Steve Power
Head of Global Supply Chain Transformation and Data Services @Ciena
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WORK HISTORY
Head of Global Supply Chain Transformation and Data Services @Ciena
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Leading Ciena’s global Supply Chain Transformation and Data organization, with accountability for shaping the future-state digital, process, and data ecosystem that underpins a multi‑billion‑dollar global supply chain.I drive both strategic thought leadership and enterprise‑level execution across modernization initiatives, ensuring Ciena’s supply chain becomes more predictive, automated, and value‑generating.Key areas of responsibility:• Digital Supply Chain Modernization: Advancing next‑generation capabilities across platforms, tools, and technologies to enable a fully digitized, insights‑driven supply chain.• Process Standardization & Operating Model Harmonization: Defining and implementing scalable, cross‑functional process frameworks that reduce complexity and improve enterprise agility.• Data Architecture & Governance: Building a governed, high‑quality, and scalable data foundation to power enterprise‑wide analytics, automation, and decision intelligence.• Transformation Leadership: Driving the roadmap, program governance, adoption, and value realization of global transformation initiatives.• Shift from Reporting to Automation: Leading the evolution from dashboards to automated, event‑driven insights and integrated responses across planning, order management, fulfillment, and service.• Enterprise Value & Cost‑to‑Serve: Delivering initiatives that reduce cost‑to‑serve while increasing resilience, predictability, and customer value.• Organizational Leadership: Leading a multi‑disciplinary team across digital transformation, data services, and process excellence, including integration of teams across strategy, analytics, and supply chain operations.This role positions Ciena to accelerate digital transformation and strengthen the data backbone that supports its global supply chain.
EDUCATION
The University of Salford
1st Class BSc. Joint Honours, Computer Science and Computational Physics
The Open University
MBA, Finance and Strategy specialities
MIT Sloan School of Management
Leadership Certificate, Data Science for Leaders
SKILLS
ABOUT STEVE POWER
Global transformation, data, and operations leader with a track record of driving enterprise‑level change across digital supply chain, process modernization, and analytics. I specialize in designing future‑state operating models, mobilizing large cross‑functional teams, and delivering measurable impact through technology, data, and process innovation.My experience spans multiple VP and Senior Director roles across strategy, operations, order‑to‑fulfill, planning, and global transformation. I’m passionate about modernizing complex supply chains, reducing cost‑to‑serve, and enabling predictive, automated, and insight‑driven decision making.Currently leading Ciena’s global Supply Chain Transformation & Data organization, responsible for digital modernization, operating model design, data strategy, and execution of enterprise transformation programs.
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