As an IT Solutions Architect, at Advanced Planning, you will be accountable for driving the design, development, and integration of Production Planning solutions and associated applications.
Responsibilities :
- Provide leadership in functional design and implementation and help with production planning applications.
- Perform deep data to translate complex business information to actionable system activities; recommend best practices; and present associated technical process components.
- Operate as a credible IT thought principal for Supply Chain Planning business functions.
- Work with key business stakeholders to evaluate requirements and assess the impact of use cases, to ensure the solution will produce desired business outcomes.
- Investigate, research, and evaluate new applications and technologies and application integrations that will improve business productivity.
- Identify gaps between the current and future state of business processes and help in prioritizing opportunities to improve processes through the usage of the Business capability matrix (BCM).
- Identify and participate in the prioritization of business capabilities and act as a springboard for building mature and scalable processes.
- Ensure that solutions designed by analysts are scalable and in sync with business needs.
- Coaches other team members with design and thought leadership to achieve organizational goals.
- Interact on a day-to-day basis with other analysts, business leadership, SME and IT team members to help business operations and drive change management.
- Facilitate change management and transition to future state working with various stakeholders.
Qualifications :
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, information systems or related field, or equivalent work experience is required.
- Minimum 12+ years of Implementing Production Planning and other related planning solutions is required.
- Experience implementing Production Planning solutions (SAP PP/DS) in a medical device or high-tech manufacturing industry is required.
- In-depth experience in SAP – Production Planning and Detail Scheduling capabilities - interactive production planning, Detailed scheduling, Pegging, Production Planning table, Planning board, constraint-based planning and multilevel scheduling and sequencing is required.
- In-depth knowledge of business processes in the areas of Demand/Supply Planning, Capacity Planning, Distribution planning and Service planning are required.
- Experience with E2E Supply Chain processes (e.g., Procurement, Manufacturing, Logistics, Inventory Management) is desired.
- Experience in medical device manufacturing or life sciences industry is preferred.
- Excellent communication skills to present complex ideas and concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Exceptional social skills; demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of team members at all levels of the organization.
