Senior Supply Chain Planner
The Opportunity
A global manufacturing organization is seeking a Senior Supply Chain Planner to support its growing North American operations. This individual will take ownership of supply planning activities across a complex manufacturing network, helping balance customer demand with production capabilities, material availability, and inventory objectives.
This position will play an important role within the S&OP process, partnering closely with manufacturing, operations, commercial, product, and technical teams to identify supply risks, improve inventory performance, and ensure customer requirements can be met.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead supply planning activities to align forecasted demand with production capacity, materials, and inventory availability.
- Facilitate supply review meetings and provide planning insights, performance metrics, risks, and recommendations to key stakeholders.
- Translate demand forecasts into actionable production and capacity plans across manufacturing operations.
- Identify potential supply constraints, material shortages, and capacity challenges and develop appropriate recovery or mitigation plans.
- Establish and monitor inventory targets while balancing customer service, working capital, and operational needs.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to reduce excess, obsolete, and slow-moving inventory.
- Develop scenario plans to evaluate supply alternatives and support business decisions during capacity or material constraints.
- Coordinate planning activities related to new product launches, product transitions, transfers, and discontinuations.
- Monitor key supply chain metrics including inventory coverage, service levels, production performance, and delivery performance.
- Serve as a key connection point between supply chain, manufacturing, commercial, product management, and technical stakeholders.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Business, or a related discipline preferred, or equivalent professional experience.
- 7+ years of supply chain experience, ideally with significant responsibility for supply or production planning.
- Experience working within a manufacturing environment, with chemical, speciality materials, or process manufacturing experience highly desirable.
- Strong understanding of S&OP processes, including supply reviews, capacity planning, inventory management, and demand/supply balancing.
- Experience identifying and resolving production, inventory, capacity, and material constraints.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate data into actionable recommendations.
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and experience working within ERP or advanced planning systems.
- Experience with SAP/APO, Kinaxis, or similar planning platforms is highly desirable.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to influence and collaborate across multiple functions.
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