Value Chain Business Partner

Job Description
**S&S Value Chain Business Partner (VCBP) Job **Description/Suitability** Model**
The S&S Value Chain Business Partner is member of the S&S Center of Excellence (COE) and is responsible for developing and implementing global value chain strategies for supported business units. This includes analyzing, planning, overseeing and leading both regional and global projects from ideation through to completion across ISC functions to achieve the desired functional goals and business outcomes. This value chain leadership role requires building relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders, most often while managing several projects and processes simultaneously. The S&S Value Chain Business Partner leads, influences, and coordinate peers, stakeholders, and team members in pursuit of executing the value chain strategy and delivering results.
**Responsibilities**
- Determine the global value chain strategy to achieve desired business outcomes and functional objectives through partnering across all ISC functions (Materials, SSO, Operations, Logistics, Customer Care) and business units. Provides direction and insights to stakeholders and ISC leadership on the execution of value chain strategy in order to achieve optimal outcomes across all stakeholders.
- Create and maintain pipeline of productivity and improvement projects for the value chain in support TCO reduction, TOCT improvement, margin improvement, increased competitiveness, and risk mitigation. Push projects and potential opportunities to the proper ISC teams for execution.
- Partner with BU Engineering and global ISC resources to drive design for supply chain decisions.
- Identify resources needed to reach objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner, including people, capital, and technology.
- Develop and manage a detailed project schedules and work plan
- Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about strategy, adjustments, and progress against goals
- Develop, maintain, communicate, train, and audit standard work across the value chain as required
- Utilize industry best practices, techniques, and standards throughout entire project execution
- Monitor project progress and adjust as needed
- Measure process performance to identify areas for improvement
- Designing risk mitigation plans for specific product lines
- Optimizing and improving processes and the overall approach, building into standard work as necessary
**SKEE**
- 5-10 Years of Supply Chain Experience (Materials, Sourcing, Manufacturing, Logistics), with experience in leading diverse projects and teams through influence. APICS certification preferred.
- Understands the business planning cycle and can project the impact of supply chain performance on business outcomes. Demonstrates familiarity with strategic planning and business performance reviews and can support strategic planning through data and market analysis.
- Knowledgeable in project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices.
- Experience in complex negotiations. (contracts and other aspects that impact project)
- Demonstrated ability to effectively influence others to achieve a desired goal.
- Experienced in leading projects with global teams in a virtual environment.
- Strong presentation skills, with experience communicating to senior leadership level audiences.
- Bachelor’s degree: Engineering, Business, Supply Chain, or a related field.
**IPC**
- Ability to handle multiple projects of varying complexity concurrently
- Ability to prioritize tasks and resources to meet goals and business objectives
- Ability to prioritize and balance stakeholder needs and objectives against constraints.
- Develops strategic plans that support a 1-3 year value chain vision
- Understands upstream and downstream impacts of functional decision making on value chain performance and business results.
- Balances competing objectives/KPIs to optimize results across multiple functions
- Makes data driven decisions, acquires data and information needed to support decisions if not available to include conducting pilots as needed.
- Demonstrates agility in approach and methodology to reach objectives
- **Soft Skills - Temperament**
- Ability to effectively influence peers, stakeholders, and leadership
- Capacity to manage high stress situations
- Self-motivation & ability to motivate other people
- Accepts positive and constructive feedback in a manner the promotes performance and improvement. Provides specific, timely, and actionable feedback to others.
- Can build productive relationships across cultures, teams, and functions; demonstrates agility of approach.
- Is capable of being self-directed, requires mínimal oversight to reach objectives
- Holds self and others accountable to milestones, objectives, and agreements.

**Role Requirements**
- Travel, domestic and international, may be required to accomplish objectives and support global projects.
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