Position Purpose
You'll direct the creation of value through supply chain applications through quality, performance, and value-driven governance, thus aligning the supply chain platforms function across the business to promote and facilitate optimisation, stability, security, and efficiency. We use elements of both the Blue Yonder and JDA product suite in this area, so it is essential that you have prior exposure to these platforms. You'll be responsible for management of Brambles supply chain technologies and teams as well as knowledge of external market innovation in the function.
As part of this role, the Supply Chain Platforms Lead is accountable for the day-to-day execution of platform services including development, data governance, platform support, and strategic direction across the Brambles landscape. The role will be accountable for the evaluation and monitoring of all supply chain services required, linking the business benefits created by resilient, responsive, and stable platform usage consumed by a growing Brambles global business user base. In addition, you'll be accountable to collaborate with the wider TS organization (primarily the Supply Chain Programme function) on portfolio demand and delivery performance metrics. You'll maintain, incorporate, and provide facilitation of governance methods, standards, and principles across all processes and capabilities relative to supply chain platforms. Governance processes and practices include as a minimum: supply chain service management, vendor selection and management, risk management, supply chain roadmap and platform management (upgrades and modernization), service catalogue, project support, and reporting.
Key Accountabilities
Provide strong leadership and direction by setting clear objectives and priorities with alignment with the Supply Chain Programme function by defining supply chain platform services, strategies, and roadmaps and communicating to applicable supply chain audiences. Constructively partner with functional business leadership and other key stakeholders to shape strategy, identify opportunities, leverage industry trends, develop, deliver and implement value-added solutions that drive financial effectiveness, simplification and/or improve supply chain services. Develop delivery best practices and principles, and a culture of service excellence across Technology Services, Data & Digital, Supply Chain, and the wider organisation. Advise and provide direction of performance measurement metrics to support the operational objectives of existing and new supply chain platform services. Provide strong technical coaching while influencing global technology adoption. Drive and enable a strong partnership across all platform/product support and development teams within, and external to, Technology Services ensuring applications are consistent, scalable, and secure.
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