ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Lead end-end factory planning implementation for factory to support short to mid-term demand while considering all major constraints
- Drive process improvement existing factory planning systems in company
- Design and build analytics tools to help factory and operations short and long term objectives.
- Conduct proof of concept, proof of technology. Experience in process re-engineering and make them more agile to address the dynamic business needs
- Lead workshops to drive testing, requirement gathering, solution discussion etc.
- Help and guide cross functional teams in planning activities like factory builds , order promising etc.
- Ability to do Trade-off analysis on different levers in Supply Chain and factory
- Ability to collaborate with business partners to document business requirements and Business Process
- Analyze business requirements to create use cases and testing documentation
- Lead efforts to translate functional requirements into solutions, manage scope and estimated deliverables in all phases of the project
- Project Management Responsibility for all deliverables in all stages including solution design, analysis, coding, testing, and integration
- Understand existing business processes and technology to develop the “to be” and Align to create measurable business ROI
- Drive test planning for functional, Integration and user acceptance testing including workshops to conduct the tests
- Identify Gaps in the current Solutions and Project Manage the implementation of these Gaps working with IT
- Carrying out data and system analysis to identify technical debt/gaps and develop to-be architecture to provide scalability and flexibility to accommodate growing business needs
- Driving new solutions that can be implemented cross-functionally
- Developing key metrics around business impact and user acceptance criteria's
REQUIRED:
- Master’s degree in both Industrial Engineering or Supply chain and Operations or MBA in Supply Chain
- Must have at-least 3 end-end implementation leading experience of factory planning solution in large size company(Blue yonder factory planning preferred)
- 8+ years of work experience in Factory , Supply Chain, Operations, and Project Management
- Excellent understanding on how factories operate , what are major constraints , how constraints are navigated
SKILLS:
- Effective interpersonal skills, ability to influence others, drive new initiatives and way of thinking in the organization
- Understanding future business strategies and directions to implement Process and Systems
- Strong understanding of supply chain concepts and experience in supply chain planning
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Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 1/4/25, although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.
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