Manager, SKU Transfer - NA Transformation

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Chicago, US, 60654

At Barry Callebaut, we are on a journey to transform the cocoa and chocolate industry. As the world’s leading manufacturer of high-quality chocolate and cocoa products, our actions truly shape the future of our industry. We are a business-to-business company, serving the entire food sector, from the cocoa bean to the finest chocolate product. We are a company with a purpose, we believe in doing well by doing good and reinvesting in the communities we operate.

We have a long-standing commitment to sustainability and our goal is to shape a sustainable cocoa and chocolate future.

We are headquartered in Zurich, and have more than 12,000 passionate Employees working in more than 40 countries worldwide.

We are very proud of who we are and what we do. And of course, we are always looking for talented people to help us have a positive impact on our industry and beyond!

As Manager SKU Transfer, NA Transformation, you are accountable for steering, prioritizing, and optimizing the portfolio of product reallocation and network change projects across the region, contributing to building a flexible, agile and resilient supply network. You act as the link between network strategy and shopfloor execution by integrating portfolio ownership, process leadership, readiness governance, and cross functional alignment.

You maintain a clear and consolidated overview of all re‑allocation initiatives, including their interdependencies with NPIs and other functional activities. You ensure a structured and effective intake and evaluation process so that new requests are assessed on value, risk, complexity, required effort, and timeline options.

You are responsible for driving the right prioritization, sequencing, and resource allocation by aligning portfolio decisions with regional and global supply strategies, site capacity realities, and the key drivers for reallocation such as capacity flexibility, cost optimization, business continuity readiness, regulatory needs, and market shifts.

You hold accountability for regional readiness and resource load management, ensuring that plants and functions are prepared for upcoming trials, validations, and ramp up or ramp down periods. You provide leadership with transparent, decision-ready scenarios highlighting implications, risks, and recommended mitigation actions to avoid overload or conflicting priorities.

As the Regional Transfer Business Process Owner, you oversee the end-to-end transfer process, including governance, templates, standards, system ownership, performance tracking, and continuous improvement. You work closely with Tactical Planning, FSQR, CI & TS, Process Excellence, and Local Supply Planning to ensure readiness, compliance, and predictable execution across all sites.

A key part of this role is building and leading the Site Supply Chain (SC) SPOC community by ensuring each plant has a capable, trained, and well-connected local owner who drives the transfer and integration agenda at site level.

This role is a key enabler of a flexible, resilient, and future ready supply network.

• Own and maintain a clear, structured, and consolidated overview of product re-allocation projects in the region, including their interdependencies with NPI and other cross-functional initiatives.
• Ensure effectiveness of the intake and evaluation process for product re-allocation requests and network changes, including evaluation criteria on value, risk, complexity, required efforts, timeline scenarios.
• Drive prioritization, sequencing, and resource allocation, by aligning portfolio decisions with strategic supply planning objectives, plant capacity constraints and the…