Global Process Owner, Production Planning & Manufacturing Execution

Overview

As Global Process Owner for Production Planning & Manufacturing Execution, you will define, govern and continuously improve global processes across regions and sites. You will harmonise requirements, priorities and SAP capabilities to deliver standardized, scalable, compliant operations. You’ll drive simplification, automation and performance, partnering with multi-functional teams to ensure adoption of global standards. This remote role offers the chance to shape end-to-end planning and execution at scale, contributing to Convatec’s mission to improve lives through medical solutions.

Pay / Benefits

• remote role

Responsibilities

• Own and govern the end-to-end global production planning and manufacturing execution process across regions and sites.
• Define and maintain global process policies, controls, design standards and decision-making principles.
• Act as the primary authority for process decisions, including change requests and deviations from the global template.
• Design and document global processes using SAP best practices aligned to business needs.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, harmonise, automate and optimise planning and execution.
• Define and monitor performance indicators (planning stability, schedule adherence, production performance, inventory accuracy, quality, compliance).
• Use data and feedback to drive continuous improvement.
• Partner with global and site teams for process alignment, adoption and change management.
• Bridge business and IT by translating requirements into effective SAP solutions.
• Lead structured stakeholder communication, facilitate decisions and identify risks early.

Key requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Manufacturing, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Business or a related discipline.
• Strong experience in production planning or manufacturing execution in a global or multi-site environment.
• Experience with SAP ERP, ideally including SAP S/4HANA Production Planning and Manufacturing and global template implementations.
• At least five years of relevant experience in production planning, manufacturing operations, manufacturing execution, supply chain or process management.
• In-depth understanding of MRP, capacity planning, production scheduling, shop-floor execution, production order management, material consumption, confirmations and production performance.
• Demonstrated experience in process design, governance, standardisation and continuous improvement.

• stakeholder communication
• change management
• collaboration
• SAP ERP
• SAP S/4HANA Production Planning and Manufacturing
• global template implementations

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