GIS Director - North America Supply Chain & Logistics – A13WW

THE CAREER OPPORTUNITY YOU'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR:

Located just 90 minutes from the Chicago Loop, along the beaches of Lake Michigan, Whirlpool Corporation is the world’s leading manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances.  Boasting annual sales of more than $18 billion, with more than 80,000 employees, Whirlpool owns more than 60 manufacturing and technology research centers around the globe.

With growth from the Maytag acquisition, combined with our Customer Centric Supply Chain Initiative (High visibility web based portal and High/Low velocity distribution network), Whirlpool is aggressively seeking top supply chain professionals to help continue our industry dominance while becoming a leading Global Consumer Goods Company in multiple consumer product groups.

BRIEF OVERVIEW:

In this role, you will have the opportunity to partner with North American Supply Chain and Logistics teams in a value-based relationship, developing business & information technology strategies to support overall business goals.  You will also educate and align leadership on the enterprise capabilities & processes for Whirlpool’s North American Supply Chain function and organization.  Finally, you will be responsible for defining the business process scope which includes demand planning, supply planning, constraint management, production planning, order management, inventory management and marketplace intelligence.

IN THIS POSITION YOU’LL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO:

·   Partner to develop business vision and strategy, program definition, prioritization, business case and funding alignment.

·   Ensure Whirlpool has integrated global processes, systems strategy and roadmap. 

·   Work to align process development with system strategy among business and GIS constituents.

•   Communicate to leadership consistent program messages, plans and directions.
•   Act as a sponsor and program/project steering leader to ensure projects stay on path with vision, scope and budget. 
•   Help remove barriers, resolve resource problems and assist in change management across the organization.
•   Facilitate prioritization for various technology investments ensuring the right programs and enhancements are being completed and that the system and process infrastructure is stable and reliable. 
•   Work to make sure support of deployed solutions and existing business data management processes (including master data) are effectively & efficiently meeting service level objectives.
•   Ensure harmonized delivery of GIS services (Infrastructure, Applications Support, Security, etc) to allow a non-disruptive operation of supported business processes.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES: 

·   Engage all leaders in developing and promoting an environment of learning and teaching to enable our competitive advantage and optimize our people.  Ensure the best in class performance in leadership, core, operational and functional competencies for all people.

·   Work with Enterprise Architecture (EA) in discovery of new process & system trends that will help solve key business problems and ensure business strategy is following our EA standards, adopting the right technology at the right time.Manage project financials and business cases with finance and business team members.

·   Work with Global Business Solutions project managers and support team to insure existence of proper project definition, execution and support.  Manage relationships with IT counterparts in partner organizations (Trade partners, suppliers, etc)

·   Talent and Performance management (per global and regional guidelines)

 TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE YOU’LL NEED:

·         A Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Business or related field

·         Industry expertise in Supply Chain Management

·         Working knowledge of global supply and demand processes; working knowledge of data management and system software technologies a plus

·         Strong management, leadership and interpersonal skills required

·         Strong analytical skills, experience solving practical issues and engaging teams of multiple process partners to consensus

·         Excellent knowledge of business tools such as financial analysis, process design and productivity measurements

WHIRLPOOL LEADERSHIP ATTRIBUTES AND QUALLIFICATIONS:

Whirlpool prides itself on hiring top-notch leaders with the necessary attributes and qualifications to achieve greatness. In this position, we are looking for a leader that possesses strong character and integrity, as well as confidence in their actions and decisions that will ultimately drive vital business decisions. The leader must have the ability to communicate strategies and solutions to colleagues and customers in order to achieve financial goals. With these attributes and practices, we believe that the leader will successfully provide extraordinary results and consistently drive change that will be key factors in Whirlpool's future successes.

~cb~