1. Project Planning:
Translates team’s strategic objectives into operational plans; provides insight into operational feasibility of proposed strategies.
• Drives cross-functional and cross-geographical alignment to strategic plans and goals.
• Recognizes and flags internal or external impacts to strategies and plans; leads team in characterizing the impacts and revising plans, as appropriate.
• Coordinates inputs into asset valuation and prioritization evaluations.
2. Ensures China asset plan is in place and kept current
• Ensures operational plans align with and support strategic plans.
• Ensures that cost, time, and quality parameters are clearly outlined in the plans.
• Ensures plans are kept current at all times; drives team to timely updating of plans.
3. Drives creation and maintenance of China asset plan, ensuring discrete deliverables are well characterized with associated timing, resources, quality parameters, interdependencies across lines, and risk and mitigation plans.
• Ensures plan is realistic in terms of time and resources required.
• Leads the process for evaluation, optimization and planning of alternative operational options.
• Ensures cross-functional team commitment to the plans.
• Negotiates the allocation of line resources to the plans.