WMS Functional Soluction Architect (with Blue Yonder)

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About You

You're driven to perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we're constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you'll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

As a Procurement Agile Sr. Manager, you'll lead a team/pod of 3-4 and will support Global and Regional Procurement in the Global Procurement Center of Expertise (COE). This role is the agile leader who coordinates with global and regional strategic sourcing teams to staff Agile Squad resources for planned sourcing events and ad-hoc requests. The teams led by this role positions the procurement function to deliver incremental value and to accelerate value delivery of strategic projects.

The Agile teams deliver high visibility, high ROI projects across categories in collaboration with the Procurement Agile Sr. Manager, category leaders and business unit leaders. This role will require project management, team leadership, problem solving/critical thinking skills, financial analysis, effective stakeholder management skills, and an understanding of strategic category management, development and negotiation. You'll also lead a team that that supports multiple projects in parallel and will report into the Sr. Director of the Global Procurement Center of Excellence.

Main responsibilities:

• Leads and delivers the analysis, design, configuration, customization, testing, deployment and support for applications within the warehouse management business process area.
• Functional leader of medium to large projects for a specific business capability. Accountabilities across multiple functional and technical areas with wide range of complexity.
• Proactive analysis of business processes and identification of innovative ways to use technology to address near term business needs which includes identifying these opportunities, reviewing and obtaining a disposition decision from the appropriate business client, assessing the fit of these opportunities into current initiatives, or including the opportunity in future demand
• Participates with Business resources to establish requirements for the implementation of changes in the business process.
• As part of this team, the WMS SA will be responsible for integrating business, information, and technology architecture to create solutions for the relevant business capability area and in some cases, cross capability areas.
• Focus on cost savings, business growth, as well as connecting with partners and customers.

Scope/Categories:

Role will report to the ITAS WMS organization. Role will not have any direct reports. Key Interfaces: Functional Engineer, Business Client, Data & Analytics team, Solution Engineers. Enterprise Architects. and Project Managers. External Interfaces: Consultants, 3rd Party providers. Travel may include approximately up to 40% of work time in some months.

Key Accountabilities:

• Accountabilities across multiple functional and technical analytical areas with wide range of complexity. Leader of medium to complex projects for a specific business capability or across multiple capabilities.
• Translates non-functional and functional requirements into end-to-end analytical solution designs, ensuring solution aligns with business goals and processes, uses and provides enterprise information consistently, integrates effectively with other applications and supports a common application environment.
• Collaborates with other SAs, BAs and Enterprise Architecture to make sure that solutions fit within enterprise context and aims for standardization of solutions across K-C's application landscape.
• Coordinates medium to complex Warehouse Management Systems implementations while leading design variances based upon business needs.
• Coordinates engagements with vendors as they relate to evaluation, design and delivery of business capabilities. Contributes to the evaluation and selection of software product standards.

Key Qualifications and Experiences:

• Bachelor's degree
• 7- 10 years of related work experience and responsibilities delivering projects in Supply Chain Management/ Warehousing domain
• Fluent English mandatory
• Desirable: Portuguese and Spanish
• Lead and responsible for Blue Yonder WMS modules 2019 (former JDA and Red Prairie) and above with deep functional / domain expertise and hands on experiences in configurations, training, knowledge transfer, customer communications and documentations
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to present complex information to individuals, small groups, and executive leadership
• Knows how the integration between Blue Yonder WMS and other supply chain systems desirable like SAP ECC, S/4HANA,TMS or LMS systems
• Led and managed minimum 4-5 full lifecycle WMS implementations in large and complex environment.
• Should have at least 1 implementation on latest release of BY WMS cloud solution.
• The candidate should be able to lead and facilitate workshop sessions, manage project, work with partner resources and deliverables.
• Architect the WMS solution to achieve a defined operation goal, working with Interfaces, workflows, and data management/data migration.
• Play SMEs for functional areas for the warehouses.
• Engage with business teams to collect their requirements and configure the Blue Yonder System or share requirements for other team members to configure to support the business needs
• Able to Travel approximately up to 40% of work time in some months.
• Should have Led and participated in:
  
  
  • Gather Business requirements.
  • Analyze and transform to application requirements.
  • Perform Fit-Gap Analysis
  • Lead Functional Design approval process.
  • Strong interaction with development team to test and delivery the solution.
  • Assist customer during UAT
  • Prepare and Review documentations.
  • Working experience with Onsite & Offshore delivery model environment is preferred.
• Experience with Subject matter in the following Warehousing areas:
  
  
  • Order Management
  • Receiving
  • Shipping
  • Inventory Management
  • Appointments
  • Warehouse Controls
  • Page Builder
  • Integration with non BY systems like SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA along with WCS/WCU components
  • Experience with Hand held device integration and MOCA
  • Labor Standards
  • Knowledge on leading Warehousing Solution such as SAP- EWM will be an added plus.
  • Systems / Data integration experiences

Business analysis: Investigates operational requirements, problems, and opportunities, seeking effective business solutions through improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes. Assists in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, and the underlying issues arising from investigations into business requirements and problems and identifies options for consideration. Identifies potential benefits, and available options for consideration. Works with clients/users in defining acceptance tests.

Business risk management: Carries out risk assessment within a defined functional or technical area of business. Uses consistent processes for identifying potential risk events, quantifying and documenting the probability of occurrence and the impact on the business. Refers to domain experts for guidance on specialized areas of risk, such as architecture and environment. Co-ordinates the development of countermeasures and contingency plans.

Requirements Definition and Management: Facilitates scoping and business priority-setting for change initiatives of medium size and complexity. Contributes to selection of the most appropriate means of representing business requirements in the context of a specific change initiative, ensuring traceability back to source. Discovers and analyses requirements for fitness for purpose as well as adherence to business objectives and consistency, challenging positively as appropriate. Obtains formal agreement by stakeholders and recipients to scope and requirements and establishes a base-line on which delivery of a solution can commence. Manages requests for and the application of changes to base-lined requirements. Identifies the impact on business requirements of interim (e.g. migration) scenarios as well as the required end position.

Kimberly-Clark and its well-known global brands are an indispensable part of life for people in more than 150 countries. Every day, 1.3 billion people - nearly a quarter of the world's population - trust K-C brands and the solutions they provide to enhance their health, hygiene, and well-being. With brands such as Kleenex, Scott, Huggies, Pull-Ups, Kotex, and Depend, Kimberly-Clark holds No.1 or No. 2 share positions in more than 80 countries. With a 135-year history of innovation, we believe in recruiting the best people and putting them in the right jobs so that they can do their best work. If fresh thinking and a passion to win inspire you, come Unleash Your Power at Kimberly-Clark.

Total Benefits

Here are just a few of the benefits you'd enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark. For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com.

Great support for good health with medical, dental, and vision coverage options with no waiting periods or pre-existing condition restrictions. Access to an on-site fitness center, occupational health nurse, and allowances for high-quality safety equipment.

Flexible Savings and spending accounts to maximize health care options and stretch dollars when caring for yourself or dependents.

Diverse income protection insurance options to protect yourself and your family in case of illness, injury, or other unexpected events.

Additional programs and support to continue your education, adopt a child, relocate, or even find temporary childcare.

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For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world. We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers. When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law. The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

Additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role are available upon request. You may contact kcchrprod@service-now.com for assistance. You must include the six digit Job # with your request.

This role is available for local candidates already authorized to work in the role's country only. Kimberly-Clark will not provide relocation support for this role.

Additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role are available upon request. You may contact kcchrprod@service-now.com for assistance. You must include the six digit Job # with your request.

This role is available for local candidates already authorized to work in the role's country only. Kimberly-Clark will not provide relocation support for this role.

Primary Location

Brazil -Sao Paulo

Additional Locations

Argentina -Buenos Aires, Costa Rica - San Jose

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time