Global Planning & Fulfillment Solution Manager

Job Description

The Global Planning & Fulfillment Solution Manager works with stakeholders within the GP&F Services, across Supply Chain, and across Cisco organizations to align strategic goals and transformation programs with the architectural changes required to deliver the business strategy by:

üDeveloping solutions, business process flows, business requirements documentation, and user stories to enable capabilities

üPerforming detailed analysis to validate business cases

üBuilding models by pulling data from multiple sources and to show conceptual views of a solution

üMapping data and aligning on data definitions across functions

üFacilitating meetings to drive transformation alignment across diverse user groups

üUnderstanding and documenting the business strategy and business outcomes

üTranslating the business strategy into capability requirements

üBuilding and aligning capability roadmaps and defining interdependencies

üAligning transformation portfolio priorities across GP&F services

üDriving change management for alignment and adoption within and across services for solutions

üCreating, enabling, and evolving Role Based Training

Job Skills

·A broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance

·The ability to recognize structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies and cross-silo redundancies

·The ability to assimilate and correlate abstract concepts, disconnected programs, and changes in the business environment to articulate their collective relevance to the organization and to high-priority business issues

·Extensive experience planning and deploying both business and IT initiatives

·Experience modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques

·Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations

·The ability to act as liaison conveying strategy, business requirements, and information needs of the business to IT teams and cross functional stakeholders.

·Team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus

·Exceptional analytical skills with the ability to create models, mock ups, and solution proposals by usingSQL, R, excel macros, and other methods

·Strong situational analysis and decision making abilities

Qualifications

·Minimum of 10-12 years of supply chain experience with expertise in two or more of the following disciplines (Demand Planning, Scheduling, Backlog Mgt, S&OP, Integrated Business Planning, NPI Planning, Co-Planning, Inventory Planning, and/or Financial Planning & Analysis

·5+ years of experience with ERP application enablement & transformation (MRP, ATP, Demand Planning, Inventory Planning, Financial Planning,)

·3+ years of project/program management experience

·APICS & Six Sigma Green Belt certifications preferred

·Degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or Industrial Engineering preferred