Global Director D&A Product Management, E2E Supply Chain F/M/X

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1 year ago
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This job is with Mars, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly. Job Description: Global Director Data & Analytics Product Management, E2E Supply Chain Multiple locations: London-UK, Slough-UK, Veghel - NL, Aimargues, Strasbourg - FR Royal Canin is undergoing a significant Digital Transformation journey. Our ability to solve the most critical problems across Mars in a User Centric way through Data & Analytics is fundamental to our growth ambition and transformation. Significant early success in this journey, and the introduction of many critical foundational capabilities, means that we are looking to accelerate our ability to solve problems and ultimately drive value for Mars Inc. The opportunities are significant for Mars, and the opportunities for those working in this space are both hugely exciting and rewarding. Connecting and deriving break-through insight from our Royal Canin and Petcare data ecosystems, leveraging the rapidly growing world of external data to get closer to our customers and consumers than ever before, and unlocking efficiencies and automation across our End-To-End Supply Chain. Building on this momentum, we are recruiting a Director of D&A Product Management to join our Royal Canin Global Data & Analytics Team who will lead the Global End-To-End Supply Chain Data & Analytics agenda . What will be your key responsibilities? The Role The Global Director D&A Product Management will define and manage the Royal Canin Global End-To-End Supply Chain Data & Analytics Strategy, Vision and Roadmap and shape a fit-for-purpose capabilities-portfolio across the Division & in partnership with the Petcare Segment. Starting with key Operational & Supply Chain business problems and/or future-back capability needs, the Global Director D&A Product Management will interface with Global, Regional, Market Operations Leaders across Supply Chain, Manufacturing & Commercial to identify & shape the Analytics Product Portfolio including areas of opportunity, value articulation & prioritization of use-cases to meet the performance ambition that will create business value and advance the Royal Canin growth agenda. The job holder will be instrumental in helping to establish, support and reinforce the transformations needed to build a best-in-class data driven culture within Royal Canin as well as evangelizing a product-led mindset while fostering a new way of delivering Data & Analytics products for speed and maximum impact. This role will need to be in lockstep with the key transformational programmes such as EOS, OMP/Planning and SAP S4/ERP to understand the capabilities that may come and evolve and their impact on our data capture and analytical needs. Within this team, you will: Develop and nurture relationships across Royal Canin and the PetCare businesses ecosystem to ensure direct participation in the relevant strategic forums to shape, influence and articulate key opportunity areas and translating these into breakthrough solutions. Act as a change agent for shifting from project to product mindset, reframe the context for what data & advanced analytics is and how to unlock value through leveraging product development to solve business problems, and evangelize product lifecycle mindset to support product strategy and support through end of life. Partner with the Global & Regional Data & Analytics Leadership teams to ensure alignment and consistency in the creation of a Global roadmaps for the highest-impact analytical product areas as well as translate & frame business problems to guide the solve through applications of Data, Analytics & AI approaches and methodologies. Understand the key signature processes and strategic & operational decision-making forums to enable successful data & analytics products embedment and adoption by the business users. Act as a thought leader, changing expectations of 'what is possible' & an organizational coach ensuring that associates are skilled in the use of new products and capabilities.​ What are we looking for? Qualifications & Competencies Strategic inquiry to identify the underlying needs of Supply Chain, Manufacturing and Procurement stakeholders and influencing the organization to embrace new methods and technologies This role must "lead with problems, not tools" in an unbiased way to determine when appropriate to drive scaling as-is versus when to opportunistically evolve the Product to support increasing competitive advantage. Partner heavily with Operations leaders in the business, Product Delivery and Enablement functions, and with functional experts to define the unique value proposition for each Product. Work closely with end users of the analytics products to ensure positive end user experience to deliver on adoption and sustained business value. Technical breadth to identify and apply art-of-the-possible with Data, Analytics and AI & ensure knowledge and best practices sharing across segments to ensure reusability and improving analytical maturity Knowledge / Experience Strong track record of customer facing success and business acumen in working with teams to identify problems to solve, ideating on the art of the possible, and bringing possibilities to life Strength in business-to-science translation to enable partnering with business teams and technology teams in bringing analytics product ideas to life Analytics foundation - knowledgeable in both operations research and the data science domain Experience in delivery management of analytical products, or awareness of the drivers of complexity within delivery Practitioner experience in the Supply Chain & Operations domain highly preferred Experience advantageous in technology/source systems (SAP ERP, Azure, SQL, Hive, PowerBI, React) and deployment of Digital Twins Education & Professional Qualifications Batchelor's degree in Management, Business Administration, STEM subjects, or related field. Master's level advantageous. Overall, 10-15 years of experience; Minimum 5 years of experience in Data & Analytics Minimum 2 years of Analytics experience in the CPG industry What can you expect from Mars? Work with over 140,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles. Join a purpose driven company, where we're striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today. Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University. An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus. LI-MB-1 TBDDT Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.

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