Director, Supply Chain - Supply Planning

Asset Light strategy in the North America Operating Unit (NAOU), forcing greater collaboration and orchestration within the OU, as well as with co-man partners.

With growing complexities in our portfolio and operations, the Director of National Supply, Inventory, and Orbit Planning team must lead various processes. Those processes include strategic events like the National Supply Review, the Canadian S&OP routines with Sales and Category leadership, as well as Executive S&OP. The Director must be flexible to also lean in to guide and develop a team of Supply Planning Leaders and Managers on tactical matters. The Director will help develop, track, measure and improve performance against aligned KPIs.

The Director must inspire and lead deliberately, strategically, and methodically with a razor-sharp focus: continuously improve our plans to drive operating effectiveness and overall supply chain performance through scenario planning, internal and cross functional collaboration, developing next-generation team members and technologies. As more automation becomes the expectation, the Director must determine the best way to balance technology with human resources.

Function Related Activities/Key Responsibilities:

Midterm Capacity & Supply Planning

• Provide a North American vision of the needs and requirements to the regional supply networks. This role will be the face of supply planning for the Canadian region as well as the lead voice for our chilled non-Simply PET products in the US.

• 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.

Collaboration With NAOU, Region and Co-Man Operations

• 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.

Performance Tracking & Management

• Understand key supply chain performance levers (e.g., on-time delivery, total supply chain cost, operational feasibility, etc.) and seek solutions to improve these metrics.

• 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.

National & Regional S&OP/S&OE/Hot Spots

• 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.

Education and Experience 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 Functional Skills

• 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.

Skills

Leadership; Supply Chain; Innovation; Supply Chain Planning (SCP); Manufacturing; Communication; People Management; Project Management; Planning; Performance Standards; Logistics; Process Improvements; Teamwork; Collaboration