**Job Summary**
- This role is responsible for driving operational excellence, optimizing supply chain processes, and contributing to the overall success and growth across a large business group or region(s). The role supervises and leads a team of operations professionals (managers and senior individual contributors) providing guidance, support, and performance evaluations. The role plays a critical role in shaping the company's supply chain strategy, improving efficiency, reducing costs, and ensuring smooth operations.
**Responsibilities**
- Leads a team of managers and senior individual contributors for business operations function by setting overall program objectives and ensuring timely and effective execution.
- Manages planning, design, implementation, communication and delivery of the company's demand/supply management and business process initiatives across a large business group or region(s).
- Actively partners with internal and external stakeholders and/or suppliers on a regular basis, and manages 3rd party relationships.
- Drives multi-year strategies and initiatives at the regional/global/business group level by exercising governance oversight in one or more areas (e.g., key policy decisions, resolution of high impact issues, and new product introduction).
- Monitors, diagnoses, and drives resolution for any operational issues.
- Identifies opportunities to streamline and optimize operational processes across a large business group or region(s), thereby increasing efficiency and reducing costs.
- Directs the creation of reports and analysis to inform business plans and gauge performance against set goals.
- Manages the allocation of resources, including personnel, budgets, and equipment, to ensure optimal operational performance.
- Holds responsibility for talent management and succession planning, ensuring that the appropriate tools and processes are in place to support the team.
**Education & Experience** Recommended**
- Four-year or Graduate Degree in Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing Engineering, Operations management, Business Administration, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.
- Typically has 12+ years of job-related and/or management experience, preferably in supply chain, operations, or a related field.
**Preferred Certifications**
- Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
- Certified Professional In Supply Management (Standards Organizations)
**Knowledge & Skills**
- Continuous Improvement Process
- Data Analysis
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- Finance
- Inventory Control
- Inventory Management
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Lean Manufacturing
- Material Requirements Planning
- Materials Management
- Process Improvement
- Procurement
- Production Planning
- Purchasing
- SAP Applications
- Supply Chain
- Supply Chain Analysis
- Supply Chain Management
- Supply Chain Planning
- Warehousing
**Cross-Org Skills**
- Customer Centricity
- Prioritization
- Resilience
- Team Management
- Strategic Thinking
**Impact & Scope**
- Impacts multiple functions and may act as a lead to peers on cross-functional project teams working to establish and execute business goals.
**Complexity**
- Contributes to the development of company objectives and achieves goals through subordinate high-level individual contributors and managers.
**Disclaimer