Goodyear. More Driven.

 

Senior Automation Lead

 

Primary Purpose of the Position

Reporting directly to the CI and RPA manager, this position will help identify, coordinate and implement automation initiatives within and outside the center, but also make sure to apply improvement and standardization concepts.                                                    

This position will also help identify, initiate, coordinate and implement automation initiatives at local/regional and global level. Working hand-in-hand with other global/regional process owners and RPA&CI and IT team members. In doing so, they will be expected to consult and coordinate a broad range of stakeholders, including internal GBS management, global/regional IT, local country leadership.    

For above activities will assist the GBS Bucharest Manager CI&RPA in ensuring that change initiatives have the needed reviews and approvals, are correctly communicated and ensure that agreed global processes are followed.           

Serve as a liaison between different teams (GBS, local, IT, Internal audit, GDPR/PII representative, 3rd party provider, etc.) and support in the gathering and analyzing business requirements to build pipeline and facilitate automation projects implementation.

Act as the Subject Matter Expert of automation in liaison with automation enthusiasts and coordinate efforts to obtain best outcome/results.                                                                            

Principle Duties and Responsibilities

Drive collection of detailed requirements across departments to define, test, elicit and deliver technical and functional requirements to developers.

Support development process by interpretation and clarification of business requirements and processes always keeping in mind and restating the target goals.

Assess the business case behind the request, the ROI for its implementation, therefore providing inputs in the prioritization process of all automations.

Ensure the accurate reporting of automation projects in center targets              

Facilitate workshops as required to bring the businesses together.                 

Serve as change agent - influence, consult, and lead efforts for sharing best practices

                             

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree in IT, Engineering, Finance or related field.

Experience and capability to manage autonomously a wide range of local/regional/global projects

 

Experience:

5+ years of total work experience in a relevant workstream (finance, procurement, customer service) environment

1-2 years of Business/System Analyst (or equivalent) experience

Minimum 1 year of developing and implementing process automations OR recent formal RPA Training completion

Agile project management exposure/experience

Proven autonomy and perseverance to drive initiatives from business need to deliverables.

Team player attitude and pro-activity in day-to-day activities.

 

Knowledge & Skills:

Demonstrated experience working successfully with teams to deliver automation solution

Advanced Excel skills, data manipulation, VBA, Power Apps

Experience prioritizing competing demands and obtaining buy-in from stakeholders

Openness to contradictory opinions and flexibility in your thinking

A willingness to jump into projects and situations and make sense of ambiguous details

Strong project and change management skills, familiarity with project management approaches and tools required

Strong communication skills with all levels of stakeholders and ability to influence others towards a common goal required

Active listening skills and ability to manage upwards and negotiate between conflicting stakeholders

Organized and structured personality, disseminating between existing information and focusing on the target.

Demonstrated flexibility to company’s culture and environment.

Excellent communication and documentation skills.  

 

Goodyear is one of the world’s largest tire companies. It employs about 74,000 people and manufactures its products in 57 facilities in 23 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centers in Akron, Ohio and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry. For more information about Goodyear and its products, go to www.goodyear.com/corporate.