Senior Manager, Supply Chain & Operations, Manufacturing

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Take your career to the next level and join a high performing and inclusive team, working collaboratively with some of the most significant organisations in the world as they seek to strengthen strategic performance and resilience of their supply chains and manufacturing operations.

Leverage and expand your experience in manufacturing operational performance improvement, innovation and technology to be at the forefront of shaping our clients’ manufacturing practices and leading their leading their strategy, manufacturing excellence, digital, automation & AI journey. Develop and impart your experience on those you work with to help create the next generation of supply chain leaders.

We value curious thinkers who have the courage to lead, great communicators who do not take themselves too seriously, flexible collaborators who build relationships based on doing the right thing and innovative problem-solvers who use their experience to find a better way to support and bring value to our clients.

EY has two key service offerings within our manufacturing practice:

• Manufacturing Excellence; comprised of the following elements Revolutionise manufacturing practices through our EY operating manufacturing methodology Coaching and training core manufacturing clients in new ways of working Digitising manufacturing daily management systems to improve factory performance
• Digital Manufacturing; comprised of the following elements:
  Building digital roadmaps and business cases Programme management and system integration roles within large digital transformations Advising clients on leading digital practices Develop manufacturing solution playbooks to enable clients to deliver digital transformation

Our clients place considerable trust in us and our advice. People who are passionate, go above and beyond to improve our working world, unifies us as a team. This is crucial in enabling us to consistently deliver or exceed on our commitments.

As a Senior Manager, you’ll balance client work, business development support, operational and people development as part of your day job. You will advise and support global Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Technology leaders to define and deliver breakthroughs in performance through manufacturing excellence and Industry 4.0 digital manufacturing programmes. It is required that you have a deep expertise in one of the two service offerings and a light understanding of the other one.

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing complete programme governance; strategy, framework, and standard development
• Own financials and resource staffing for complex programmes or several different client programmes
• Able to advise clients of the leading practice in this field ensuring that we build credibility and deep relationships
• Identifying, perusing and closing opportunities within all programmes/clients to grow the business
• Management, creation, and execution of client RfP responses e.g., manufacturing transformations / architecture designs and diagnostics
• Model detailed business cases across clients’ networks to justify investing in manufacturing excellence and digital deployment
• Advising clients on top stops, loss analysis and countermeasures to reduce critical losses
• Deep understanding of manufacturing excellence practices; IWS / RTT methodology and coaching plant teams to improve operational performance
• Develop technical requirements, use cases, reference architectures and…