Supply Chain Planning Transformation Lead

4 weeks ago

Wilmslow, Cheshire East, United Kingdom Waters Full time
Job Title: Supply Chain Planning Transformation Lead

Join Waters Corporation, a world-leading specialty measurement company, in a mission to transform our End-to-End Supply Planning process. As a Supply Chain Planning Transformation Lead, you will drive improvements to process and system improvements related to demand planning and forecasting feeding into an enterprise-wide state-of-the-art IBP process.

Responsibilities:
  • Lead the design and implementation of Demand Planning and Forecasting Process, first in pilots and later the roll-out to the entire Waters corporation.
  • Establish and lead a cross-functional team of subject-matter experts from both business and technology backgrounds from Finance, Commercial, Portfolio Management, and Supply Chain.
  • Work with functional leaders across functions and sites to develop a good understanding of current processes and systems.
  • Identify best practices to be adopted into current business processes.
  • Create a prioritized roadmap of changes to be introduced, working with both business leaders on other transformation leads to reach alignment.
  • Design and validate proposed changes.
  • Deploy new processes and functionality, leveraging data science approaches.
  • Measure adoption and adherence, execute interventions to drive increased adoption and adherence where necessary.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders outside of Global Operations to ensure alignment with the overall enterprise, e.g., with respect to master data governance, and enterprise IT systems.
  • Develop and attract best-in-class talent.
Qualifications:
  • 7+ years progressive experience in supply chain planning, finance, or operations, including working knowledge of one or more specific areas, esp. demand planning or finance or sales.
  • Experience building and managing cross-functional teams.
  • Process discovery, design, and implementation experience.
  • Knowledge of SAP capabilities, specifically SAP ECC and APO DP.
  • Experience designing and deploying SAP-based processes and functionality.
  • Appreciation of UX best practices in the context of internally deployed solutions.
  • Strong project management skills, experience creating and executing multi-disciplinary projects.
  • Strong influencing skills, proven ability to work across organizational boundaries driving change and harmonization across a global organization.
  • Collaborative, listens and assimilates other viewpoints to come up with a better solution.
  • Agile and responsive, able to handle multiple priorities, act with urgency, and manage ambiguity.
  • Customer-centric, invests time in understanding customer requirements.
  • Results-oriented, takes ownership and operates with high sense of urgency. Proven track record of solving problems, breaking down barriers and delivering results ahead of schedule.
  • Strong written and verbal communication.
  • ASCM certification a plus.
  • Experience with SAP APO DP or IBP and Celonis a plus.
  • BSc Degree or equivalent in an Engineering, Science or Supply Chain discipline. Master's Degree or equivalent industry experience preferred.
About Waters Corporation:

Waters Corporation is a world-leading specialty measurement company, pioneering chromatography, mass spectrometry, and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.

At Waters, we strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We're the problem solvers and innovators that aren't afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We're all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow.

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers, and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity, or protected Veteran status.

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