VP Demand Planning, Supply Chain Data & Analytics

Location:

Columbus, OH

Category :
Supply Chain/Logistics/Procurement

The Vice President provides enterprise leadership for demand planning, supply chain analytics, digital supply chain capabilities, systems strategy, integrated business prioritization, and supply chain financial planning. This role is responsible for transforming data, forecasting, technology, and financial insights into actionable business decisions that optimize capital deployment, material availability, supply chain performance, and enterprise value creation. The position serves as the strategic leader for demand management, analytics, control tower visibility, systems enablement, project delivery, and supply chain budgeting processes across the enterprise.

As a key enterprise partner, this leader works closely with Operations, Engineering, Finance, Procurement, Project Management, and Regulatory organizations to drive operational excellence, financial stewardship, risk management, technology transformation, and scalable capabilities that support AEP's long‑term growth strategy.

What You'll Do:

Enterprise Demand Planning & Integrated Prioritization

• Develop and execute AEP's enterprise supply chain demand planning strategy.
• Lead the development and execution of enterprise demand planning strategies that align capital investment plans, operational requirements, material demand, supplier capacity, and business priorities.
• Establish integrated planning processes that enable visibility and prioritization across capital projects, operational work, maintenance activities, and strategic initiatives.
• Provide executive leadership for demand forecasting, scenario planning, portfolio analysis, and resource prioritization to support enterprise decision-making.
• Ensure alignment between supply chain capabilities, procurement strategies, inventory planning, and enterprise capital deployment objectives.
• Develop governance frameworks that optimize resource allocation, mitigate planning risks, and improve enterprise investment outcomes.

Digital Supply Chain, Analytics & Control Tower

• Establish and lead AEP's digital supply chain strategy, leveraging advanced analytics, automation, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies to improve operational performance and decision-making.
• Provide executive oversight for enterprise supply chain analytics, business intelligence, performance reporting, predictive modeling, and data governance capabilities.
• Develop and maintain control tower capabilities that provide end-to-end visibility into demand, supply, inventory, logistics, supplier performance, and capital project readiness.
• Drive the adoption of data‑driven decision-making across Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Finance, and Project Management organizations.
• Lead the development of enterprise metrics, dashboards, and analytical frameworks that improve forecasting accuracy, risk visibility, service performance, and financial outcomes.
• Establish data management and governance standards that promote transparency, consistency, accuracy, and enterprise‑wide utilization of supply chain information.

• Provide executive oversight for supply chain systems strategy, application support, business process enablement, and technology investment planning.
• Lead the prioritization and delivery of major supply chain systems implementations, upgrades, integrations, and transformation initiatives.
• Partner with Information Technology and business leaders to ensure technology roadmaps support enterprise supply chain objectives, scalability requirements, and long‑term business strategy.
• Establish governance and performance measures for technology…