Build a Supply Chain Career at Whirlpool
Your Work at Whirlpool
Whirlpool is a great place to both launch and enhance your supply chain career. We are focused on ensuring that Every Product is Available Everywhere, Delivered Everyday. Our Customer Centric Supply Chain Strategy ensures a network and order management environment where our products are available to Trade Partners within 48 to 72 hours, with 95 percent order line fill rate service levels.
Our Supply Chain Organization is a $750 million operation encompassing the entire Order to Delivery process for our North American Operations as well as International Transportation. Our distribution network includes managing more than 15 million square feet of state-of-the-art facilities including 11 Factory Distribution Centers, 13 Regional Distribution Centers, and over 100 Local Distribution Centers. Additionally, our supply and demand requirements are managed through our Sales and Operations Planning Organization that works intimately with the Supply Chain Organization.
Your Career Pathway
To manage the supply chain processes, Whirlpool is organized around several key functional areas. These functions develop and execute strategy around critical business challenges such as maximizing distribution and logistics efficiency, complying with international trade and customs laws, and facilitating product allocation and flow planning.
As you gain experiences in the different areas of the Supply Chain, you will also progress on a career path that looks something like:
 Senior Leader
 Supply Chain Director
 Supply Chain Manager
 Supply Chain Analyst
 Supply Chain Specialist
Your Skills
When searching the external market for Supply Chain talent, we look for:
- Degrees from top Supply Chain and engineering universities
- People who possess the ability to manage day-to-day operations as well as think strategically
- Analytical people who can manipulate and simplify complex data
- People who can get the job done no matter the obstacle
- Expert computer skills
The Bottom Line
In making career choices, it’s important that you choose a company that has clear vision of where they are headed and how they plan to get there. Whirlpool’s Supply Chain organization is executing our Customer Centric Supply Chain strategy, and we’re enjoying great success. Join an organization that has made a significant financial investment in its supply chain.
If you’re interested in checking out our open positions in Supply Chain, click here to search our career postings. |