Supply Planning Global Process Lead

Supply Planning Global Process Lead

Job Description

You were made to do this work: designing new technologies, diving into data, optimizing digital experiences, and constantly developing better, faster ways to get results.

You want to be part of a performance culture dedicated to building technology for a purpose that matters.

Here, you’ll work in an environment that promotes sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development while you help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.  It starts with YOU. 

In this role, you will:


* This position will help facilitate and lead the development of the future global design for KCC supply and inventory planning process and system solution under the Aurora program in collaboration as part of the Aurora Core Team.

The Aurora team will partner with the regions and vendor partners, to ensure and deliver: the blueprint process design and build, landing of the aligned process and system solution with business and technical stakeholders, the aligned outcomes, and effective change management to sustain the future processes and toolset.


* This global process lead will focus on supporting supply planning and inventory optimization (model settings & planning outputs) processes.

This work requires knowledge and skill in full supply chain integration, cross role collaboration and execution, master data clean up and maintenance, new product introductions, sourcing strategy development and execution, production planning (leveraging ePPDS as part of SAP), distribution requirements planning, and material requirements planning.

  


* As part of the Aurora team, this position will ensure KCC achieves superior capability in supply planning by understanding and representing current K-C processes, pushing the Global Process Model (GPM) design to include improved, standardized processes and a system solution that addresses current gaps and pain points.  In addition, the GPM process and system design should deliver integration with important related processes up and down the supply chain, including S&OP and S&OE processes, detailed scheduling, logistics execution planning, etc.


* This role and the Aurora team will need to identify and manage related master data considerations and metrics as part of the design and collaborate across other workstreams to deliver those as part of the execution.

In addition, the solution design and execution should include needed analytics to drive performance and system sustainment.


* Ultimately, this global process lead will work through execution plans and delivery, engaging the regional planning leaders and community to ensure process and system adoption.

Together with the Aurora team, this will include development and delivery of the training curriculum to support process and system implementation and adherence.


* Lead the design and implementation development of the supply planning Global Process Model (GPM), metrics &...