VP, Supply Chain Digital Readiness

The VP, Global Supply Chain Digital Readiness, is a critical member of both our Global Supply Chain & Digital Leadership teams with a key purpose to design and lead the implementation and optimization of Brambles supply chain infrastructure to enable value from our portfolio of digital initiatives across our plant network.

The VP, Supply Chain Readiness will lead and orchestrate the Brambles Supply Chain organization for asset serialization, be responsible for the supply chain delivery of CD/TD products to existing countries and enabling scaling into new geographies as well as creating a scalable model for supporting operations in deployment of devices for digital customer solutions. The position acts as an interface between the R&D Digital team, Engineering, Logistics, Safety, Commercial teams, Technology Services and Plant Operations to develop a roll out plan with clear roles and responsibilities and decision making in addition to being the custodian of the 4-year cost leadership plan.

Scope

The programme will cross the Brambles group and regions, scope will initially be Europe and USA. The role will prepare the supply chain organisations for digitisation at a scale >300m assets, >300 services, > 1bn asset deliveries / collections and impacting over 10k personnel.

Key Accountabilities

• Design supply chain standard processes to enable asset digitisation, safely and sustainably.
• Understand the business objectives and goals for the digital transformation of Brambles, define the baselines, impacts, enablers, opportunities and change management plan to create a multi-year roadmap to prepare the Brambles supply chains in its scale up plan.
• Leading business impact assessments, identifying risks and issues that may affect current and future supply chain roles, processes and systems and create business readiness plan.
• Ensure resourcing and capability needs of SC are met through scale up.
• Developing and maintaining the stakeholder management plan, conducting continuous stakeholder analysis, and working cross functionally to align on strategy and plans in order to drive digital integration.
• Collaborate closely with Brambles Digital and Agile Supply Chain teams to ensure strategic alignment and successful scale up preparations.
• Work with Engineering to drive the design and engineering processes to ensure optimum asset instrumentation and placement. Identify automation solutions and efficiency opportunities.
• Ensure the S+ scale up team has the right skills and resource to provide hands on support to the plants and the technical skills to support the partner functions.
• Own the supply chain asset digitisation implementation, communication and change plan to enable delivery of the asset digitisation roadmap.
• Ensure the optimisation of processes to maximise effectiveness and efficiency, this includes feedback loops to IT, engineering and digital teams to drive development of new technology and automation.
• Work with global supply chain team to ensure asset digitisation is embedded and synchronised and future proofed, with the supply chain digitisation vision and strategy.

Experience and Qualifications

• Progressive experience within a global Supply Chain, to include experience in a technical/digital industry or technology/digital focused transformation type role, managing global initiatives to include change management at scale.
• Proven track record of successfully creating and delivering a change agenda in supply chain functions.
• Substantial experience across a range of management areas at a senior level, including exposure to digital transformation.
• Demonstrated ability to lead organizational strategic planning and to implement digital processes that integrate business planning objectives into accountable outcomes.
• Experience in manufacturing excellence or logistics optimization functions.
• Systems and process transformation experience in a manufacturing or logistics context.
• Proven ability to bring together multiple stakeholders to codesign and collaboratively deliver a change plan.
• Leadership experience with a passion for developing people.

About the person

• Always win as a team approach.
• Collaborate across the global matrix.
• Conceptual and strategic thinking with advanced problem-solving and decision-making skills, and strong positive influencing skills.
• Superb interpersonal skills, experience leading an innovative team and have a drive for forward thinking.
• An inspiring leadership style that aligns with the digital team vision and values, which is naturally collaborative, is essential to the successful performance of this role.