RESPONSIBILITIES

Distribution |  LOGISTICS/SUPPLY  CHAIN  |  DISTRIBUTION/TRANSPORTATION 

Lead development and implementation of distribution and transportation processes and procedures; development of models for planning of distribution and transportation activities.

Leadership and Direction | GENERAL | LEADERSHIP AND SUPERVISION

Communicate the function's strategy and its relationship to the organization's mission, vision and values; clarify the actions needed to implement it within the area of responsibility; motivate people to commit to these and to doing extraordinary things to achieve the organization's business goals.

Operations Management | GENERAL | LEADERSHIP AND SUPERVISION

Support the overall organizational strategy by developing and delivering operational plans and outcomes for a large portion of the business.

Data and Analytics Strategy | ANALYTICS AND DATA SCIENCE | DATA SCIENCE

Create and execute a long-term strategy for leveraging data and analytics as a key business enabler and competitive differentiator across the business.

Business Process/Model Rethink | BUSINESS PERFORMANCE AND PROCESS TRANSFORMATION | BUSINESS PERFORMANCE AND PROCESS TRANSFORMATION

Work with senior leaders to rethink the business model for a line of business and to implement innovative disruptions with the potential to impact its long-term strategy.

Strategy Formation and Implementation | STRATEGIC OR CORPORATE PLANNING | STRATEGIC OR CORPORATE PLANNING

Develop the strategy for a significant area of responsibility such as a function, anticipating complex issues, challenges and opportunities. Ensure the strategy is successfully implemented and meets medium-term business needs.

Innovation Implementation and Pipeline Management |  GENERAL  |  INNOVATION

Design shelter for promising projects, setting resource allocation processes (portfolio, capital expenditures, budgeting) to take potentially disruptive innovations forward from the seed stage to the market.

S&OP | CUSTOM

Roles at this level are taking strategic direction and leading the execution for a significant area of responsibility

e.g. a function. - Strategic implementation; invent

Stakeholder Engagement |  GENERAL  |  COMMUNICATION/RELATIONSHIPS 

Identify and manage stakeholders up to top management level, finding out their needs/issues/concerns and reacting to these by leading and coordinating the development of stakeholder engagement plans to support the communication of business information and decisions.

SKILLS

Adaptive Mindset

Operates as a recognized expert to shift into and out of a mental mindsets associated with assessing the facts and circumstances of the current situation and/or environment and making the appropriate/innovative adjustments to thinking and work habits to thrive in any scenario. Typically known as a subject matter authority.

Costing and Budgeting

Acts as the organizational authority and established expert on costing, budgeting and finance tasks.

Data Collection and Analysis

Acts as the organizational authority and established expert on analyzing data trends for use in reports to help guide decision making.

Logistics

Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to act independently while guiding and training others on ensuring that production plant, equipment and materials are moved and stored in the best way possible.

Negotiation

Negotiates as the organizational authority and established expert to help the organization by obtaining consensus between two or more internal or external parties who may have different interests.

Risk Management

Applies expertise to act as the organizational authority on identifying, assessing, prioritizing and managing risks.

Verbal Communication

Acts with expertise as the organization's authority on using clear and effective verbal communications skills to express ideas, request actions and formulate plans or policies.

Action Planning

Applies expertise to act as the organizational authority on developing appropriate plans or performing necessary actions based on recommendations and requirements.

Planning and Organizing

Uses expertise to act as organizational authority on planning, organizing, prioritizing and overseeing activities to efficiently meet business objectives.

Strategic Planning

Uses expertise to act as organizational authority on strategic planning.

Presentation skills

Uses expertise to act as the organizational authority on communicating with other people by speaking in a clear, concise and compelling manner.