Job responsibilities

- Supports the design & deployment of the Kinaxis solution across Eaton, based on Business requirements while maximizing solution standardization across the enterprise; collaborates with other Kinaxis CoE Process Leads and supports Eaton businesses to fully understand and prioritize requirements.

- Acts as gatekeeper on the central governance board for key functionalities, helps formalize requirements and manage improvement pipeline over-time
- Partner with business stakeholders to understand solution pain points, troubleshoot complex planning issues, standardize wherever possible, and propose long term solutions.
- Active leadership role in Solution Design for MTO, MTS, CTO, ETO global templates - active participation in the implementation cycle with each Eaton business in scope
- Develops playbooks and best practice documentation for the processes in scope, and shares with business users and super users
- Manages ongoing training sessions, "show and tell" across businesses to ensure end-users of Kinaxis are able to run their processes efficiently and reinforce process adherence
- Sits on Global Design Board acting as gatekeeper to ensure standardization of key design decisions in the end-to-end planning process.
- Helps prioritize requests, confirm requirements, make recommendations, and develop/enhance processes using best practice solutions
- Support training efforts with sites that are either already live with Kinaxis or just starting their deployment, including functionality deep dive
- Helps build a community of supply chain planning professionals operating under the Kinaxis enterprise solution design.
- Plays back solution to the bigger user community within Eaton and ensures training and solution consistency
- Supports fit-gap analysis for new businesses, understand user stories and work with other CoE Process leads on long-term solution design.

- Expect 10-25% travel (both domestic and international) as determined by the business' needs.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business Analytics, or equivalent.
• 7 + years minimum in Supply Chain Planning or Operations Management (Demand Planning, Supply & Capacity Planning, Production Planning, Materials Management, Inventory management, Supplier Collaboration).
• Experience in implementing advanced planning tools such as Kinaxis RapidResponse, SAP APO or IBP, O9 solutions.
• Previous experience with Kinaxis Data model and Inbound/Outbound data integration options and best practices.
• Experience with ERP systems (SAP ECC, S4, Oracle preferred).
• No relocation benefit is being offered for this position.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in training users on Kinaxis
• Experience in large supply chain transformation projects
• RapidResponse Author Level 2 certification a plus
• Experience with driving user adoption for new implementations
• Deep knowledge of end-to-end supply chain processes from planning to execution & SIOP
• Supports the design of the RapidResponse solution across Eaton, based on Business requirements while maximizing solution standardization across the enterprise;
• As a Process Lead, validates which requirements will be prioritized during Sprints/testing sequences.
• Digital skills to help build a supply chain that is collaborative and connected with advanced solving capabilities.
• Proven ability in authoring business processes: ability to translate high-level business requirements into functional requirements.
• Experience in Project Management, preferably with Agile Methodology or Scrum Framework.

The application window for this position is anticipated to close on 10/14/24 or later.

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