Description

Position Purpose

You'll direct the creation of value through supply chain applications through quality, performance and value-driven governance thus aligning the supply chain platforms function across the business to promote and facilitate optimisation, stability, security, and efficiency.

We use elements of both the Blue Yonder and JDA product suite in this area, so it is essential that you have prior exposure to these platforms.

You'll be responsible for management of Brambles supply chain technologies and teams as well as knowledge of external market innovation in the function. As part of this role, the Supply Chain Platforms Lead is accountable for the day-to-day execution of platform services including development, data governance, platform support, and strategic direction across the Brambles landscape. The role will be accountable for the evaluation and monitoring of all supply chain services required, linking the business benefits created by resilient, responsive, and stable platform usage consumed by a growing Brambles global business user base. In addition, you'll be accountable to collaborate with the wider TS organization (primarily the Supply Chain Programme function) on portfolio demand and delivery performance metrics.

You'll maintain, incorporate, and provide facilitation of governance methods, standards, and principles across all processes and capabilities relative to supply chain platforms. These methods, standards and principles will be developed, adopted, and embedded by the wider platform, product, and analytics teams across all business units looking to integrate supply chain data with complimentary systems and people. Governance processes and practices include as a minimum : supply chain service management, vendor selection and management, risk management, supply chain roadmap and platform management (upgrades and modernization), service catalogue, project support, and reporting.

Key Accountabilities

• Provide strong leadership and direction by setting clear objectives and priorities with alignment with the Supply Chain Programme function by defining supply chain platform services, strategies, and roadmaps and communicating to applicable supply chain audiences.
• Constructively partners with functional business leadership and other key stakeholders to shape strategy, identify opportunities, leverage industry trends, develop, deliver and implement value-added solutions that drive financial effectiveness, simplification and / or and improve supply chain services.
• Develop delivery best practices and principles, and a culture of service excellence across Technology Services, Data & Digital, Supply Chain, and the wider organisation.
• Advise and provide direction of performance measurement metrics to support the operational objectives of existing and new supply chain platform services.
• Provide strong technical coaching while influencing global technology adoption.
• Drive and enable a strong partnership across all platform / product support and development teams within, and external to, Technology Services ensuring applications are consistent, scalable, and secure.
• Maintain and drive vendor / partner relationships at the highest levels through performance metrics and action plans.
• Act as the single point of contact and escalation point for incidents which run across supply chain platforms and own process improvement protocols post-major incidents ensuring process uplift where appropriate leveraging internal / external resources.
• Work collaboratively across platform teams and the various platform and product owners to identify the best areas for continuous improvement.
• Meet Brambles internal governance, policy / process requirements, (e.g., financial planning, procurement, internal audit, people, and policies).
• Develop an effective organisational structure in place which enables delivery of key initiatives.
• Recruit, develop, motivate, develop, and retain a technical proficient team through talent management, succession planning, and skill development.
• Develop and execute and effective risk framework for the supply chain platform.
• Successful delivery of initiative milestones on time, within budget, and to agreed success criteria.

Experience

Qualifications

Preferred Education

Bachelors

Preferred Level of Work Experience

More than 10 years

Remote Type

Hybrid Remote

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