Value Chain Designer

**Career Area**:
Engineering

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Role Definition
Designs and implements new process or updates to existing processes to improve end to end value chain performance. Develop a network value-stream model that depicts current state value chain network and may compare to alternate network configurations (future state).

Responsibilities
- Analyzing the inbound, value add and outbound value chains to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Developing business cases and capability studies, recommending improvements to stakeholders.
- Implementing new and enhanced processes and tools and governing changes through collaboration across multiple workstreams to ensure alignment.
- Identifying process inefficiencies and wastes of time, money, materials, and energy.

Degree Requirement
Degree or equivalent experience desired

Skill Descriptors
Business Process Design: Knowledge of business process design; ability to develop appropriate techniques to re-examine key processes and focus on optimizing organizational performance.
Level Extensive Experience:

- Participates in the design and implementation of a supporting organizational structure.
- Redesigns or enhances business processes to meet regulatory requirements.
- Trains others to identify and implement required infrastructure to support specific processes.
- Leads a variety of types of business process design initiatives.
- Assesses potential implications of re-engineering for multiple functions or departments.
- Demonstrates mastery of re-engineering concepts, methods, and tools.

Business Process Improvement: Knowledge of business process improvement best practices and ability to use methods for identifying, evaluating, introducing and implementing more efficient approaches to performing business related activities.
Level Extensive Experience:

- Analyzes business processes, identifies alternative solutions to outdated processes and assesses their feasibility.
- Evaluates financial, cultural, technological and other factors that need to be addressed.
- Recommends new approaches that seek the use of advanced technology.
- Establishes requirements for large changes in the overall mission, roles, responsibilities and processes necessary to make business improvements.
- Participates in defining organizational strategic goals and purposes; defines how to gather and keep customers.
- Works to overcome BPI resistance from managers, the labor force and other groups.

Process Management: Knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques; ability to understand, monitor, update, control, or enhance existing business or work processes.
Level Extensive Experience:

- Helps others learn the tools and techniques for process value analysis.
- Carries out process evaluation, diagnosis, and optimization.
- Demonstrates a thorough understanding of a major process flow, its components and issues.
- Synchronizes the efforts of, and resource requirements for, several teams within a process.
- Makes the business case for new processes, including their cost-benefit ratios.
- Possesses knowledge of tools and techniques for designing and implementing new processes.

Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.
Level Extensive Experience:

- Seeks discrepancies and inconsistencies in available information; explains variances.
- Organizes and prioritizes the sequence of steps to be taken to remedy the situation.
- Identifies many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research.
- Quantifies the costs, benefits, risks and chances for success before recommending a course of action.
- Approaches a complex problem by breaking it down into its component parts.
- Chooses among a diverse set of analytical tools according to the nature of the situation.

Level Extensive Experience:

- Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.
- Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
- Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.
- Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.
- Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.
- Maintains focus on the topic at hand.

Level Extensive Experience:

- Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.
- Organizes potential problem sol