As part of Eaton's supply chain digital transformation, we are seeking a highly motivated expert contributor to join our Kinaxis CoE team as Global Process Lead (user experience), with solid Kinaxis experience - to help drive the deployment of best-in class advanced planning solution across the Enterprise and help end-users adopt the solution through training and process reinforcement.
Eaton is deploying the Kinaxis end-to-end concurrent planning solution across all businesses to plan and deliver materials, inventory and factory / supplier capacity across the end-to-end supply chain in order to meet customer expectations and achieve profitable sales growth.
The Process Lead / User experience will work with SCM, Operations and IT teams across businesses, as well as with other Process Leads on the Kinaxis CoE to define and harmonize long-term planning decisions, with excellent problem-solving skills, experience interfacing with users and documenting business processes, and the ability to influence others and foster teamwork.

In this function you will:
• 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:

Required (Basic) Qualifications:
• Bachelors Degree from an accredited institution required.
• Minimum 7 years in Supply Chain Planning or Operations Management (Demand Planning, Supply & Capacity Planning, Production Planning, Materials Management, Inventory management, Supplier Collaboration).
• Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and within the future
Preferred qualifications:
• 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).
• Experience in large supply chain transformation projects.
• Experience with driving user adoption for new implementations.
• Deep knowledge of end-to-end supply chain processes from planning to execution & SIOP
Position Criteria:
• 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 12.20.2024

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