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POSITION DESCRIPTION POSITION TITLE: Global Supply Systems & Process Leader Role DEPARTMENT NAME: Global Supply Planning ZOETIS Zoetis Inc. is a global leader in the animal health industry, focused on the discovery, development, manufacture and commercialization of medicines, vaccines, diagnostic products and services, biodevices, genetic tests and precision animal health technology. We have a diversified business, commercializing products across eight core species: dogs, cats and horses (collectively, companion animals) and cattle, swine, poultry, fish and sheep (collectively, livestock); and within seven major product categories: vaccines, parasiticides, anti-infectives, dermatology, other pharmaceutical products, medicated feed additives and animal health diagnostics. For 70 years, we have been innovating ways to predict, prevent, detect, and treat animal illness, and continue to stand by those raising and caring for animals worldwide - from livestock farmers to veterinarians and pet owners. A Fortune 500 company with a market cap of over $90B, Zoetis generated revenue of $8.1 billion in 2022 and employs over 12,000 colleagues worldwide, with about half in our Global Manufacturing and Supply organization. We view the strength of our leadership team and our talented colleagues around the world as a critical component of our past and future success. We are committed to continuing to be a company our colleagues can be proud of and to attracting, retaining and developing the best talent in the industry through our focus on workplace culture and engagement, diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I), talent recruitment, development and retention, benefits and compensation, and employee health and safety. We have established Core Beliefs that are the foundation of the commitments we make to each other, our customers and our stakeholders every day: Our Colleagues Make the Difference Always Do the Right Thing Customer Obsessed Run It Like You Own It We are One Zoetis Zoetis continues on a pattern of consistent growth since becoming a public company in 2013. Importantly, our performance demonstrated that animal health remains an essential industry and continues to have resilient growth drivers in the face of global challenges. Our performance was made possible by dedicated Zoetis colleagues, guided by a strong culture founded on our Core Beliefs. Our strong financial performance has enabled us to continue with meaningful investments in our business, while returning capital to our shareholders. These investments support our five strategic priorities for growth: (1) drive innovative growth, (2) enhance customer experience, (3) lead in digital and data analytics, (4) cultivate a high-performing culture, and (5) champion a healthier, more sustainable future. And they are grounded in our purpose: to nurture our world and humankind by advancing care for animals. THE ROLE The Global Supply Systems & Process Leader (Director) is a new role with the aim to establish a new centralized support function to the Global Supply Planning and Manufacturing Planning teams. The role holder will report directly to the Global Supply Planning Leader and be a member of the Global Supply Planning leadership team. As an experienced, visionary and global leader you will be responsible for building the new Global Systems & Operations function supporting a significant global spend base of approximately 7 bUSD across several platforms - Biologics, Pharma, API, APAC and Diagnostics The role holder will be a key transformation partner to the Platform Supply Leaders and Site Planning Team in transforming our current organization into a truly global and data driven high performing team using standardized systems and process to deliver on our goals and objectives POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES Responsibilities include: Lead the system, process and skills needs assessment across the supply planning organization in order to deliver the GMS & COE Objectives. Own the development of the Skill Matrices for Global Supply and Site Planning Roles. Lead the implementation of standard skill matrices across the supply planning community and act as the lead 'Train the Trainer' to flow knowledge through the organization development and deployment. Drive global standardizations & optimizations including Supporting IBP & S4 Implementation & Ramp up across Global Supply Planning & Manufacturing sites. Lead the assessment of current planning practices across key sites and align bench mark standards and practices to be rolled out across platforms Assess work that has to be executed 'Outside the system,' and lead process improvement work to resolve and/or optimize in order to drive efficiencies and improve best practices. Partner with Opex organization to quantify improvements and capture benefits as CIPs and productivity improvements in the respective areas. Optimizations will come from supporting the organization on preparing and executing yearly processes e.g. market SLEAs, Budget process, Master data and parameters reviews. Strong collaboration with the Inventory Optimization team, Op Ex Teams and Manufacturing Plants to define the improvements required to increase agility and reduce Inventory including shortening planning time fence, implementing multi level safety stock and max stock strategies, reducing cycle time and optimizing MOQs. Support Data Driven decisions & risk monitoring (OOS & Excess) for Key Brands by developing E2E Visualization of Stock Levels versus target. Develop and implement robust KPI tracking and a culture of 'Run To Target' within Global Supply planning by developing scorecards at group, platform & individual level. Play a key role in partnering with relevant stakeholders to improve SnOE, Site and Platform Level SnOP. Lead key improvement projects ROLE COMPETENCIES The ideal candidate for the role will be a experience Supply Chain Professional who has experience leading system improvements, demonstrated operational excellence and a strong business mindset. An individual with strong collaboration skills is key as this role with partner across multiple functions including manufacturing sites, finance, external supply, quality and other relevant stakeholders. To be considered for the role the following experience is important: In terms of the performance and personal competencies required for the position, we would highlight the following: Business acumen and systems thinker Strong networker by role modelling collaboration with senior business stakeholders. Proactively engage with the business. Constructively challenge to maximize opportunity and mitigate risk Great communication and presentation skills and the ability to influence up and down the organization. Change & Transformation management Good financial understanding like PPV, depreciations, amortization of savings and impact on P&L all built into high quality business cases. +5 years leadership experience Focus on people development with a demonstrated track record of training and developing across the organization. You are an entrepreneur and constantly look for ways of simplifying and optimizing the way we work by utilizing data, systems and digital tools Level of Education and Qualifications: +10 years of experience ideally from the FMCG, automotive industry or pharmaceutical industry Bachelors/Masters and/or MBA degree e.g. within a relevant field Technical Requirements: Knowledge of SAP Power BI Experience with GenAI, CHATGPT is beneficial Master user of the Microsoft Office package like Excel, PowerPoint etc PHYSICAL POSITION REQUIREMENTS Based at GMS & International headquarters in Dublin, Ireland Travel as required to fulfill responsibilities of the role (typically up to 20%) Full time Legal statement as below This job advert indicates the general nature and level of work expected. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be asked to perform other duties as required. Additional position specific requirements/responsibilities are contained in approved training curricula. Visa status re must be eligible to work and live in Ireland as below Colleague must be legally eligible to live and work in Ireland. Summary of our Benefits In addition, to being part the world leading animal health company focused on the needs of those who raise and care for animals we offer a range of benefits such as competitive salary, bonus, 25.5 days holiday per annum plus public holidays, a defined contributory pension plan, private medical insurance for you and your family and empowered flexible working, to name a few. To be considered for this role you will be redirected to and must complete the application process on our careers page. To start the process click the Apply button below to Login/Register.