, beauty, e-commerce, and various other types of contract packaging and manufacturing.

Packoneers analyzes various printing technologies and production steps, including offset, Flexo, Rotogravure, cutting and creasing, hot foil, window patching, slitting, and gluing, etc., as well as administrative and supply chain processes - providing a holistic view of the technology and workflow utilization across the sector.

By leveraging this knowledge, Packoneers’ clients gain valuable insights into the current performance levels of their industry. Every engagement and project begins with seeking to deeply understand the current technologies and processes that are in place - by conducting in-depth interviews with key stakeholders that uncover the unique operational challenges and goals that leveraging the firms’ existing extensive benchmarking database, then comparing the client’s performance against industry leaders and peers.

Packoneers then identifies critical gaps and mapping opportunities for improvement, creating the foundation for increased growth.

Job Description & Key Responsibilities

Client Delivery

• Lead S&OP process design and implementation engagements from scoping through go-live
• Own working capital diagnostics, benchmarking, and operations gap analyses for client accounts
• Direct demand planning and inventory optimization workstreams
• Serve as the primary client contact — manage relationship, expectations, and engagement economics
• Lead client workshops and steering committee presentations
• Review and guide the work of Consultants and Junior Consultants on the engagement team

Analytics & Data

• Set the analytical approach for engagements and quality-check models and dashboards built by the team
• Translate complex supply chain data into client-ready insight and recommendations
• Evaluate digital SCM platforms and proprietary Packoneers tools for client use
• Write user stories and provide high-level feedback to developers as Packoneers' own tools are built out

Qualifications

• Senior Supply Chain Consultant who has the key professional and academic experiences that will easily align with the current consulting engagements in which the firm is engaged
• Self-starter with a well-established consulting approach, and the ability and willingness to learn from Packoneers partners and senior consultants
• Entrepreneurial and creative mindset for performance-driven packaging and printing industry manufacturing consulting, and a verifiable track record
• Openness to significant business travel in North America
• Comfortable working in an international, cross-cultural team environment (Austrian + American)
• Minimum academic and professional qualifications are a degree in an applicable STEM field (industrial, mechanical engineering), and/or a business or supply chain discipline with deep technical experience within the printing and packaging industries. Including graduate degrees, MBA a bonus
• Expected work experience of 3 to 6 years – in SCM, S&OP, procurement, logistics, operations consulting, including client-facing delivery leadership
• Advanced Excel and BI tool fluency (Power BI, Tableau); SQL a plus
• Confident client-facing presence — able to lead workshops and executive-level conversations
• Skilled at translating complex data into clear, decision-ready narratives
• Proposal writing and commercial acumen

Compensation and Benefits

• Unique opportunity to be a pivotal and leading North American Senior Supply Chain Consultant
• Compensation – Base Salary $85k to $110k + sales commission/bonus structure of 30%
• Retirement (401k) with employer matching + health insurance with employer contributions
• Regular travel expense account (airfare, citywide travel, hotels, per diem)