Principal Supply Chain Process Architect

Principal Process Architect – Supply Chain Center of Excellence

Location:

Remote – United States
Level: Principal (15+ years’ experience)

• Architect end‑to‑end supply‑chain processes (Plan / Source / Deliver and key interfaces), making cross‑functional handoffs, decision points and constraints explicit, and driving simplification and repeatability at scale.
• Define and maintain global standards including process blueprints, standard work/SOPs, business rules, RACI/decision rights, escalation paths and a pragmatic variation policy with clear rationale and governance.
• Establish objectives and priorities with stakeholders based on data‑based ROI determinations and business objectives.
• Facilitate problem identification, knowledge sharing and solutioning across complex stakeholder groups.
• Lead solution implementation and/or identify resource needs to achieve objectives.
• Design practical controls at critical points (e.g., promise/commit, allocation, master data touchpoints, quality holds, supplier escalation), specifying evidence expectations that are workable in real operations.
• Lead systemic defect elimination, driving root‑cause problem solving across process, data, system, and behavior, and reducing dependence on workarounds via a managed workaround registry with owner, risk, expiry and exit plan.
• Leverage analytics and AI tools to accelerate process mapping, root‑cause analysis and scenario design, multiplying the impact and speed of improvements.
• Partner with Data Governance to define process data requirements, KPI definitions, and data quality expectations enabling one version of truth for decision making.
• Partner with IT to align process intent with system capabilities and drive clear business rules and requirements, minimizing unnecessary customization especially on enterprise platforms (Oracle preferred).
• Measure outcomes and drive follow‑through by defining success criteria and KPIs for adoption/compliance and performance impact, monitoring leading indicators, and coordinating corrective actions when targets aren’t met.
• Manage a team of 3–5 process engineers and analysts (potential future scope).
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement.

• 15+ years in supply chain process design, operations excellence, or operating model roles in a global enterprise, with demonstrated end‑to‑end scope beyond a single function.
• Proven ability to build operating mechanisms (standards, decision rights, governance, controls, measures) that scale across regions and cross‑functional teams.
• Strong systems thinking and trade‑off management skills, able to optimize locally within enterprise standards and variation rules and articulate downstream impacts and constraints.
• Experience working with enterprise platforms (Oracle preferred) and partnering with IT on process‑to‑system translation, including business rules, requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• High data fluency: understanding of master data, transaction flows, disciplined KPI definition, and practical data quality controls in an operational context.
• Executive‑level influence and facilitation skills; able to align senior stakeholders without direct authority and coach teams toward consistent execution.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills, with a track record of identifying and resolving risks, issues, and dependencies and delivering initiatives on‑time and on‑budget.
• Experience leveraging AI, automation and desktop tools to increase individual productivity and as solution options.

• Lean/Six Sigma (or equivalent demonstrated practice).
• Background in high‑growth or large‑scale transformation environments, especially involving major ERP or operating model change.
• Experience with operating model design and implementation.
• Experience with formal change management methodology.

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