**Supply Chain Excellence Lead** Our story goes back more than 150 years, to the chilly southern coast of Scandinavia. From our early success in Sweden and Denmark, we’ve grown into the world’s leading specialist producer of plant\-based oils, employing more than 4,000 people across the globe. We work with our customers to make the products you love even better. The oils we produce go into making your chocolate extra\-creamy or putting the crunch into your croissant. And it’s not just food — we work across industries to make products that are higher quality, healthier and better for the planet. Everything we do is about **Making Better Happen™.** **AAK LOCATION** This position can be based on site in Karlshamn, Sweden, Hull, UK, Morelia, Mexico or Jundiaí, Brazil. **About the role** The Supply Chain Excellence Lead is responsible for driving the governance, coordination, and execution of AAK's global supply chain excellence and transformation agenda. The role ensures that strategic priorities are translated into actionable roadmaps, effective governance, measurable objectives, and sustainable organizational change that delivers business value. Acting as the primary facilitator of the Supply Chain Leadership Team (SCLT), the role enables alignment across regions, functions, and leadership teams by coordinating strategic initiatives, supporting decision\-making, tracking commitments, and ensuring consistent execution of the global supply chain agenda. It serves as the critical link between strategy and execution, fostering accountability, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and capability development across the global supply chain organization. Working in a highly matrixed global environment, the Supply Chain Excellence Lead partners with senior leaders and stakeholders across Commercial, CD\&I, Procurement, Manufacturing, Logistics, regional Supply Chain teams, functional discipline leads, and other corporate functions. The role also represents Supply Chain in cross\-functional transformation programs and strategic projects, requiring confident participation in multidisciplinary discussions and the ability to build alignment without direct authority. Success in this position depends on strong influencing, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills, combined with the ability to navigate ambiguity, drive organizational alignment, and coordinate initiatives across multiple functions, regions, and time zones. The role regularly prepares and presents executive\-level materials, translating complex transformation activities into clear, concise, and decision\-ready insights that support effective leadership decisions. This is a strategic, non\-operational role focused on enabling organizational performance through governance, continuous improvement, communication, and change management rather than day\-to\-day supply chain execution. There are no direct reports. **Responsibilities** * Manage the operating rhythm of the Supply Chain Leadership Team (SCLT), including agendas, meeting preparation, governance routines, decision logs, action tracking, and follow\-up activities. * Translate strategic priorities into actionable initiatives by establishing clear ownership, governance, milestones, performance measures, and execution roadmaps. * Facilitate alignment between global supply chain strategy and regional execution, ensuring consistent prioritization, collaboration, and accountability across functions and geographies. * Coordinate the global portfolio of Supply Chain transformation initiatives, monitoring progress, managing interdependencies, identifying risks, and escalating issues to support timely decision\-making and successful delivery. * Develop and maintain governance frameworks, project standards, reporting structures, dashboards, and performance metrics that provide leadership with clear visibility into transformation progress and business outcomes. * Support initiative sponsors and leadership teams throughout the planning, execution, and benefit realization phases of strategic initiatives. * Develop and implement change management strategies that enable successful adoption of new processes, systems, operating models, and ways of working across the global Supply Chain organization. * Lead stakeholder engagement and communication activities, including change impact assessments, readiness planning, communication campaigns, and adoption measurement. \- Promote a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and organizational learning by facilitating \- Communities of Practice, cross\-functional knowledge sharing, and best practice exchange across regions and disciplines. * Support the development and maturity of the Global Supply Chain Center of Excellence through capability\-building initiatives, competency development, training programs, workshops, and leadership events. * Drive the adoption of Supply Chain methodologies, governance practices, digital capabilities, and continuous improvement princip