**What you’ll do:** Primary role is to lead the supply planning team for Global Eaton businesses. This is a senior managerial position adept at driving material planning, execution and continuous improvement for a global, multi-plant scope. The role shall involve • Rendering functional leadership in achieving strategic objectives of the Materials function • Identifying and driving high impact projects in alignment with the materials strategy and in alignment with the Business SCM • Learning, Development and Talent Management for a tiered team of managers, leads and buyers/analysts. The role will primarily focus on materials management but shall also encompass aspects of overall operations management for manufacturing. The Key Job Responsibilities include: 1. To provide leadership direction to the team which is part of GSCCoE & build a scalable and capable organization through development and deployment of standard processes across all business. 2. Have strong delivery focus with proven material planning expertise in a global, multi-ERP, multi-business model landscape. 3. Provide leadership to manager of people to manage and develop Buyer and Planner team, implement and maintain Buyer and Planner metrics. 4. Build organizational capability through development plans, mentoring, driving accountability, cross-training & succession planning would be one of the primary objectives of this position. 5. As a part of the organizational strategy, this individual will play a key role in the deployment of the newly defined responsibilities and streamlining of operations in Center of Excellence 6. The scope is further extended to increasing breadth and depth of engagement in Supply Planning, Value enhancement of current work, standardization of processes and suggesting best practices to Eaton sites with proven results. 7. Drive Key initiatives of the Materials COE Goals & priorities in People, Processes and Tools. Drive digitalization to bring more efficiency. 8. Enable the team to Own and drive Business Impact goals such as on time deliveries, inventory DOH reduction , Cost Out Opportunities, past due reduction and Excess & obsolete inventory reduction and control. Support various analytical requirements from materials management & Inventory Analytics perspective like development of replenishment methods (Min-max, ROP, Safety stock), 9. Customer Engagement and Satisfaction: – Drive customer engagement and satisfaction by meeting customer expectations and needs, build customer facing KPIs, voice of customer through periodic meetings and ensuring timely resolution to customer queries/feedback etc. To plan, schedule and manage the defined business services, delivering to agreed timescales, budget, quality criteria and commitments. 10. This individual will have to deal cross functionally with like SIOP, production, finance and leadership team. 11. Handle team dynamics by keeping the team motivated & connected, Fair performance evaluation through Strong feedback mechanism. 12. Individual will have team management responsibilities of a large tiered team. **Qualifications:** Should be Graduate with Master’s degree (Preferably into Materials / Production / Operations Management) Engineering Graduate preferred 14-18 years of relevant experience into Materials Planning, Inventory Optimization & Control. **Skills:** Should have strong functional knowledge & working experience related to Materials management & detailed understanding of concepts related to replenishment planning, MRP/ material planning & Inventory performance measures like ITR & DOH" Materials Planning and Inventory Management "Excellent communication, customer service, and interpersonal skills necessary to converse with diverse group of stakeholders including senior management, operations and Supply Chain Management personnel Proven Track record in driving Continuous Improvement projects"