Supply Chain Optimization Expert

Job Description

Role: Subject Matter Expert, Supply Chain Process Management

Exp: 8yrs

Location: Hyderabad

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The Subject Matter Expert, Supply Chain Process Management will be based in Hyderabad, India. In this position, you will report to the Manager, Process Excellence. Watch “Culture is our Passion” to learn more about us.

We are looking for someone who demonstrates:

• Passionate drive to innovate and create
• Integrity to the core
• Enthusiastic customer focus
• Consistent interactive teamwork
• Desire for continuous improvement and top performance.

Here is a glimpse of what you will do:

• Write and maintain clear, concise Standard operating procedures (SOPs), and process flow diagrams, user stories and business requirements documents (BRDs).
• Communicate changes and enhancements in business requirements to cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment and understanding.
• Review and validate test cases and perform user acceptance testing (UAT) to ensure deliverables meet business needs.
• Research and analyze existing business processes and procedures to identify improvement opportunities.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives through process optimization, digitalization, and automation (including RPA).
• Actively engage with stakeholders across the business, providing insights and facilitating change management activities.
• Utilize Lean Six Sigma and other continuous improvement techniques to reduce cycle times, cut costs, and eliminate non-value-added activities.
• Lead by example with high integrity, creating a culture of high performance and accountability.
• Prepare and deliver presentations to executive leadership, clearly articulating business cases and change roadmaps.
• Maintain and update process documentation to reflect current practices and changes.

Here is some of what you will need (required):

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain or related field. An equivalent combination of education, training, and experience may be considered. Master’s degree in business administration (MBA) – preferred.
• Min 8 years of relevant experience in planning/designing process improvements and automation, including quantitative description of benefits/KPIs.
• Experience of working in Business Process Analysis/ Business Process Management projects in Supply chain Sourcing domain with strong in concepts such as process waste, lean background, general processes
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• Proven track record of capturing and analyzing large amounts of data at a macro and micro level.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with success in working in a fast-paced environment with data ambiguity.
• High degree of autonomy and accountability for results.
• Experience with ERP Systems (preferably NetSuite), Data visualizing tools (i.E., PowerBI and/or other data visualization tools
• Experience in process improvements tools (lean, Six Sigma, BPM.Etc..).

Here are a few of our preferred experiences

• Knowing how to use formulas in Excel is required. VBA macro skills are required.
• Knowledge in SQL and PowerBI or other BI tools is preferred.

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