Company Overview
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Wilsonart is a world leading manufacturer and distributor of engineered surfaces with approximately $1.4b in annual revenue and a global workforce of more than 4,500. Wilsonart surfaces are used in the office, education, healthcare, residential, hospitality and retail markets. Wilsonart, operating under the Wilsonart®, Resopal®, Polyrey®, Arborite®, Laminart®, Bushboard™, Mermaid™, Shore®, Ralph Wilson®, KML®, NewLeaf®, Wetwall®, Durcon® and Technistone® brands, manufactures and distributes High Pressure Laminate, Quartz, Solid Surface, Coordinated TFL and Edgebanding and other engineered surface options. Wilsonart does business in more than 100 countries with manufacturing operations in North America, United Kingdom, France, Germany and Czech Republic.
Positioned for Future Growth
An extensive global manufacturing footprint, state-of-the-art process technologies, and scalable Global distribution capabilities provide a meaningful competitive advantage with excellent brand recognition and a reputation for product innovation and superior service which allow for strong and stable margin performance and robust cash flow conversion. We have a strong company culture and an extremely talented employee base as well as a dedicated and invested core Executive Leadership Team.
Our History
For more than 60 years, Wilsonart has honored our founders' promise to provide our customers with industry-leading products and service. In November 2012, Wilsonart became a new, independent company when Clayton, Dubilier & Rice ("CD&R") and Illinois Tool Works Inc. (NYSE: ITW) completed a transaction for the sale of ITW's Decorative Surfaces business unit. CD&R acquired a majority stake in the new freestanding business and ITW retained an ongoing ownership stake.
Founded in 1978, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice is a private equity firm with an investment strategy predicated on producing financial returns through building stronger, more profitable businesses. The Firm’s partners and advisors include a combination of skilled investment decision-makers and seasoned corporate leaders from major global enterprises. Since inception, CD&R has managed the investment of more than $18 billion in 56 businesses with an aggregate transaction value of approximately $90 billion. The Firm has offices in New York and London. For more information, please visit http://www.cdr-inc.com/.
Our Mission and Values
Wilsonart is driven by a mission to create surfaces people love, with service you can count on, delivered by people who care. Wilsonart is driven by providing beautiful, hard-working, on-trend and high performing engineered surfaces for whatever you need to cover. For decades, our companies worldwide have given designers and builders the right tools for the job, no matter how specialized. Today, we bring you a portfolio of solutions, both decorative and functional, that spans retail, hospitality, healthcare, education, office, and institutional applications.
Service You Can Count On.
Wilsonart is dedicated to getting our customers what they want, when and how they want it. From a North American fleet of trucks, to strategically located distribution centers around the world, we can service the globe with our expanding range of products and services.
People Who Care.
Over 4,500 people strong, Wilsonart is made up of dedicated people who care about doing the right thing, every day. Whether it’s making a flawless sheet of high-pressure laminate, volunteering at a community house raising or sourcing sustainable materials, Wilsonart people care deeply about what they do, who they do it for, and how they do it.
Position Overview:
Wilsonart is looking for a Planning and Scheduling Systems Lead as part of its multi-year ERP transformation journey on Oracle e-business suite. The ideal candidate would be hands on subject matter expert in planning and scheduling process and have expertise in configuring and implementing applications to meet the business needs.
Required Qualifications:
- Functional design and configuration experience with combination of the any advanced supply chain planning applications in a manufacturing/distribution environment
- Extensive experience rolling out systems for production planning, demand management, material requirements planning and/or capacity requirements planning.
- Configuration experience of data elements essential for planning/scheduling such as inventory planning methodologies (Min-Max/Safety Stock), Planning parameters and horizons.
- Experience in data analysis to effectively measure the progress of configuration changes in planning parameters for continuous improvements
- Prior experience in defining systems requirements, designing and prototyping solutions, consulting with users on process transformation, testing, training, go-live, expertise in system cutovers and defining support procedures
- Reporting to senior management and working with global teams during implementation and post go-live
- Experience managing work stream scope, change requests, delivery against defined milestones; mitigate and remediate risk factors and propose solutions based on best practices
- Ability to balance multiple projects and prioritize competing business needs while delivering consistently high quality and timely work
- 8+ years of Oracle or any other advanced planning and scheduling applications functional implementation experience
- Data analysis
- A good combination of skills in functional and technical aspects of supply chain applications
- AIM methodology and Waterfall / Agile Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Conduct business workshop sessions and facilitate/document business requirements to understand business demand and initiatives
- Provide hands on setup and functional module implementation/configuration and training of system driven processes
- Demonstrated ability to improve process efficiency and promote and manage change in the organization
- Serve as the business process and system solutions planning and scheduling subject matter expert to assist organization in optimizing, standardizing, and improving system solutions and business processes.
- Proactively partner with supply chain systems providers to understand relevant best practices and deliver new system functionality and solutions to support accounting, reporting, and financial planning
- Planning and delivery of strategic and tactical initiatives to the business leveraging Oracle e-Business Suite manufacturing and supply chain management modules
- Create and review functional requirements from the business and ensure development team creates architecturally compliant designs
- Effectively design the necessary KPIs to measure the success of the planning and scheduling operations to continuously monitor and improve the operational efficiency
- Work collaboratively with business and technical infrastructure teams to produce quality system design, utilizing best practice methodology and technology
- Follow and responsible for configuration and change management processes during implementation and application support
- Effectively manage the changes required for better adoption of new solution driven processes
- Lead and manage resources from both onshore and offshore
- Collaborate with project stakeholders and analyze solutions for process improvement
- Ownership and accountability of the release management process to include prioritizing, planning, building, testing and execution in accordance with compliance requirements
Education and Certifications
- Bachelor's degree, or related field with 8+ years of experience related to the duties and responsibilities specified above.
- Certification in Oracle EBS or any other advanced planning and scheduling systems
Nice to have, but not required
- Worked as a planner or scheduler in a manufacturing environment
- Certification in CSCP/CPIM/CPSM
- PMP Certification
WORKING CONDITIONS
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
Sitting in the same location of standing/walking; required to stoop, climb, or lift light material (10-20lbs) or equipment.
