Global Process Lead - Kinaxis CoE

What you’ll do:

Eaton’s Corporate Sector is currently seeking a Global Process Lead Kinaxis CoE to join our team. This position is eligible for a hybrid work set up if candidates lives within 50 miles of Beachwood, OH  location. Position is eligible for a remote work setup in the U.S. if not in the geographical area of Beachwood, OH.
Position Overview:
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, with solid Kinaxis experience  – to help drive the deployment of best-in class advanced planning processes across the Enterprise and help end-users adopt the their new planning software through training and process reinforcement.
Eaton is deploying Kinaxis Maestro globally across all businesses, to optimize our end-to-end planning efficiencies,  in order to meet customer expectations and achieve profitable sales growth. 
The Process Lead 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:
•    Support the design & deployment of the Kinaxis solution across Eaton, based on Business requirements while maximizing solution standardization across the enterprise; collaborate with other Kinaxis CoE Process Leads and support Eaton businesses to fully understand and prioritize requirements. 
•    Act as gatekeeper on the central governance board for key functionalities, help formalize requirements and manage the global 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
•    Develop playbooks and best practice documentation for the processes in scope, and share with business users and super users
•    Manage ongoing training sessions, show and tell across businesses to ensure end-users of Kinaxis Maestro are able to run their processes efficiently and reinforce process adherence
•    Sit on the Global Design Board acting as gatekeeper to ensure standardization of key design decisions in the end-to-end planning process.
•    Help 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 Maestro or just starting their deployment, including functionality deep dive
•    Help build a community of supply chain planning professionals operating under the Kinaxis enterprise solution design.
•    Play back solution to the bigger user community within Eaton and ensure training and solution consistency
•    Support 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 (SIOP, Demand Planning, Supply & Capacity Planning, Production Planning, Materials Management, Inventory management, Supplier Collaboration).
•    Minimum of 5 years of experience working with or implementing advanced planning tools such as Kinaxis Maestro or O9 solutions.
•    Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and within the future
Preferred qualifications:
•    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 Maestro 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.
•    Excellent communication skills, ability to articulate & simplify complex functional use cases and conduct end user training efficiently
•    Ability to troubleshoot planning results through Kinaxis data and parameter evaluation