Global End-to-End Supply Chain Process Owner

About the role

You'll find the cutting-edge technology, world-class polymer expertise and endless advancement opportunities you'd expect from a multi-national industry leader. You'll find them all in an environment that embraces diversity in people and opinions, moves decision making to the point of impact, and celebrates your success.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities

• Develop global standards, policies, and SOPs for E2E supply chain processes that supports operations and global scalability.
• Capture and analyze business requirements and translate these into standardized business processes, including definitions, templates, data sources, technology roadmap, and roles and responsibilities.
• Aid in development of key output and KPI requirements that support the S&OP and S&OE processes.
• Identify and eliminate inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and non-value-added activities across the supply chain and lead corresponding continuous improvement initiatives to address the aforementioned items.
• Provide recommendations for supply planning, process development and improvement on behalf of the stakeholders.
• Drive process harmonization while allowing for local adaptability where necessary.
• Work with supply chain functional teams to collaborate with those including but not limited to operations, EVSMs, product management, procurement, and finance to identify gaps and action plans for improvements.
• Act as the primary liaison between supply chain, manufacturing, engineering, quality, and IT for process improvements and system integrations.
• Address supply planning process-related issues like a fragmented approach to MPS, finished goods or replenishment management, or difficulty in acquiring information from siloed teams in a timely and effective manner.
• Act as a change agent for process transformation across global and cross-cultural teams.
• Lead training, communication, and change management initiatives related to supply chain processes.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, trade, and internal governance requirements.

Required Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain or other relevant fields.
• A certification in supply chain is desired.
• Deep understanding of E2E supply chain concepts (S&OP/IBP, MRP, order fulfillment, logistics, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of ERP systems (SAP S/4 Hana) and supply chain planning tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, as well as the ability to effectively communicate with technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Ability to analyze project needs and balance competing interests, and to determine the resources needed to meet objectives and solve problems that often span multiple environments in a business area.
• Project management skills are needed to manage overall transformation or continuous improvement projects across multiple geographies and business units.
• Change management and transformational change certifications are preferred.

Skills and Experience

• 10+ years of experience in supply chain or operations.
• Understanding of process definition, mapping, analysis and implementation.
• Knowledge of supply planning process across different business units, production plants, products and geographies within the organization.
• Experience with analytics, with experience collecting, organizing and disseminating information accurately.
• Can use thought leadership to anticipate future needs and changes that might be required.
• Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills, as well as strong skills as a negotiator to reach consensus, alignment and commitment.

Job Environment

• Physical Requirements: Standing: Occasionally (16-45%), Sitting Frequently (46-100%), Lifting: Up to 10lbs without assistance, Carrying: Up to 10lbs without assistance, Walking: Frequently (46-100%), Hearing: Ability to detect noises with or without corrective device(s), Vision: Clarity of vision, with or without corrective lenses, Problem Solving: Frequently (46-100%), Making Decisions: Ability to make decisions that have a significant impact, Supervise: Frequently (46-100%), Interpret Data: Frequently (46-100%), Organize: Frequently (46-100%), Read/Write: Frequently (46-100%), Communication: Frequently (46-100%)
• Mental Requirements: Problem Solving: Frequently (46-100%), Making Decisions: Ability to make decisions that have a significant impact, Supervise: Frequently (46-100%), Interpret Data: Frequently (46-100%), Organize: Frequently (46-100%), Read/Write: Frequently (46-100%), Communication: Frequently (46-100%)

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Health savings account
• 401k savings plan
• Life and disability insurance
• Tuition assistance