Global Process Owner Inbound2Outbound (f/m/d/x)

Responsibilities / Tasks

Join GEA and make a positive impact: From safe food and beverages to life-saving medicines, GEA makes it possible. We also help our customers reduce CO2 emissions, protect water, and reduce and recycle waste. 

GEA Group Services GmbH in Düsseldorf takes over the corporate functions of GEA AG, including areas such as corporate finance, legal and IT, which provide central services for all company divisions. The location also houses the Digital HUB and the Center of Excellence (CoE).

We are looking for experienced and motivated Global Process Owner Inbound2Outbound (f/m/d/x) for deployment in Düsseldorf as soon as possible. The role:

• Owns the GEA-wide end-to-end process for inbound to outbound processes as standard for all GEA plants globally

• Lead the end-to-end process design and implementation for the I2O stream, covering warehousing and transport management.

• Develops and defines harmonized cross GEA processes and defines variants for divisions where needed

• Creates and leads the global process community for processes

• Drives and tracks progress of the central workstream team and contributions from divisions and central functions

• Leads Fit/Gap analysis, validates business requirements to roll out

• Prepares decisions for Design Approval Board composed of C-level executives from various regions, together with respective requester

• Defines functional and technical interfaces between his/her E2E process and other E2E process

• Approves both functional and process designs

• Signs off developments after unit- and integration testing

• Ensures Lead Key User and Key User enablement by involving them in Fit/Gap-, Build-, Test- and Train-Phase

• Defines requirements for analytics and reporting and approves implemented solutions

• Defines data standards (master data) and data migration

Your Profile / Qualifications

• University degree in Business Administration or Engineering, preferably in Manufacturing/ Logistics/SCM

• Seasoned operations professional with significant experience in end-to-end processes in global multi-plant supply chain organization 

• Deep practical know-how of state-of-the-art process organization methods and improvement tools 

• Experience in leading significant change management processes at an international scale

• Industrial background within a  larger global professional organization with a strong emphasis on engineering excellence and innovation

•  In-depth understanding of the strategic role operations/ supply chains play within a manufacturing organization 

• Strong understanding of end-to-end process design, with a focus on logistics and supply chain optimization.

• Profound leadership skills, ability to lead & develop internationally and/or culturally diverse teams, systematically evaluate team performance

• Strong entrepreneurial competencies

• Personal drive and a good balance between being a hands-on manager and the ability to think and act strategically

• Track record of having good business sense and judgment in making decisions

• Intercultural experience and skills 

•  Strong communicator, good networker

We offer:

• Work with a supportive and international team

• Modern working environment with flexible working options and home office for a good work-life balance

• A wide range of personal and professional training and development opportunities for your career planning

• Company pension scheme and accident insurance

• 30 days annual leave plus 24th & 31st December

• Attractive company benefits such as discounts on gym memberships,  courses, etc.

• JobRad including subsidy

• Good access to public transport and a subsidy for public transport use

*For reasons of readability, no gender-specific differentiation is made in the job advertisement. However, the job advertisement is explicitly aimed at all persons, regardless of gender or lack thereof.

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