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Eastman Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Service Architect in Kingsport, Tennessee
Founded in 1920, Eastman is a global specialty materials company that produces a broad range of products found in items people use every day. With the purpose of enhancing the quality of life in a material way, Eastman works with customers to deliver innovative products and solutions while maintaining a commitment to safety and sustainability. The company’s innovation-driven growth model takes advantage of world-class technology platforms, deep customer engagement, and differentiated application development to grow its leading positions in attractive end markets such as transportation, building and construction, and consumables. As a globally inclusive and diverse company, Eastman employs approximately 14,000 people around the world and serves customers in more than 100 countries. The company had 2023 revenue of approximately $9.2 billion and is headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee, USA. For more information, visit www.eastman.com.
Responsibilities
The IT Service Architect for Integrated Business Planning (IBP) is a pivotal role within Eastman, whose main objective is to align technology solutions with business strategies, advancing IBP maturity, adoption, and value creation across the enterprise. This goal is achieved by designing robust solutions with OMP and SAP, building cross functional partnerships based on credibility and trust, leveraging deep IBP knowledge to positively impact the overall direction of the domain, supporting large corporate projects from scoping to deployment, ensuring consistent day-to-day operations, and facilitating discussions in an effective and impactful way.
• Serve as the IT architect for IBP initiatives, ensuring consistent delivery and operations across the enterprise to support business strategy and managed service offerings • Collaborate with business leadership and the IBP Center of Excellence to develop a detailed solutions delivery roadmap • Lead workshops and facilitate discussions that meet business requirements, while promoting standard technology offerings and industry best practices • Take a proactive approach to identify opportunities for overcoming business challenges and proposing innovative solutions to complex problems • Support and lead enterprise projects, including scoping, design, execution, and testing, while providing in-depth knowledge of the IBP domain • Ensure the integrity of IBP solution design while maintaining a strategic enterprise view by collaborating with other Architects and delivery teams to identify common needs and capabilities • Design robust end-to-end planning solutions, combining OMP’s unison platform (Forecasting, S&OP, and OPR), SAP ERP execution (SAP-PP, SAP-PP/PI, SAP-MM), and Reporting (SAP, BI Data Warehouse) to achieve defined business outcomes, focusing on automation, core planning functionality, interfaces, workflows, and data management • Design solutions for seamless integration with the IBP technology ecosystem • Ensure the design and implementation of solutions addresses appropriate security measures regarding risk mitigation • Guide IT delivery teams and business partners in process and solution support, ensuring alignment with architectural direction • Collaborate to identify technical debt, develop remediation plans, and drive innovation through proof-of-concept activities • Mentor and ensure adherence to business and technology best practices
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in one of the following areas: Information Technology, Computer Science, Supply Chain, Operations Management, Data Science, or Engineering is required • Minimum of 6 years of experience in IT or IT-adjacent roles, with a focus on IBP or related Supply Chain processes • Minimum of 2 years of experience in design and implementation of IBP solutions, such as Forecasting/Demand Planning, S&OP and detailed planning / scheduling (OMP Preferred) • Minimum of 2 years of experience in an architectural or related role • Demonstrated expertise in IT architecture, including principles, frameworks, and agile practices • Experience with cloud-based software and platforms is preferred • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions • Excellent written and verbal communicator, facilitates large workshops and small conversations with equal levels of effectiveness • Knowledge and experience of integration of the planning function with Commercial, Marketing, Finance, Manufacturing, Quality, Materials Management, Sales and Distribution, Sourcing, Logistics and Costing functions. • Extensive hands-on experience in Demand Planning, Statistical Forecasting, Consumption-Based Planning, Reorder Point Planning, MRP, MPS, Long-Term Planning, Capacity Planning, Production Scheduling, Batch Management, and Serial Number Management for both discrete and process industries • Proficient in Supply Chain Planning Master Data Maintenance, including Material Master, Bills of Material, Work Centers, Routings, Vendor Master, Customer Master, Info Records, Source Lists, Schedule Agreements, and Contracts. • OMP Author certification or Contributor Certification preferred • Industry leading supply chain certification, such as, APICS CPIM, IBF CPF, IBF ACPF preferred
Eastman Chemical Company is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected classes as designated by law.
Eastman is committed to creating a powerfully diverse workforce and a broadly inclusive workplace, where everyone can contribute to their fullest potential each day.
