Mopar North America Integrated Advanced Planning Manager

Overview

The Integrated Advanced Planning Manager leads Planning execution and system effectiveness for Mopar North America Aftersales, with primary accountability for the MARCS legacy planning system and its interaction with external suppliers and external department leads/analysts of supplier management.

This Manager is responsible for converting demand signals into executable, system-driven supply chain actions. This role ensures that demand plans are accurate, data driven, operationally feasible, and embedded into planning and replenishment systems, directly impacting service levels, inventory investment, and customer satisfaction.

The position balances:

• Analytical depth (data modeling, automation)
• Operational execution (inventory deployment, replenishment alignment)
• Process and systems thinking (legacy platforms with strong knowledge of future supply chains systems, IT enhancements, modernization)
• Highly motivated to Teach (individual must gain and disseminate knowledge to a group of over 50 planners and Leadership on system functionality plus ideas to improve)
• One of Few Super Users (individual has large scale impact that can make mass changes but also bears large risk aversion of not impacting daily operations by overlooked consequences)
• Improve overall inventory effectiveness to meet both inventory reduction and customer service improvement (1.4B as our starting baseline)

Responsibilities including but not limited to:

• Proactively identify areas to improve inventory optimization while root causing areas of excess inventory both from systems and people driven decisions.
• Manage and prioritize, bugs, fixes and enhancements with a team ICT analyst that support Forecast and Demand Planning.
• Define business requirements and review program test results for MARCS, Forecast
  2000, and adjacent systems.
• Support safety stock, reorder point, and service level policies aligned to Mopar customer commitments.
• Ensure suppliers understand and effectively consume MARCS demand signals while working in conjunction with Supplier Management teams.
• Train the Train mentality – primary contact to answer for and drive system planning functionality that drives the primary business KPIs.
• Support data governance, master data quality, and process standardization initiatives.
• Enforce and standardize workflows and system usage – address work around or process deviations with training or system improvements.

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 5+ years of previous experience in Supply Chain, ICT or related area.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to prioritize and multi-task a variety of issues while maintaining strict deadlines.
• Flexibility to adapt to evolving priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Intermediate to advanced Access and Excel skills.
• Ability to work onsite per Stellantis in person work requirements.

• Masters or Post Graduate degree in a related field.
• Strong amplitude to optimizing safety stock and reorder points to ensure maximized customer service while balancing inventory levels.
• High level of comfort working in a semi-systems type role, ability to reason through system code and rationalize through legacy system interactions.
• Strong understanding of purchasing process flows internal to Supply Chain and externally to Purchasing Organizations.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a matrixed organization.