Global Process Owner - Supply Chain

The Global Process Owner – Supply Chain is responsible for leading design, measurement, management, and ongoing continuous improvement of Procurement, Planning, and Inventory Management in a transformative work environment. Strong leadership, diplomacy, negotiation, facilitation, and communication skills are essential for aligning processes across the organization. You must address challenges and opportunities, handle ambiguity, make impactful decisions, and clarify conflicting perspectives through thoughtful analysis. Understanding and managing the human aspect of change is crucial, ensuring change aligns with organizational capacity and readiness. Your approach should focus on process excellence by reducing variability and redundancy through standardization and optimization.

Responsibilities:

• Establish and Maintain Process Vision & Strategy
  Define and maintain a clear, strategic vision for End-to-End (E2E) business processes aligned with corporate goals and evolving industry trends. Develop and execute an annual process strategy and maturity roadmap.
• Lead Process Design & Improvement
  Design and optimize standardized, cross-functional processes that drive business value. Collect voice-of-the-customer input and stakeholder feedback to identify and implement improvement opportunities.
• Foster Cross-Functional Collaboration
  Build and lead teams of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and serve as a cross-functional “quarterback” to align business goals, process strategy, and solution architecture. Resolve cross-process integration issues.
• Drive Performance & Value Realization
  Facilitate definition of process-based KPIs and performance measures. Partner with Product Owners and IT to prioritize backlog items aligned with process goals and performance targets.
• Champion Change & Continuous Improvement
  Lead efforts to standardize processes across the organization and champion continuous improvement. Evaluate organizational readiness to adopt changes, balancing disruption with sustainable progress.
• Ensure Governance & Design Integrity
  Act as gatekeeper for process changes, ensuring impacts to people, processes, technology, and metrics are understood and addressed while maintaining design integrity and alignment with solution architecture.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree – Business or related degree required.
• Masters Degree – Business or an area related to their area of expertise preferred.
• 10 to 12 years progressively responsible experience in the field related to the process area being managed.
• 5 years experience in a change management role.
• Experience leading change in an organization.
• Experience with Lean technics, project management and process improvement.
• Ability to travel 0-25%