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Inventory Planning is a critical process to ensure that the company, in line with its business strategy, meets the customer service objectives while improving the cash flow. As part of the MedTech Supply Chain, IBM team, this position will drive the Inventory Management strategies and initiatives for building the capability and competitiveness in Med Tech Business Units.

The Sr Manager Inventory process will drive the MT Inventory Governance and strategic reviews to support the value realization & solutions to strengthen the maturity of the inventory management process. The position has a global scope, with responsibilities for all business units within MT Supply Chain.

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• In partnership with MT IM Global Lead, drive the MT inventory governance process.
• Engage and collaborate with business units to collect inventory information and prepare insights.
• Lead the assessment of Inventory process maturity and adoption of inventory management blueprints in MR businesses.
• Partnering with global MT Supply Chain teams to identify, rationalize, and prioritize the desired process & systems enhancements intended to strengthen planning capabilities.
• Partnering with JJ Technology & Digital teams to design and implement the capabilities strengthening inventory management process.
• Design/Support a global business process community in alignment with other roles and responsibilities within the organization for the IM function.
• Support value realization framework to determine and track value realized out of plan investments.
• Establish a team of global process owners and Super Users for the process areas of responsibility.
• Design/Implement/Support a common governance process and collaboration model, in alignment with the Capability Execution Team structure to continuously improve plan process maturity.
• Facilitate process management training and knowledge & experience sharing and drive awareness of business process management.
• Stakeholder Management – Ensure key stakeholders are identified, engaged, and aligned across various key discussions and decisions. 
• Communications – Provide proactive, concise, and pertinent communications to key stakeholders and impacted users as they relate to project execution, business transformations, change impacts, etc. On an ongoing basis, gauge the organizational “pulse” through various means (i.e. dialog, surveys, etc.) to better understand external perspectives and opportunities.  

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