Solutions Design Lead

**Main responsabilities: 🔹 End-to-End Manufacturing Process Expertise** * Define and validate **end-to-end manufacturing processes**, including: * Production execution, tank, packaging, labeling, and inventory updates * Warehouse flows (receiving, put-away, picking, shipping) * Traceability across materials, batches, and handling units * Ensure processes reflect **real operational practices**, including: * Manual interventions * Exceptions (rework, scrap, damaged products) **🔹 MES / MOM Functional Leadership** * Translate operational needs into **clear, implementable functional requirements** * Support definition of capabilities such as: * Real-time production tracking (WIP, scrap, rework) * Tank production and inventory * Packaging and labeling execution * Inventory synchronization and genealogy * Ensure alignment and integration with: * ERP systems (SAP) * Loading / shipping / receiving * Quality systems (LIMS) * WMS * Shopfloor systems (SCADA/PLC) **🔹 S&OP Alignment and Feasibility** * Bridge planning and execution by ensuring: * Production plans are **feasible and aligned with plant constraints** * Supply chain decisions reflect **real operational capabilities** * Support the S&OP cycle: * Demand review → Supply review → Reconciliation → Management Business Review **🔹 Plant Engagement & Validation** * Work closely with plant teams to: * Validate process designs on-site * Identify gaps between “standard processes” and real execution * Adapt solutions to varying plant maturity levels and automation capabilities **🔹 Standardization with Flexibility** * Contribute to defining: * Global process templates * Controlled plant-level adaptations * Ensure solutions are: * Scalable across plants * Adapted to local operational realities **🔹 Vendor & Solution Evaluation** * Participate in vendor selection and solution design: * RFI/RFP processes * Functional validation workshops * Technical demos and fit-for-purpose assessments **Qualifications & Skills** * 5–10+ years of **hands-on manufacturing experience**, ideally in Production / plant operations or Packaging or inventory-intensive environments * Proven exposure to Manufacturing processes and shopfloor operations and Interaction with MES/MOM or related systems * Experience in **multi-plant or global environments** with high variability * Knowledge of MES and ERP (SAP) integration; Traceability and inventory management processes * Ideally background in industries such as Mining, materials, chemicals, or process manufacturing ### **Key Competencies** * ### Strong **process-oriented thinking** (not system-driven) * Ability to translate **best practices into practical solutions** * Understanding of **end-to-end manufacturing data flows** (ERP ↔ MES ↔ LIMS ↔ shopfloor) * Excellent stakeholder collaboration across Operations, Supply Chain, IT, and Business teams **What do we offer?** * Hybrid Work Model: Flexibility to work from home and in the office, helping you achieve a healthy work-life balance. * Ticket Restaurant: Enjoy a daily meal allowance to support your well-being. * Flexible retribution: Kindergarten & Transport * 30 Labor Days of Holidays: Ample time off to relax and recharge. * Language Lessons: Access to language lessons to help you grow both personally and professionally. * Medical Insurance: 60% company-subsidized medical insurance for employees, with the option to extend coverage to family members at a highly competitive rate. * Open and Modern Office Environment: Work in a collaborative, innovative, and comfortable space designed for your success