Supply Planning Lead COE

Job title:

Supply Planning Lead COE

Company:

Valvoline Global

Job description

Why Valvoline Global Operations?Valvoline Global is a worldwide leader in automotive and industrial solutions, creating future-ready products and best-in-class services for partners around the globe. Established in 1866, we introduced the world’s first branded motor oil, claiming our position as The Original Motor Oil. As an affiliate of Aramco, one of the world’s largest integrated energy and chemicals companies, we continue to invest strategically and expand globally, driving unparalleled product innovation and sustainable business solutions.Our corporate values of care, integrity, passion, unified, and excellence shape everything we do. Living out our values is what makes our company, our employees, our partners, our customers, and the communities we serve great.When you join Valvoline Global, you join a culture that is committed to: treating all people with care, operating with integrity, striving for excellence in everything we do, showing passion about delivering on our commitments, and being unified in all our enterprise endeavors.The Supply Planning COE is responsible for building and maintaining a digital representation of the physical supply chain for both Valvoline owned facilities and key third parties worldwide. The model must be dynamic, real-time and time-phased representation of the various associations between the data objects that ultimately make up how the physical supply chain operates. These models will be used to enable the creation of an optimized global supply plan, for the short- and medium-term horizon. The supply plan must ensure continuous and efficient supply of finished goods (FG) products to customers, using a minimum amount of inventory to maximize efficiency targets, minimize working capital costs and conserve cash by managing stock levels.What you’ll be doing…1. OMP Development and Deployment: Lead development of Valvoline global supply planning models and processes. Identify and model critical production steps including, but not limited to, hot box, blending, filling, loading/unloading, and chemical reactions, new to Valvoline, at all company owned facilities and key third parties globally. Design “what-if” scenario capabilities to make informed strategic decisions on important issues including production mix, inventory and constraint management, and supply disruption at Valvoline facilities or key suppliers globally. Lead development, testing, training and deployment of supply planning in all regions, including VCPL. Critical member of the OMP leadership team.2. Team Capabilities Development: Lead and develop a high-performing, talented and diverse global supply planning team. Support the hiring, training and onboarding of new supply planners on overall process. Define the competency model and assessment for supply planning roles.3. Technology Capabilities Development: Lead technology upgrade projects for supply planning. Drive operational efficiencies and financial returns both globally and regionally by continuously improving Valvoline’s models. Lead cross functional teams with business partners in Operations, Engineering, Accounting, Finance and IT to evaluate enhancements to Valvoline systems for modeling plant adsorption and inventory. Design and build automation to streamline operations planning and provide more consistent models for financial planning. Explore machine learning to potentially improve supply planning models.4. Operational Agility Development: Make the best “what, where, and when” production, procurement, and distribution decisions to optimize the deployment of resources, utilization of materials, and allocation of inventory in existing Valvoline network by developing “what-if” scenario models. Assess/evaluate financial impacts associated with risks and opportunities in existing network. Develop business continuity plans for Valvoline.5. Organizational Capabilities Development: Work with all SCP COEs to ensure the planning organization has the right processes, knowledge and capabilities in order to deliver effectively from the strategy/initiative conception to the execution. Identify modifications to business practices to take full advantage of technology innovation.6. Measurement and continuous improvement: Lead KIP development for S&OE and S&OP for supply-planning activities and outputs, orchestrate corrective action when needed.Your stakeholders…In this role you need to establish relationship with key roles in manufacturing operations leadership and through other process owners and COEs:

• Demand planning
• Customer service
• Manufacturing operations
• Global sourcing/procurement
• Product managers
• Supply planners (FG, material requirements and production planning)
• S&OP leaders and practitioners
• Executive leaders
• Finance (cost/inventory)
• External contacts include key vendors globally.

What you’ll bring…

• Educational qualifications:

• Required:

• A minimum of bachelor’s degree, majoring in engineering, supply chain management or similar field.
• A certification in supply chain from APICS and/or IBF.
• Desired:

• A master’s degree in business, engineering, or supply chain management.
• Work experience

Experience in end-to-end supply chain.Ten years of experience in supply planning and/or operations management.Four years of experience leading supply planning.Proven success in leading teams or processes.Proven track record of successfully working with all levels within an organization.Experience working with external clients.Knowledge, skills & competences:The position will require the following two elements:

• Broad knowledge of manufacturing operations, including the ability to read engineering drawings.
• Deep knowledge in planning processes: demand planning, supply planning, new products introduction, material planning and S&OP process.

Influencing

• Builds excellent relationships with key internal and external customers based on trust and confidence.
• Teaching/educating/coaching/mentoring stakeholders toward desired business outcomes.
• Influential and charismatic, especially with decision makers and operational teams.

Collaboration

• Ability to work within high-performing teams and is highly collaborative.

Conceptual Thinking

• The ability to create original concepts and theories for a variety of projects, and to think creatively and beyond normal constraints.

Strategic Thinking

• Ability to analyze process needs and balance competing interests and to determine the resources needed to meet objectives and solve problems that often span multiple environments in a business area.
• Use thought leadership to anticipate future needs and changes that might be required.

Leveraging Systems

• Ability to identify modifications to business practices to take full advantage of technology innovation.

Detail orientation

• Focused on ensuring that all data and activities are managed at an appropriate level of detail to ensure an accurate inventory and supply plan.

Valvoline Global provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Are you good at what you do? Join us.The Company has put a process in place to make its recruitment process accessible to any and all users. Reasonable accommodations will be provided, upon request, to applicants with disabilities in order to facilitate equal opportunity throughout the recruitment and selection process. Please contact Human Resources at 1-800-Valvoline or email to make a request for reasonable accommodation during any aspect of the recruitment and selection process. The contact information is for accommodation requests only; do not use this contact information to inquire about the status of applications.Requisition ID: 745#LI-LD1

Expected salary

Location

Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland

Job date

Sat, 24 Aug 2024 22:49:01 GMT

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