Description

Who We Are

At Kenvue, we realize the extraordinary power of everyday care. Built on over a century of heritage and rooted in science, we're the house of iconic brands - including NEUTROGENA®, AVEENO®, TYLENOL®, LISTERINE®, JOHNSON'S® and BAND-AID® that you already know and love. Science is our passion; care is our talent. Our global team is made by 22, 000 diverse and brilliant people, passionate about insights, innovation and committed to deliver the best products to our customers. With expertise and empathy, being a Kenvuer means to have the power to impact life of millions of people every day. We put people first, care fiercely, earn trust with science and solve with courage - and have brilliant opportunities waiting for you! Join us in shaping our future-and yours.

PURPOSE OF POSITION

This position serves as the regional Warehousing and Distribution COE, responsible to strengthen functional expertise in strategic areas and improve operational capabilities, efficiency & excellence.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead all regional Deliver excellence programmes across the Deliver CoE
• Define business process standards, develop and execute on clear strategy and outline best practices to improve cost/efficiency/service
• Define and execute regional process capability roadmap and solution deployments
• Define and implement technology and digitalization solutions to support process capability maturity.
• Support regional Deliver leadership in prioritizing investment in relevant areas to reach best in class performance
• Act as escalation point to rapidly address critical process issues
• Strengthen Continuous Improvement capabilities and culture. Lead JJOS (lean methodology) opportunity implementations for the region and drive business excellence throughout distribution
• Identify and champion a talent development strategy (People Strategy) for high potential and high performing talent and design the organizational roadmap
• Drive a culture of Safety & Compliance

Responsible for the following two pillars:

1. Warehousing and Distribution COE

• Design, Develop and Deploy Digitalization solutions to support cost / service improvement trade-off opportunities.

• Provide Logistics Tendering Support for 3PL solutioning, warehousing and operational design.

• Own warehouse transition playbook and transition project governance

• Technology ownership and solutioning across W& D (eg WMS/TMS etc)

• Continuous improvement culture maturity and lead LEAN programme deployments.

• Identify, pilot and scale high impact engineering and automation/robotic solutions for the region (eg voice pick, AGV, etc)

2. Supplier Relationship Management and Warehouse Transitions

• Manage the regional Supplier Relationship management program that promotes; supplier collaboration, thought leadership, bench-marking, innovation, and best-practice sharing.

• Provide Logistics Tendering Support for 3PL solutioning, warehousing and operational design.

• Manage warehouse transition playbook, transition/startup project governance and ensure all transitions are executed successfully.

Qualifications

EXPERIENCE AND FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES:

• Education and/or additional training: BA in Logistics/Supply Chain/Business required; Advanced degree like MA and MBA preferred.

• Lean/Six Sigma Certified, with a proven track record of driving continuous improvement programs and culture.

• Min. 10 years in end-to-end supply chain related disciplines and a minimum of 5 years demonstrated direct people management experience is required.

• Deep expertise across core Order to Cash processes, with strong knowledge of transportation and Warehouse operational processes and systems (SAP, WMS, TMS etc)

• Previous experience managing warehousing operations preferred.

• Strong understanding of SAP processes in order-to-cash and procure-to-pay modules (SD/MM)

• Strong experience/understanding of process design, standards definition and implementation and building best practices in Operations efficiency

• Proven track record of delivering cost savings and service improvement from data driven insights.

• Experience in designing and deploying digitalization solutions for cost/service visibility.

• Strong Warehouse transition experience demonstrated from leading multiple warehouse transition projects

• Successfully lead multiple large scale / complex projects covering multiple markets, experienced with project management methodologies (eg, PMI/PMP, Prince2, FPX etc)

• Strong Customer focused orientation and pro-active attitude

• Experienced supplier management, with demonstrated cases of strong negotiation and influence to deliver

• Warehouse tendering support experience, including solution and facility design, partner negotiation, transition planning and issue management.

• Proficient understanding of supplier contracts, contract/legal clauses, and experience in mitigating contractual issues with suppliers.

• Track record of developing and building diverse, high-performance teams with a strong sense of mission, capable of navigating matrix organizations

• Skills to build an organization embracing a culture of functional excellence and continuous improvement

• E2E mindset and collaborative, influence-based leadership approach

• Ability to promote a vision and drive change to transform organizations, via strong engagement/communication

• Highly skilled communicator with demonstrated ability to synthesize large quantities of information and present cogent recommendations

• Highly collaborative and influential. Ability to work regionally and globally, across businesses units and functions, building strong partnerships internally and externally with strong customer focus.

Kenvue is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.