Director of Supply Chain Transformation

Bausch + Lomb, a leading global eye health business is solely focused on making people see better to live better. Our portfolio of products is strategically and precisely designed with the goal of helping millions of people worldwide address their vision and eye health needs. Bausch + Lomb is based in over 20 countries world-wide and has two sites in Ireland; Dublin & Waterford.

Our mission is simple, yet powerful: helping you see better to live better all over the world—that’s why we started and what we still strive for today. Through unwavering focus rooted in innovation, quality and craftsmanship, we continue to pursue our lifelong vision of protecting and enhancing the gift of sight through every phase of life

This is a new position that can be based in our Dublin or Waterford office.

Key Objectives of this position

• Enable Supply Chain to deliver world class performance to support Bausch + Lomb’s ambitious strategic growth plans.
• Drive accelerated change and sustainable impact through the Supply Chain organization.
• Set standards that drive transparency and efficiency to measurably improve customer service and profitability while managing working capital investment.
• Lead the establishment of world class supply chain standards in planning, inventory, transportation, distribution, customer care and trade compliance
• Redesign work through strategic process improvements and use of IT systems and tools
• Create a culture of innovation and define and implement the digitization roadmap for the Supply Chain organisation
• Provide expertise in the use of analytics and data management
• Bring outside-in, fit for purpose best practices to accelerate change

Key responsibilities

• Establish and lead a high performing global transformational team
• Create and implement a Global Supply Chain digital strategy.
• Drive continuous improvement to optimize inventory management including end to end visibility & collaborate with senior leaders to ensure alignment
• Provide expertise in the use of analytics and data, including standard KPIs that are forward looking and create actionable insight
• Ownership of all aspects of item master data including accuracy and timeliness across relevant systems.
• Provide project management for key Supply Chain initiatives including business integrations to ensure efficient operational execution of projects
• Develop strong relationships with key leaders within the business to enhance collaboration and drive value creation

Desired qualifications and experience

• Academic degree in Supply Chain management or other related fields (logistics/ Business / Industrial Engineering)
• Project Management expertise
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies
• 10+ years in supply chain functional management
• Extensive experience leading and implementing a supply chain transformation for a large and complex Supply Chain network.
• Experience in applying Supply Chain maturity models to drive change.
• Experience of applying outside-in learnings and best practices to drive change.
• Project Management experience
• Experience at a regional/global level

Bausch & Lomb is committed to equal employment opportunity and complies with equal employment opportunity laws in effect wherever it operates.