Associate Director, Global Planning Process Lead

We are looking for an innovative Global Business Process Leader to optimize our integrated production planning processes. You will be documenting our current processes, recommending improvements, and evaluating the efficiency of changes made to our business processes. The Associate Director – Global Business Process Lead (Integrated Planning) will lead the tactical advancement of global planning through a hands on approach to a best demonstrated practice. The role will expand the adoption of our SAP (IBP) tool to improve our planning activities delivering the supply of materials, intermediates and FGs throughout our supply network.

This role will be responsible for building out the governance, cadence and standard work of the Master Production Scheduling, Production Scheduling and Material Requirements Planning They will ensure current needs are met for our manufacturing facilities as we transition expertise to SAP IBP planning. This individually contributing role will evaluate and improve current planning techniques teaching and mentoring while driving automation for our diverse multi-site division. He/she will contribute strongly to the planning and achievement of our full SAP System utilization initiative for Planning across our global 6 site network.

The successful candidate will ensure best demonstrated practices are harmonized across our sites and will manage all specified duties to ensure the monthly Supply Planning processes are completed to support the current and to be state integrated planning processes within the sites.

Key Responsibilities:

• Evaluating existing supply operational processes to improve planning at all operational levels.

• Determining and outlining business process improvements.

• Coordinating business process improvement strategies with internal stakeholders.

• Analyzing and monitoring implemented changes to business processes and making adjustments as needed.

• Revising and updating procedures and policies.

• Assist in the execution of the monthly supply planning cycle

• Ensure input from all relevant stakeholders are incorporated into supply plan

• Ensure and implement control in managing raw materials and finished goods inventory to prevent losses and/or scrap.

• Prepare supply planning input into monthly S&OP and annual budget cycles

• Ensure supply plan is inputted and maintained in relevant supply systems including SAP IBP and SAP ECC

• Ensure Supply Plans is used to drive related material, labor and asset capacity plans

• Maintain all supply related parameters and master data in relevant planning systems

• Develop (or work with Inventory Manager) to maintain inventory targets by categories and manage inventory of new and phase-out parts.

• Overseeing all aspects related to the implementation stages of business process improvement initiatives.

• Performing ongoing …