Job Details - Business Process Owner - Demand to Schedule, Toronto ON, Canada

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Reporting to the Global Process Owner- Integrated Supply Chain, the successful candidate will be responsible for leading the development of a standard global process in demand, supply and network planning.  It is critical that the incumbent have an understanding of best practices in demand & supply planning in business to business SAP environment. The incumbent must have a bias towards continuous improvement an ability to understand process as well as possess strong leadership and influencing skills. Most critical is the ability to develop with IBM a clear and communicable vision of how this critical area should operate in a new more effective and efficient world.

Position Requirements include but are not limited to:

Conduct business requirements workshops to identify and document business requirements for:

• Supply network planning master data (locations, products, resources, BOM's and recipes, transportation lanes)
• Planning methods and strategies.
• Capacity planning / leveling
• Setup and changeovers.
• Safety stock settings and strategies
• Interactive planning and simulation
• Integration with demand and production planning, deployment planning, network planning, manufacturing execution, inventory/warehouse management and procurement
• Material requirement planning
• Alert monitoring
• Mapping planning organization to demand planning master data (regions, divisions, brands, products and customers)
• Forecasting models, parameters and characteristics
• Statistical forecast process
• Integration with sales and marketing, financial and production planning
• Sales and operations planning

Provide strategic direction to plan to schedule team as they design and document data, business processes and reporting for supply network planning to include:

• Parameters/characteristics for master data (locations, products, resources, BOM's and recipes, transportation lanes)
• Process flow diagrams for network planning, safety stock planning, simulation, capacity planning, transfer of supply plan to production.
• Parameters/characteristics for master data (products, product families, regions, customers)
• Process flow diagrams for statistical forecasting, S&OP, integration with financial and sales planning
• Integration with legacy systems
• KPI and reporting required to support newly designed supply network planning processes
• Review and test configured SAP system solution for demand planning
• Define roles and system security access for demand and supply planning organization
• Contribute to the content of training materials
• Deliver train-the-trainer courses
• Ability to identify and articulate the level of business transformation and value captured as a result of moving to One McCain solution
• Participate in change impact assessment
• Contribute to Go Live cut over planning and execution
• Relocation is not required but significant travel will be

Key knowledge and skills required to be successful in this role include:

• Understand and articulate company's global planning strategy.
• Knowledge of production planning and scheduling.
• Understanding / experience with integration of network and site planning
• Knowledge of shop-floor and warehouse integration
• Knowledge of major products, production resources and constraints

Key Leadership Attributes required to be successful in this role include:

• Paint a picture: Ability to develop, communicate and support a vision that is clear and inspiring.
• Drive Results: Aptitude towards translating visions and strategy into actionable short, medium and long term plans.
• Champion Change: Drives change as the key to the success of the company’s future and growth and understands how to engage the organization to ensure commitment to change
• Communicates Relentlessly: Has a bias towards openness and transparency of information. Effectively shares ideas, opinions and thoughts and most importantly solicits and builds on the ideas of others
• Build and Maintain Relationships: Utilizes influencing skills to build internal and external relationships
• Make Smart Decisions: A proven ability to use rational thinking and sound judgment to analyze and resolve issues

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