Planning Solution Architect

**What’s the role**

As a Solution Architect for Demand and Supply Planning you will play a critical role in ensuring the process core remains stable and efficient. You will have deep design and technical knowledge of current processes and tools, holds accountability for process and tool reliability, supports system-related implementation of major projects, and builds competency within the wider Lubricants America organization. This will have to be done while ensuring Lubricants drives towards best in class. You’ll thrive on working closely with global excellence teams on road map development while at the same time delivering on the ground solutions to meet evolving customer and business needs.

**What you’ll be doing**
- Collaborate with global solution architect community, lead super users, end users to embed and strengthen the understanding and execution of system process activities on the ground and strengthen the regional support model.
- Subject matter expert of demand and supply planning processes and tools
- Help the business deliver Change Request and IT change with value and timeliness in mind.
- Collaborate with regional counterparts and global excellence teams to remain connected to changes to tools and processes.
- Help drive process changes led by business strategy and business processes.

**What you bring**
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain, computer science, or a related field with minimum of 6 years of supply chain software tools experience
- Prior / current expertise in in Kinaxis
- Prior Supply Chain experience in addition planning tools is required.
- Expert Level Knowledge of demand and supply planning and interface with E2E supply chain/SAP is essential.
- Expertise in the design, documentation, and deployment of process along with continuous improvement mindset.
- Understanding of functional process deeply and how they integrate end to end successfully and efficiently.
- Assume responsibility across & outside the lubricants process area when it comes to end-to-end scenarios to ensure integration across all processes for critical business activities.
- Excellent people skills when it comes to implementation. You will inspire people to make changes that will have a direct impact on our commercial success. Furthermore, you will have:

- Excellent communication skills, interpersonal effectiveness, Ability to build a shared vision and influence other people at all levels within the organization.
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Ability to identify and respond quickly to changing priorities and multi-task.
- ** Willingness to work during US hours (Houston). The role will be based out of Bangalore to support the LSC network in the United States.**

**What we offer**

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.
- Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.
- Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.
- Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.
- Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.
- Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.
- Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.
- Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase - our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.
- Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.
- Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.
- Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and
- international teams.
- Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.

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**Who We Are**

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies, employing 103,000 people and with operations in more than 70 countries. We use advanced technologies and take an innovative approach as we seek to help the world build a sustainable energy future.

Shell is a customer-focused organisation, serving more than 1 million commercial and industrial customers, and around 33 million customers daily at more than 47,000 Shell-branded retail service stations.

**Our approach**

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