Director, GSM - Advanced Performance: Design to Value & Cost Analytics

Company: Bakon Italia S.R.L.
Location: Topeka
Posted on: February 1, 2025

Job Description:

Director, GSM - Advanced Performance: Design to Value & Cost AnalyticsDirector, Global Supply Management - Center of Excellence, Advanced Performance: Design to Value & Cost Analytics is a key contributor and leader of a team of engineers, project managers, and analysts to effectively support the enterprise to drive exponential value by leveraging customer insights, supply insights, design insights, costs, modularity & platforming, manufacturability, and sustainability.Lead the Design to Value (DtV) cross Operating Company teams, including performance management, responsible for achieving goals and objectives set forth by Steering Committee, Operating Companies, GSM and third-party guidance. Coordination of product supply, engineering design, and Voice of the customer resources cross functionally and in operating companies. Lead the cost analytics lab and generate work products to address cost, support supply chain shifts, and enable strategies.The leader will create the mission and vision for the CoE Advanced Performance team and partner closely with the CoE Governance and Performance Leader to create a unified CoE mission and vision statement. This individual will also build relationships with the Directs Sourcing, Indirects Sourcing, and Operating Company leaders and key stakeholders to facilitate cross-functional engagement and determine the goals and objectives for the CoE Advanced Performance team and drive results through coaching and sharing of best practices to Win as One.Work You'll Do:

• Create and institutionalize the DtV toolkit, ensuring standard work product, processes and reporting.
• Lead consistent DtV processes and Infrastructure across the enterprise.
• Identify products / components with high DtV potential and bring together relevant cross-functional stakeholders (commercial, manufacturing, engineering, finance, and GSM) for workshops, ideation, and execution.
• Plan, support, and execute tear down workshops and design reviews with business stakeholders.
• Identify and prioritize the opportunities, balance impact potential and execution complexity. Drive opportunities through execution.
• Lead rigorous technical validation of proposed engineering changes to ensure smooth and effective implementation.
• Identify, prioritize, and execute on opportunities to leverage clean sheets, linear performance pricing, and parametric pricing.
• Support negotiation fact pack building and supplier negotiations as necessary.
• Engage in supplier footprint optimization and make vs. buy analysis - including but not limited to defining the total cost of ownership and adjacent analytics.
• Establish standards and process for an agile and reactive response to market trends, supply shifts, and risk mitigation that are linked with clean sheets and cost analytics.
• Build dashboards and predictive tools to drive actions, accountability, and results.
• Establish standard rhythms and communication across GSM team and within Opco's on relative subjects to drive alignment and engagement.
• Function as a leader in driving innovation, efficiency, and value creation across key functional areas within the entire GSM organization.
• Provide leadership, guidance, and mentorship to a global team of advanced performance managers and analysts, procurement professionals, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning within the procurement organization, promoting professional development and career growth opportunities.
• Lead by example, embodying the organization's values, ethics, and principles, while driving a culture of integrity, transparency, and accountability.
• Innovate process improvements to benefit GSM's efficiency, effectiveness, competitive standing, and performance.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to understand advanced sourcing strategies, optimized sourcing, market analyses, spend deep dives and related analytics, training programs, knowledge codification, and data-driven negotiation tactics.
• Follow a continuous improvement mindset to continually enhance processes and operating methods.Basic Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering required.
  • Design to Value or Design to Cost experience of a minimum of 2 years is required.
  • Additional education or experience in Supply Chain Management, or a related field.
  • 10+ years relevant experience.
  • Proven history of leadership.
  • Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with experience leveraging data analytics, modeling techniques, and advanced tools to drive insights and inform decision-making.
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and people skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders, build consensus, and drive change in a complex, matrixed organization.
  • Analytical thinker with a track record of driving transformational change, fostering collaboration, and delivering results in a global, cross-functional environment.
  • Effective communication and people skills, with the ability to collaborate cross-functionally and build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.Preferred Qualifications:
    • Master's degree preferred.Who we are:Hillenbrand (NYSE: HI) is a global industrial company that provides highly-engineered, mission-critical processing equipment and solutions to customers in over 100 countries around the world. Our portfolio is composed of leading industrial brands that serve large, attractive end markets, including durable plastics, food, and recycling. Guided by our Purpose - Shape What Matters For Tomorrow - we pursue excellence, collaboration, and innovation to consistently shape solutions that best serve our associates, customers, communities, and other stakeholders. To learn more, visit: www.Hillenbrand.com.EEO: The policy of Hillenbrand Inc. is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status. Additionally, Hillenbrand Inc. and our operating companies are committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us @recruitingaccommodations@hillenbrand.com. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying. At Hillenbrand, everyone is welcome to apply and "Shape What Matters for Tomorrow".
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