COE Solution Architect: GSC Reporting & Analytics

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Job Summary: 

The Center of Excellence (COE) teams is a critical component of the broader Global Supply Chain (GSC)organization within CooperVision.  The COE is responsible for setting the strategic direction of the GSC by supporting the development of new capabilities, accelerating their delivery, and helping to mature key processes and use of systems while developing talent across the supply chain organization.

The COE Solution Architect: GSC Reporting & Analytics is responsible for leading CooperVision’s Global Supply Chain organization in the design, development and execution of robust reporting & analytics solutions that will be used to drive key planning processes, including all S&OP forums across Demand & Supply Planning and Annual Budget Planning. 

This role will focus on utilizing system capabilities to automate reporting needs wherever possible and will work to refine and document business requirements and functional specifications required by IS partners to build these reports.  This role will optimize the use of o9’s reporting capabilities by acting as a system SME and will train users on the utilizing reporting in o9 where needed to ensure supply planning best practices are being executed against correctly. 

This role also leads and guides the GSC Planning teams in defining, calculating, and setting performance targets around those KPIs that are critical to assessing the health of our supply chain processes, and uses industry benchmarks to support target setting. 

• Assess impact of current business practices, identify, and implement improvement opportunities. Use business analysis skills to help diagnose issues and consider the options and solutions required.
• Establish performance targets for supply planning: align on calculation and include industry benchmarks where relevant to help inform target setting.  Develop reports to track these targets on a monthly basis.
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert for reporting capabilities across Demand Planning & Supply Planning modules in o9, and ensure a high level of data integrity in outputs.
• Identify and implement ongoing opportunities and approaches for automating routine processes and driving improvement in efficiency and service levels.
• Stay current with trends in the reporting & analytics space and understand where there might be potential benefit to CVI business.
• Collaborate with teammates across GSC to develop reports that meet their reporting & analytics needs and align with the organization’s strategic goals.
• Partner with MDM and IS teams where needed to ensure appropriate data governance policies and procedures are in place.

Travel: 

• Domestic and International travel – up to 10%