Director, Asset Digitization - Value Delivery

CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 300 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ 11,000 people and operate in more than 55 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world's biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact.

What does that mean for you? You'll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You'll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. You'll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through our Hybrid Work Model.

Job Description

Position Purpose

The Director, Asset Digitization - Value Delivery is a primary CHEP North America position tasked with designing and delivering CHEP NA digital transformation; partnering with Brambles Digital and using IoT, passive tracking, and digital tools to realize value inside NA. This will be in the form of visibility and commercial knowledge improvements, cost structure optimization, and asset efficiency, as well as value for CHEP's customers. Owner of the NA Serialization business case, rollout strategy, and time to value. Share best practices and learnings across other regions and influence the prioritization of enhancements to further the development of tracking solutions. This far reaching role is part of the established center of Digital and IoT expertise within the CHEP NA businesses

Direct Reports: 2

Total Reports: 4-8

Scope

Countries: USA and Canada

Major/Key Accountabilities

• Own Serialization+ scaling decisions and rollout plan, working with supply chain, data science teams, and consultants

• Lead development and buy-in of the business case for the serialization program as well as further investments in autonomous tracking devices

• Partner with NA business stakeholders to align objectives, build a pipeline for value creation, and develop proposed actions to use insights to deliver on key business outcomes

• Advise NA leadership and key stakeholders on the optimal deployment approach to maximize ROI

• Lead the overall program management of asset digitization initiatives

• Lead the business transformation and adoption of new tools/ dashboards, working with the regional transformation office, digital, and change management teams

• Ensure new business models developed are feasible and executable, and lead the portfolio of actions with customers, commercial teams, revenue management, and asset productivity teams

• Develop strategies and relevant pitches/value proposition to help commercial/retail teams to leverage data and statistical insights for monetization

• Collaborate with global digital and other regions to ensure necessary hypotheses are tested and ensure key metrics needed to run the business with digital data sets are understood and develop a globally consistent measurement and success metrics

• Drive and influence actions of digital resources across the supply chain and engineering teams

• Work with change management teams to effect necessary business as usual' process changes to leverage digital insights in-lieu of /complementing existing data sets

Measures

• Success will be measured: Delivery of value through asset digitization; identification of new use cases; development of robust business cases and securing buy-in/alignment.

Key contacts

Internal:

• NA ELT

• Director base across most functions

• Sales Finance/Supply Chain Finance

• Marketing and Revenue Management

• Commercial Teams (Manufacturer and Retail)

• Asset Recovery and Protection

• Supply Chain

• Brambles Digital TD/CD and Serialization teams

• Global IT

External:

• 3rd party innovation partners and consultants

Challenges

• Managing multiple regional and global stakeholders

• Working on multiple projects at once

• Analysing large volumes of structured and unstructured data

• Working with data that could be poor in quality

• Repurposing analysis for different customers

• Working effectively with existing analytics community

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Finance, Manufacturing, or other process related field

• Mix of Strategy, Learning, Innovation and Execution orientation

• Strong communication skills in managing broad range of non-direct report employees

• Seven years multi-functional experience in CHEP or MBA desired

Experience

• 10+ years in business transformation, commercial, or operational leadership roles, preferably in the supply chain/logistics space

• Track record in delivering business transformation and results through cross functional work and collaboration

• Management of complex change management and stakeholder management across multiple stakeholders

• Proven track record with business case development and buy-in for large-scale projects from senior leadership

Skills and Knowledge

• Knowledgeable with autonomous tracking devices, and software infrastructure

• Strong understanding of business structure, commercial, supply chain, and asset productivity processes and metrics at CHEP or a company with similar complexity

• Ability to identify key business challenges and opportunities that could be addressed with use of data/insights from asset digitization and serialization

• Ability to challenge status quo and create compelling case for change to newer data sets, business models, processes

• Ability to collaborate effectively within North America, and global digital teams

• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills, experience presenting to senior management teams

Languages

Essential:

• English

Preferred Education

Bachelors

Preferred Level of Work Experience

More than 10 years

Hybrid Remote

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and we are committed to developing a diverse workforce in which everyone is treated fairly, with respect, and has the opportunity to contribute to business success while realizing his or her potential. This means harnessing the unique skills and experience that each individual brings and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class.

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