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**Job Summary**- This role is responsible for driving operational excellence, optimizing supply chain processes, and contributing to the overall success and growth across a large business group or region(s).
The role supervises and leads a team of operations professionals (managers and senior individual contributors) providing guidance, support, and performance evaluations.
The role plays a critical role in shaping the company's supply chain strategy, improving efficiency, reducing costs, and ensuring smooth operations.
**Responsibilities**- Leads a team of managers and senior individual contributors for business operations function by setting overall program objectives and ensuring timely and effective execution.- Manages planning, design, implementation, communication and delivery of the company's demand/supply management and business process initiatives across a large business group or region(s).- Actively partners with internal and external stakeholders and/or suppliers on a regular basis, and manages 3rd party relationships.- Drives multi-year strategies and initiatives at the regional/global/business group level by exercising governance oversight in one or more areas (e.G., key policy decisions, resolution of high impact issues, and new product introduction).- Monitors, diagnoses, and drives resolution for any operational issues.- Identifies opportunities to streamline and optimize operational processes across a large business group or region(s), thereby increasing efficiency and reducing costs.- Directs the creation of reports and analysis to inform business plans and gauge performance against set goals.- Manages the allocation of resources, including personnel, budgets, and equipment, to ensure optimal operational performance.- Holds responsibility for talent management and succession planning, ensuring that the appropriate tools and processes are in place to support the team.
**Education & Experience** Recommended**- Four-year or Graduate Degree in Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing Engineering, Operations management, Business Administration, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.- Typically has 12+ years of job-related and/or management experience, preferably in supply chain, operations, or a related field