Capgemini - Lead - Supply Chain Planning (15-20 yrs)

Job title: Supply Chain Planning Lead

Location: Chennai

Grade: E1/E2

About Capgemini:

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society.

It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs.

It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of 22.5 billion.

Capgemini in India comprises nearly 175,000 team members working across 13 locations: Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Coimbatore, Gandhinagar, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Noida, Pune, Salem and Tiruchirappalli.

About BSV:

- Business Services India is a global business line that maximizes our deep consulting, digital technology, and operational expertise to shape the future of business operations with intelligent automation in order to create outstanding value for our clients, for Capgemini, and for our people.

- Capgeminis Business Services has a proven reputation, documented industry and functional experience, comprehensive portfolio and collaborative engagement.

- We are highly differentiated, so the worlds leading organizations trust us to dramatically improve their business performance and shareholder value.

Why Join Capgemini?

- The choices you make today lay the foundation for change tomorrow.

- Choosing Capgemini means having the opportunity to make a difference, whether for the worlds leading businesses or for society.

- It means getting the support you need to shape your career in the way that works for you.

- It means when the future doesnt look as bright as youd like, you have the opportunity to make change: to rewrite it.

- When you join Capgemini, you dont just start a new job. You become part of something bigger.

- A diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and experts, all working together to unleash human energy through technology, for an inclusive and sustainable future.

- At Capgemini, people are at the heart of everything we do! You can exponentially grow your career by being part of innovative projects and taking advantage of our extensive Learning & Development programs.

- With us, you will experience an inclusive, safe, healthy, and flexible work environment to bring out the best in you!

- You also get a chance to make positive social change and build a better world by taking an active role in our Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability initiatives.

- And whilst you make a difference, you will also have a lot of fun.

The Opportunity:

- Capgemini is seeking a Director/Sn Director level executive to Deliver business critical supply chain services to our clients, continuously improving on the quality and effectiveness of the processes.

- This includes supply chain processes such as Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Master Data Management, Customer Order Management, Material Planning, Distribution Planning and Supply Chain Analytics.

- This involves close collaboration with the clients and their employees to keep abreast of ever evolving business needs and delivering to those needs.

- It also requires teamwork and the ability to coach other employees, both within Capgemini and the client organization.

Process delivery:

- Deliver business critical supply chain services to the clients, at levels consistently above their expectations.

- Create robust service delivery teams and capabilities in supply chain, providing an ever evolving and continuously improving service culture.

- Manage service delivery teams that could be a mix of Capgemini and client personnel.

Client relationship:

- Work to build a strong and credible relationship with the client through working collaboratively to understand challenges and provide solutions

- Meeting client objectives in the supply chain space

- Ability to articulate the outputs delivered to the client either by self or by the larger Capgemini supply chain delivery team.

Internal and external interfaces:

- Work with the client service delivery executives to determine opportunity areas in the supply chain space and deliver them effectively

- Coordinate internally within Capgemini to deliver the relevant capabilities to the client.

Our Ideal Candidate:

- He/She/They or the incumbent will have 15-20 years of experience.

Essential Skills:

- In depth knowledge of all planning processes

- Post Graduate degree in operations management, with supply chain specialization from reputed institute

- Lean Six Sigma / Black Belt certification

- At least 15 to 18 years of experience in supply chain and allied areas

- Excellent client relationship management skills

- Organized and self-motivated

- Team management skills

- Change management skills

- Innovative mindset and ability to work in high demanding environment

Desirable Skills:

- Understanding of business process outsourcing

- Familiarity with working in a distributed work environment

- CSCP / CPIM certification (planning and Inventory management, SCM)