Global Process Owner, Acquire to Retire

Closing Date: January 10, 2025

Teck is a leading Canadian resource company focused on responsibly providing the metals essential for global development and the energy transition while caring for the people, communities and land that we love. 

Teck's two regional business units, North America and Latin America, are responsible for Teck's assets through all phases of safe, sustainable development, operation and closure. The business units are supported by enterprise-wide functions that set strategic direction, establish standards and provide governance, as well as supporting the business through shared services, centres of excellence and business partnering. 

The Global Process Owner (GPO) defines, maintains and standardizes critical processes that are mandated across the enterprise including uniform delivery of services, where applicable.

This includes oversight and responsibility for defining, maintaining, and improving a specific process (or processes) to ensure alignment with organizational goals. This role emphasizes operational efficiency, effectiveness, and adaptability, supporting business outcomes indirectly by ensuring robust and integrated processes.

Reporting to the Manager, Asset Management, the GPO, Acquire to Retire will focus on the acquire to retire process including overall work management, planning and execution of maintenance on operations equipment, optimizing maintenance strategy, increasing the life of the equipment, and its availability and performance.

Responsibilities

• Be a courageous safety leader, adhere to and sponsor safety and environmental rules and procedures

• Supports upstream and downstream data requirements by collaborating with multiple teams including the Transformation Management Office, Enterprise Resource Planning (to align integration points), Enterprise Operating Model (to develop and implement the function-specific plans), and other functional leads (to identify cross-functional initiatives)

• Decides global business process, influences functional leaders and stakeholders in adopting optimized processes and implementing changes across their operations, and supports functional leaders by providing insights into process inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement.

Governance and Compliance

• Define and document process workflows, tools, and guidelines.

• Ensure alignment with organizational standards, governance policies, and compliance requirements.

• Ensure continuous improvement, process optimization and strategic alignment.

• Maintain a process-to-service map to link processes with their corresponding service outcomes

• Support process standardization across the company assets including organizational change management aspects as well as training and mentoring.

• Ensure compliance with internal controls, regulatory requirements, and organizational standards.

• Ensure process governance, monitoring, and compliance across the organization

Process Management

• Monitor process performance metrics, focusing on efficiency, effectiveness, and agility.

• Identify and address bottlenecks or inefficiencies.

• Regularly review and improve processes to adapt to changing business or technological needs

• Drive strategic alignment by ensuring process performance management delivers measurable outcomes, positioning the organization within the top quartile Total Shareholder RetSR.

Responsibilities Continued

Change and Risk Management

• Proactively identify risks and implement controls to mitigate them.

• Drive process-related change initiatives in alignment with transformation goals

Training and Capability Development

• Educate and train teams on best practices, tools, and standards.

• Act as a resource for knowledge sharing on process management within the organization

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required in supply chain management, business, engineering or a related field

• An MBA with a focus on supply chain management or Supply Chain Management Professional (SCMP) or equivalent qualification is preferred

• Minimum 12 years of progressive experience in project management or business transformation with advanced knowledge of the industry required. Extensive experience in the metals and mining industry and supply chain management with a proven track record of increased responsibility and leadership accountability

• Extensive experience with SAP, including core ERP and supply chain enabling technologies like Ariba, Field Glass, and SAP Business Network

• Experience working in an international organization, supporting executive-level decision-making, and implementing cross-organizational initiatives

• Strong ability to work across functional and geographical boundaries, building collaborative relationships to drive process integration and adoption

• Clear communication and influencing skills including significant conflict resolution skills between leaders, business owners and functional teams

• Ability to align process design with strategic objectives while ensuring operational efficiency at a global scale

• Skilled at leading process transformation initiatives and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation

• Ability to assess complex business processes, identify inefficiencies, and propose data-driven solutions for improvement

• Expertise in handling end-to-end supply chain processes, understanding how to map system dependencies, outputs, root causes, and de-bottlenecking

• Proficiency in data and analytics to drive supply chain performance by analyzing trends, identifying improvements, and making data-driven decisions

• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 20% of the time

Why Join Us?

At Teck, we offer more than just a job – we provide a pathway to personal and professional enrichment. With captivating projects set against stunning backdrops, a culture of inclusivity and collaboration, and boundless opportunities to learn and grow, joining us means embracing a fulfilling and dynamic career adventure. 

Teck employees receive access to our total rewards program and comprehensive benefits package that promote physical, mental, financial, and emotional well-being. This includes but is not limited to:  

• Annual Performance Bonus 
• Profit Share Plan 
• Health Spending Account   
• Personal Spending Account 
• Extended Health Care   
• Dental and Vision Care 
• Employer Paid Pension Plan 
• Life Insurance and Disability Coverage  
• Paid Sick Leave, Vacation and Holidays      
• Virtual Telemedicine and additional support for overall well-being 
• Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP)    

Salary Range: $160,000 - $200,000 

The actual base salary offered is determined based on the successful candidate’s relevant experience, skills, and competencies and considers internal equity. 

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