Director Supply Chain & Manufacturing Systems

The Product Line Leader for Supply Chain & Manufacturing Systems is accountable for the strategic direction delivery and lifecycle management of digital products that enable operational excellence across global Supply Chain and Manufacturing functions and for supporting the companys Digital Transformation initiative.

This role owns the product vision roadmap and execution for digital products supporting production logistics planning scheduling warehouse operations and quality processesincluding legacy systems such as Bricks Vix Replica StockSystem and Logcontrol as well as the go-forward MES platform Oracle WMS Cyberplan (planning tool) and ComplianceQuest (Quality Management System).

As a key member of the Enterprise IT leadership team the Product Line Leader partners with Global Process Owners Regional IT and Operations leadership to ensure technology capabilities align with business priorities foster standardization and scalability and advance both the digital manufacturing strategy and the broader Digital Transformation agenda of the company.

Key Duties

Product Strategy & Roadmap

• Define and own the long-term strategy and roadmap for Manufacturing and Supply Chain digital products including Bricks Vix the go-forward MES platform Replica StockSystem Logcontrol Oracle WMS Cyberplan and ComplianceQuest.
• Establish the product vision and architecture balancing operational continuity with transformation toward modern scalable and integrated solutions.
• Drive convergence harmonization and modernization of digital products across regions and business units.

Stakeholder Engagement & Business Partnership

• Serve as the strategic IT partner to Operations Supply Chain Manufacturing and Quality.
• Collaborate with Global Process Owners to translate business objectives into scalable digital products and capabilities ensuring alignment with enterprise goals.
• Partner with Regional IT and Business Relationship Managers to ensure global consistency and effective local adoption.

Product Delivery & Lifecycle Ownership

• Lead the full lifecycle of Manufacturing and Supply Chain digital productsfrom concept to delivery enhancement and retirementensuring reliability security and compliance.
• Oversee the performance and stability of all MES environments (Bricks Vix legacy systems and go-forward MES platform).
• Manage lifecycle and enhancement initiatives for WMS platforms (Replica StockSystem Logcontrol Oracle WMS) to optimize warehouse operations and integration with upstream/downstream systems.
• Oversee the ongoing evolution and effective utilization of Cyberplan and ComplianceQuest ensuring process efficiency quality compliance and business value.
• Manage relationships with technology vendors and partners supporting the digital product ecosystem.

Architecture Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Ensure digital products are secure scalable compliant and cost-effective.
• Promote simplification reuse of capabilities and phased retirement of legacy systems to reduce technical debt.

Leadership & Financial Management

• Lead and develop a global product team of internal and external contributors (Product Owners Business Analysts Solution Architects Developers Vendors).
• Manage product budgets investments and total cost of ownership ensuring transparency and measurable value realization.
• Foster agile ways of working a product-centric culture and a mindset of continuous improvement.

Qualification and Experience Required:

• 15+ years of experience in IT supporting Manufacturing or Supply Chain digital products.
• Proven experience with MES WMS Planning and Quality systems.
• Strong track record delivering large-scale manufacturing and supply chain system transformations and driving standardization across multiple plants or regions.
• Excellent stakeholder management at executive and operational levels.
• Experience working within agile and product-centric operating models.
• Experience in complex multi-region manufacturing organizations.

Preferred:

• Knowledge of PLM APS and connected factory digital products.
• Familiarity with Industry 4.0 technologies and integration with enterprise data and analytics platforms.
• Background in industrial electronics or similar manufacturing environments.

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