Assoc. Dir, Supply Chain Management M/F/D

Join Our Team as Associate Director, Supply Chain Management

Role Summary

The Associate Director, Supply Chain Management will be the Global Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) Lead for Technology Solutions. Primarily, this person will be the owner and facilitator of the Regional and Executive S&OPs executed in collaboration with Demand Planning, Marketing, Finance, and Supply Chain. This person will act as the liaison between commercial and supply stakeholders to ensure supply continuity over the 0-to-36-month horizon. Additionally, this person will support and facilitate rollout of critical business processes such as Integrated Demand Planning (IDP) and long-range capacity planning. Lastly, this person will aid colleagues in developing the centralized production plan for the identification line of business.

Key Responsibilities

• Owner of the global S&OP process
  • Coordinate creation of monthly S&OP presentation and lead meetings across the regions and lines of business
• Work with demand planning and marketing to assure timely and accurate demand forecasting
  • Support Integrated Demand Planning (IDP) rollout throughout identification business
• Confirm production plans are aligned with commercial requirements and work to identify gaps
  • Escalate and resolve supply gaps in collaboration with site and/or external supply
• Drive accountability in closing action items stemming from S&OP
• Implement process improvements to S&OP to assure appropriate flow of monthly meetings and review of necessary topics
  • E.g. Demand review, pre-S&OP, S&OP, Executive S&OP
• Leverage existing demand and supply metrics to validate forecasts and supply plans are on track
  • Confirm accuracy and validity of calculations
  • Rollout new metrics if required by the needs of the business
• Additionally, support creation of the global manufacturing production plan for the livestock identification
  • Process led by GSCM, but individual will become secondary point of contact for centralized production plan
  • Coordinate with various stakeholders to determine all critical inputs and outputs
  • Work with SMEs to help rollout existing capacity planning tool across the organization

Required Credentials:

• Minimum 5 years in leading or supporting S&OP
• Fluent in English

Preferred Credentials:

• B.S. in Supply Chain Management
• ASCM (APICS) Certification
• 5 to 10 years of supply planning experience
• SAP and/or Aera experience
• Proficient in Excel
• Demonstrated ability to influence others
• Strong cross-functional relationship skills

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