GCM Project Management

We are seeking a GCM Project Management professional to join our team.

Job Description:

The successful candidate will be responsible for planning, scheduling, and coordinating demand/supply management, business processes, and manufacturing/delivery of products and services.

Responsibilities:

• Leads a broad range of complex supply chain processes, such as Supplier selection, onboarding, collaboration & management, supplier negotiation and costing, Contract management etc.
• Identifies opportunities for process improvement and leads/develops recommendations and provides insight for management.
• Collaborates with Commodity Management and Manufacturing Operations teams to gather, understand and document requirements and ensure solutions meet the requirements with a simple and intuitive user experience.
• Analyzes large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns on commodity and manufacturing market trends, pricing strategies, supplier selection and performance management.
• Independently executes complex demand and supply matching activities, connecting planning to execution, and identifying issues and their impact.
• Works cross-functionally to prioritize backlog.
• Leads cross-functional regional and global business unit planning teams to maintain and enhance current business processes.
• Defines and reviews performance metrics on a regular basis, identifying opportunities for improvement actions to address.
• Contributes to priority projects by adding creative insights and developing recommendations.
• Analyses vast amounts of data, creates actionable plans to address issues and drive issues to resolutions.
• Project manages sourcing projects and works with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure successful completion of the project.
• Documents processes and related evidence of process adherence, to support TL9K audits.
• Leads change management, communications, training, user adoption, and business readiness activities associated with sourcing process and technology transformations.
• Presents information using data visualization techniques.
• Proposes solutions and strategies to business challenges.
• Leads sourcing systems strategy, deployment, enhancement, governance, and integration across platforms such as SAP, Ariba, Smart Contracts, supplier portals, reporting platforms, and future digital sourcing solutions.
• Establishes and maintains governance for supplier, contract, and material master data, ensuring data quality, accuracy, compliance, and alignment across enterprise systems.
• Coordinates testing, validation, user acceptance testing (UAT), and deployment readiness activities to ensure successful delivery of sourcing systems and process enhancements.
• Supports mergers, acquisitions, and business integrations through process harmonization, tool consolidation, data alignment, reporting standardization, and organizational change initiatives.
• Defines, maintains, and enforces sourcing policies, governance frameworks, operational controls, audit readiness activities, and compliance requirements across the sourcing organization.
• Manages strategic sourcing programs and transformation initiatives, including roadmap development, executive reporting, milestone tracking, resource planning, and benefits realization.
• Works with cross-functional teams to drive advanced analytics, AI/ML, predictive modeling, and intelligent automation initiatives to improve sourcing decisions, supplier management, risk mitigation, cost optimization, and operational efficiency.

Education and Experience Required:

• Typically 6-10 years of experience in a supply chain function with a solid understanding of Supply Chain and Product Costing processes.
• Demonstrated ability in a data or business analyst role.
• Experience in data mining, knowledge of SQL, Business Objects, Agile, SAP, Oracle preferred.
• Experience using business intelligence and visualization tools such as Tableau, PowerBI.
• First-level university degree or equivalent experience in Supply Chain Operations, Project management, Computer Science, Engineering, Business management; advanced university degree preferred.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Excellent understanding of supply chain processes (plan, source, make deliver).
• Identifies cutting-edge analytical tools, models, and methods for making key business decisions.
• Understanding of artificial intelligence and machine-learning concepts.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills; mastery in English and local language.
• Excellent internal and external relationship management skills.
• Strong analytics background with extensive knowledge and understanding of how to analyze business problems using Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Excel, PowerPoint, etc.), statistical analysis, and financial modeling.
• Problem-solving proficiency.
• Very strong project management skills, with capability to manage cross-functional teams in multiple geographies.
• Strong business acumen and technical knowledge within area of responsibility.
• Ability to communicate data insights in appropriate detail to all levels of the organization.
• Business Process Design and Re-engineering.
• Systems Integration and Testing.
• Program and Portfolio Management.