Director, Supply Chain - Supply Planning

Description: • Provide a North American vision of the needs and requirements to the regional supply networks. • Assemble, design, and activate the lowest cost supply network solution, while preparing additional contingent scenarios. • Works closely with Supply Chain Optimization & Infrastructure Planning Team and Director Integrated Logistics Planning on E2E asset and sourcing projects • Build, maintain, and communicate national capacity models by plant/line for each assigned brand/package. • Consider scenarios when emergencies emerge due to unforeseen events (e.g., weather, breakdowns, material shortages, etc.) to find the best-next options to supply customer demand/orders while minimizing costs. • Play the SME role for assigned new product introductions, product changes, and product discontinuations, including participating in project meetings, submitting item set-up requests, tracking materials planning, publishing factsheets and assembling product write-off estimates. • Establish planning strategy for assigned product lines and supply network structure and work with Regional Planning to populate and maintain parameter settings in system tools to support the strategy and maximize the planning groups efficiency & accuracy. • Present business case to execute on seasonal/peak inventory pre-builds. • Lead efforts on implementing optimal multi-echelon inventory recommendations from Llamasoft/Lyric with collaboration with Region and Copackers to free up cash from working capital. • Minimize costs and maximize customer service levels. • Track and manage performance against the target inventory levels to improve NAOU's overall cash position. • Coach and collaborate with Regional Planners to best manage product supply across the Regional or National network. • Report out performance results, current business status, and future risks via Weekly Hot Spots, S&OE and S&OP meetings. • Provide structured and creative analyses to identify performance improvement opportunities. • Collaborate extensively with Network/Sourcing and Inventory Optimization Leader to operationalize recommendations from modeling software (Llamasoft/Lyric) and track actual execution and results vs. potential opportunities. • Collaborate with Forecast COE, Demand Planning, and Region teams to identify upcoming risks proactively to determine contingencies. • Mitigate risks to maximize product availability while minimizing supply chain costs with specific and actionable recommendations. • Orchestrate and execute contingency plans with collaboration and support from regional teams and Category Commercialization. • Leverage these routines to clearly communicate risks, opportunities, and contingency plans. • Exercise PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Adjust) to identify root causes and improvement opportunities. Requirements: • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, or Operations • Masters Preferred Related Work Experience • 15+ Years in Supply Chain Management, Planning, Commercialization or Operations • 5+ Years in People Management • Project Management • Business Management Technology Implementation • Anaplan, SAP, ORI, Integrated Business Planning (IBP), Lyric experience preferred • Analytical: data processing into insights and decision-making recommendations. • Communication: oral, written, presentation • PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Adjust): Closing the loop on all supply planning activities. Benefits: • A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job