Job Description
Annual Wage Range: $172,216.00 - $236,797.00
Other Compensation: Eligibility for the Short-Term Incentive program and other applicable bonuses
Benefits:U.S. Employee Benefits Summary (grace.com)
Grace, a Standard Industries company, is a leading global supplier of catalysts, engineered materials and fine chemicals. We provide innovative products, technologies and services which our customers use to manufacture everyday products like renewable fuels, pharmaceuticals, toothpaste, cosmetics, food packaging, beer, edible oils and more. Our thousands of employees help shape a better future at our global headquarters in Columbia, MD and locations worldwide.
Job Description
Grace is seeking a Director, Global Process Owner Logistics and Warehousing, to join our Supply Chain Center of Excellence team! This role reports to our Senior Director, Supply Chain Center of Excellence located at our Columbia, Maryland location.
The Global Process Owner will play a pivotal role in Grace's operations by establishing, leading, and overseeing the global Logistics and Warehousing processes and systems. This position holds responsibility for designing, executing, and implementing controls to ensure the effective governance of Grace's Logistics and Warehousing operations on a worldwide scale.
Key duties include defining and implementing standards, policies, and processes to drive best-in-class performance and value across the organization. They will spearhead efforts to establish company-wide standards and continuously track performance metrics. This role requires collaboration with various business teams and functional support to ensure alignment with strategic objectives.
Successful candidates will possess strategic agility, sound judgement, resilience, strong organizational skills, and the ability to influence and innovate. They should have extensive experience and expertise in Logistics and Warehousing processes, as well as proficiency in ERP systems, sales and operations planning, supply chain systems, and master data governance.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute a companywide strategic roadmap to enhance Logistics and Warehousing maturity.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders across functions and business units to align strategic objectives.
- Manage projects aimed at improving the Logistics and Warehousing processes.
- Document current process descriptions and update them as necessary in the Logistics and Warehousing playbook.
- Assess process maturity in collaboration with leaders across different business units and geographies.
- Provide SAP functional expertise for logistics and warehousing processes, including master data management and shipping.
- Lead SAP business initiatives, including enhancement projects and upgrades, ensuring alignment with business requirements.
- Enable process design through technology and analytics, leveraging SAP functionality and other tools.
- Define key metrics for logistics and warehousing performance and track improvements.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives by soliciting and evaluating ideas across the COE and implementing suitable projects
Required Qualifications
- Familiarity with industry best practices and emerging trends in supply chain management
- Proven track record of driving process improvements and achieving measurable results
- 10 – 15 years of Logistics and Warehousing experience globally and coordinating across more than one business
- Strong knowledge of SAP and strong WM experience (7+ years)
- Deep functional knowledge of data, processes, and integration points with WM and other SAP modules, SAP, and industry standard best practices
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain or related field
- Ability to travel requirement up to 25% including international travel
Preferred Qualifications
- Change Management experience and the ability to adapt to evolving business needs
- Six Sigma Blackbelt
- Master’s degree in supply chain or related field
- Chemical industry experience
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance and Disability
- Grace Wellness Program
- Flexible Workplace
- Retirement Plans
- 401(k) Company Match
- Paid Vacation and Holidays
- Parental Leave (salaried only)
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Company Donation Match Program
Grace is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. Please, no phone calls or emails. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Grace via email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of Grace. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Grace as a result of the referral or through other means.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Columbia, MD |
| Industry | Chemicals/Petro-Chemicals |
| Salary | $172,216–$236,797 Per Year |
| Company Size | 5,000 to 9,999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1854 |
| Website | http://www.grace.com/ |
About Company
What's in a slogan?
A story. A promise. An invitation.
You'll find Grace products in toothpaste, car bumpers, water- and fireproofing materials; in cans and bottles; in roads, bridges, and buildings; and in plastics, petroleum products, and much, much more. Over 1,000 Grace patents are the product of a deeply-rooted culture of invention. Grace people develop, manufacture, and deliver breakthrough and proven products to meet needs in new places and new applications in Catalysts Technologies, Materials Technologies, and Construction Products.Grace's story is a story of quality and commitment; with longstanding relationships and collaboration—with customers, co-workers, partners, and communities. And it's a story of Values that have turned priorities such as safety and respect into Grace DNA.
Finally, it's a story of growth; of dramatic expansion beyond traditional mature markets into the world's fastest growing economies. The success of Grace products mirrors the world's most promising stories of improving living standards throughout the world.
Our promise to customers, to our communities, and to ourselves is to deliver value; safely, reliably, and creatively. When we do, the lives touched by our products and those of our customers are made better.
So we invite you to look closely at the opportunities now available with Grace. If you're ready to lead, ready to grow, and ready to make a difference, we'd love to hear from you.
Skills
- Alternative Fuelsunmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Biotech and Pharmaceuticalunmatched
- Change Managementunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Dental Insuranceunmatched
- ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)unmatched
- Employee Benefitsunmatched
- Industry Standardsunmatched
- Logisticsunmatched
- Logistics Processesunmatched
- Master Data Management (MDM)unmatched
- Metricsunmatched
- Operations Planningunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Performance Analysisunmatched
- Performance Managementunmatched
- Performance Metricsunmatched
- Policy Implementationunmatched
- Process Analysisunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Resume Searchunmatched
- Retirement Planunmatched
- SAPunmatched
- Sales Operationsunmatched
- Six Sigmaunmatched
- Six Sigma Black Beltunmatched
- Standards Developmentunmatched
- Supply Chainunmatched
- Supply Chain Managementunmatched
- Supply Chain Operationsunmatched
- Trend Analysisunmatched
- Vision Planunmatched
- Warehousingunmatched
- Willing to Travelunmatched
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