Competitiveness & Transformation Execution Lead

Entity:

Customers & Products

Job Family Group:

Procurement & Supply Chain Management Group

Job Description:

What you will deliver (responsibilities)

• Lead or support projects focused on driving competitiveness & transformation for one of Castrol’s Performance Units (PUs) with strong project management skills.

• Extract and consolidate data from supply chain systems (e.g., JDE, KINAXIS, SQL, MS Access or any database management tool), Data extraction skills (SQL, MS Access, Excel or any other equivalent software). Combining datasets to meet required modelling scenarios (SQL queries, lookups, etc)

• Perform comprehensive supply chain cost modelling across multiple variables—including raw materials, packaging, finished goods, transfer pricing, manufacturing costs, warehousing, logistics, freight, sales, and forecasting — to enable data driven decision making and network optimization and able to correlate data to supply chain and financial/costing modelling scenarios.

• Support the execution of the C&T agenda, including PCC (Product Cost Competitiveness), OCC (Operational Cost Competitiveness), Industrialization and Transformation.

• Experience of driving the various supply chain initiatives including digital, improve the competitiveness and efficiency of Castrol supply chain by ensuring projects are implemented at PU level effectively and with maximum pace to capture value

• Collaborate with C&T colleagues within PU and global to ensure effective handover and continuity as projects progress through their lifecycle

• Knowledge of commercials and interpretation of supply chain cost & basics of accounting

• Support the C&T ideation process to build a continual pipeline of opportunities for Competitiveness & Transformation

• Adopt project management guideline to manage timelines/breakthroughs, risks, interdependencies, resources, budgets and value delivery

• Work closely with collaborators in Supply Chain, manufacturing, procurement, marketing, technology and performance units to ensure cross functional alignment and improve potential for project success

• Support effective tracking of value delivery and status reporting for Team, Project Governance and Leadership.

What you will need to be successful (experience, job requirements & qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree

• 9+ year experience, ideally within Lubricants, chemicals or FMCG industries, with a solid track record of delivery

• Solid project management experience, ideally with formal qualification (e.g. PMP, Prince)

• Data download from various sources (e.g. JDE, Kinaxis, etc.) to perform supply chain cost modelling scenarios

• Data analysis & cost modelling experience, coupled with the ability to use analytics tools (e.g. Excel, Power BI) to identify insights, solve problems & make decisions

• Proven experience developing relationships & managing collaborators across different teams and org levels

• Ability to manage a diverse set of activities and prioritize effectively to achieve optimum results for the organization

• Able to collaborate effectively with others across different teams, cultures and geographies 

You will work with

• Work with colleagues within the PU-based C&T teams to jointly deliver the C&T agenda

• PPD global

• Share, support and learn from other C&T team members within the BTC Pune team

Why join our team?

We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

 

Travel Requirement

Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is eligible for relocation within country

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Agility core practices, Analytical Thinking, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Cost Management, Cost Optimization, Creativity and Innovation, Decision Making, Digital Fluency, Inventory Management, Negotiation planning and preparation, Resilience, Risk Management, Sourcing strategy, Supplier Performance Management, Supply Chain Development, Supply Chain Improvements, Supply chain management, Supply Chain Modeling, Supply Chain Operations, Supply Chain Transformation, Sustainability awareness and action

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