.Associate Director Global Supply Chain – GPO Materials Planning Location: Madrid, Community of Madrid, ES We're looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world. Organization Overview: The Global Supply Chain Excellence organization focuses on standardization of business processes by emphasizing lean methodologies and master data management while interfacing with relevant key stakeholders including sites/networks, MQ IT, and HR business partners. Role Overview: The Associate Director Global Supply Chain – Materials Planning serves as the business process owner for Lilly's global warehousing processes. Responsibilities include defining and documenting global business processes, identifying and driving improvements, governing execution of the business processes, ensuring the tools and organization are capable, and supporting the capabilities in the organization through appropriate guidance and training. The GPO - Materials Planning will be reporting to the Associate Director - Supply Chain Global Business Process Owner E2E. Responsibilities: Define and document the Materials Planning business process steps. Design the process flow, key success measures, and interaction with other processes. Implement transformational or continuous improvement changes to the process. Benchmark the process amongst industry peers. Hand over the process to global and local Materials Planning teams in the business. Train users on the business process. Strategy: Define global business processes for Materials Planning operations across all manufacturing networks (API, parenteral, and dry products). Develop a strategic vision for the business process in line with overall business objectives. Make recommendations for Materials Planning process development and improvement on behalf of the stakeholders. Make decisions to align processes, organizational roles, and technology. Process Governance: Form a companywide strategic roadmap to improve Materials Planning process maturity. Align strategic roadmap with key stakeholders across functions, hierarchy, and different parts of the business. Train users on business processes. Process Design: Serve as an expert and key team member in major process Global Supply Chain design changes. Document and map the global business process. Capture and analyze business requirements and translate these into standardized business processes, including definitions, templates, data sources, technology roadmap, and roles and responsibilities. Development of key output and KPI requirements that support the Materials Planning process. Enable process design through technology and analytics. Measurement and Continuous Improvement: Track benefits and improvement into the business. Channel continuous improvement ideas and select suitable ones to turn into projects. Ensure the Materials Planning review processes happen on time