Supply Chain Planning COE Program Manager

Description -

Job scope/summary:

The role is responsible for owning, designing, and continuously improving best-in-class planning processes within a defined domain (e.g., inventory, deployment, lifecycle) across the Service Supply Chain Planning COE. The position operates with a high degree of ownership, combining deep supply chain planning process expertise, strong analytical skills, and ERP/planning systems knowledge to deliver scalable process designs, practical recommendations, and measurable business outcomes aligned with customer needs and operational performance.

The Role Combines

• Process expertise and ownership — designing robust, standardized, efficient, and scalable planning processes
• Analytical problem solving and stakeholder collaboration — translating complex planning challenges into clear insights, options, and process decisions
• ERP and planning systems enablement — ensuring tools and data support the target process design and business outcomes
  
  

The role partners across functions to solve complex planning challenges, brings together diverse perspectives, and enables informed decision-making through data-driven insights, clear trade-offs, and practical process recommendations. In addition, the role contributes to COE capability development by mentoring colleagues, documenting best practices, and raising the maturity of planning processes across the organization.

Job Specifics/responsibilities

Process Design / Transformation Leadership

• Lead the design and deployment of best-in-class supply chain planning processes within the assigned planning domain
• Define target process scope, requirements, milestones, risks, and dependencies for transformation initiatives
• Structure complex planning problems and translate them into clear process workstreams, business requirements, and deliverables
• Drive alignment across stakeholders on process design choices, standardization, and adoption priorities
• Support process decision-making through strong analytical rigor and clear recommendations:
• Structured analysis
• Clear options and trade-offs
• Actionable recommendations
• Manage process governance, documentation, reporting, and communication
• Ensure delivery of measurable business outcomes (service, inventory, cost)
  

Process Ownership

• Own the end-to-end design and continuous improvement of planning processes within the assigned domain
• Benchmark, challenge, and shape solutions toward standardized, scalable, and best-in-class process design
• Develop and maintain process documentation, business rules, adoption materials, and operating standards
• Provide deep process expertise to ensure end-to-end consistency across planning areas, data flows, and ERP/planning system interactions
• Define and track process KPIs, using analytical insights to identify gaps, root causes, and improvement opportunities
  
  

Key Deliverables/accountabilities

• Delivery of best-in-class planning process designs and transformation workstreams within Planning COE
• Improvement of process performance and KPI outcomes through analytical insights and continuous improvement
• Implementation and adoption of standardized, integrated, and scalable planning processes
• ERP and planning solution enablement aligned with target process design and business needs
• Contribution to COE process maturity, best-practice sharing, and capability building
  
  

Education (degree) And Professional Experience Required

• Bachelor or Master degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering or related field.
• Typically 7–10+ years of experience in supply chain planning, process design, or related transformation roles, including:
• Supply chain planning process design, ownership, or continuous improvement
• Strong analytical experience translating data into insights, trade-offs, and recommendations
• Hands-on exposure to ERP, advanced planning tools, data, and transformation initiatives.
  
  

Other Requirements

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to convert data into clear process insights and decisions
• Ability to operate in complex and ambiguous environments while driving process clarity, standardization, and adoption
• Fluency in English (both written and verbal)
  
  

Personal Skills And Qualities

• Strong communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills across functions
• Ability to simplify complex topics and communicate clear recommendations to diverse audiences
• Collaborative mindset with an interest in building partnerships and supporting team success
• Ability to mentor, coach, and support the growth and development of others
• Comfortable working in evolving and ambiguous environments while remaining flexible and open to new perspectives
• Commitment to continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and improvement
  
  

Technical skills (procedures and documents the employee has to be acquainted with):

• ERP / planning tools knowledge, preferably SAP and Servigistics, with ability to connect process design to system capabilities
• Advanced data analysis, root-cause analysis, KPI definition, and process performance measurement
• Process mapping, business requirements definition, change adoption, and transformation governance methodologies
  
  

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Job -

Supply Chain & Operations

Schedule -

Full time

Shift -

No shift premium (Spain)

Travel -

Not Specified

Relocation -

No

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