Senior Business and Organizational Change Manager
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Senior Supply Chain Consultant
Clarkston Consulting
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • North Carolina
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Senior
About the role
- Deliver creative business solutions to market-leading clients in life sciences, consumer products, and retail
- Work closely with clients to streamline and combine people, processes, technology, and controls to improve operational effectiveness, lower costs, reduce redundancy, and lower risks
- Focus on physical operations and supply chain management improvements including manufacturing, distribution, logistics, procurement, sourcing, and inventory management
- Earn trusted client status and develop relationships that extend beyond the project’s lifecycle
- Conduct knowledge transfer and training of end-users and share best practices
- Provide guidance to junior analysts and client personnel
- When not at a client site, work from home office; role involves substantial client travel
Requirements
- A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional supply chain consulting or equivalent industry experience in the life sciences or/and consumer products industry in a combination of the following areas: Supply Chain Strategy, MRP, PLM, and Demand Planning
- Ability to create supply chain performance measures for planning, execution, and financials that include standard definitions and industry performance benchmarks
- Capacity to describe performance tradeoffs and how those decisions are connected to the broader business
- Familiarity with Sales & Operations Planning, Integrated Business Planning, or other cross-functional operating models
- Understanding of process objectives, relevant monthly cycle of meetings, positive meeting behaviors, and ensuring the desired analytical reporting
- Experience with demand planning for a significant product portfolio, guiding through common accuracy challenges (e.g. stakeholder bias), and taking actions to improve the forecasting process over time
- Expertise in supply planning across multiple network tiers including finished goods, components, and materials
- Experience in collaborating with trading partners to enhance supply performance
- Knowledge of advanced planning systems (e.g. Kinaxis, Logility, SAP IBP) in support of demand, supply, and monthly integrated planning
- Ability to construct business cases for the investment in an advanced planning system
- Excellent ability to facilitate discussions and negotiate mutually beneficial solutions when necessary
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Formal training and experience with Lean Sigma preferred
- APICS or comparable supply chain planning certifications preferred
- 4-year degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or an equivalent discipline
- Travel estimated to average 30-50%
