Sr. Manager, Global Supply Planning

Vantive is a vital organ therapy company on a mission to extend lives and expand possibilities for patients and care teams everywhere. For 70 years, our team has driven meaningful innovations in kidney care. As we build on our legacy, we are deepening our commitment to elevating the dialysis experience through digital solutions and advanced services, while looking beyond kidney care and investing in transforming vital organ therapies.

Greater flexibility and efficiency in therapy administration for care teams, and longer, fuller lives for patients- that is what Vantive aspires to deliver.

We believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us. At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don't settle for the mediocre. Each of us is driven to help improve patients' lives worldwide. Join us in advancing our mission to extend lives and expand possibilities.

Your role at Vantive

The Manager/Sr. Manager, Global Supply Planning acts as Vantive's enterprise expert and business owner for global supply planning policies, processes, standards, and tools. This role drives end-to-end supply planning excellence across network planning, site supply planning, and procurement planning, ensuring robust supply plans, strong service levels, and optimized inventory performance.

As a hands-on supply planning subject matter expert, the role establishes global best practices, leads process governance, and strengthens planner capability across regions and business units. This person promotes consistent and disciplined planning execution, drives improvements in plan quality, and builds a cohesive global supply planning community.

Operating in a fast-moving transformation environment, this role plays a key part in elevating SIOP effectiveness by driving supply planning maturity, supporting global cadence and analytics, and enabling effective supply-demand balancing. The position also partners closely with IT, master data, and digital teams to evolve planning systems, deploy enhancements, and introduce AI-enabled automation that improves supply planning efficiency, visibility, and decision support.

What you'll be doing

Global Process Ownership & Governance

• Define, maintain, and improve global supply planning policies, standards, and tools aligned with SIOP principles.
• Lead global supply planning process governance, ensuring consistency, data integrity, analytical rigor, and adherence across regions and business units.
• Establish and maintain performance metrics (plan adherence, inventory health, capacity utilization, supply reliability/service level, etc.), drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions, and manage a continuous improvement roadmap.

Planning Excellence & Capability Building

• Coach and mentor network planners, site supply planners, procurement planners, analysts, and related functions to build skill depth, promote standard ways of working, and strengthen engagement.
• Develop and deliver training materials, playbooks, and standard work to promote global planning discipline and maturity.
• Build a cohesive planning community and foster a culture of continuous improvement and cross-regional learning.

Supply Planning Operations & Integration

• Coordinate the end-to-end global supply planning cycle, ensuring timely and high-quality handoffs, documentation, and governance.
• Drive improved inventory management, master production scheduling (operating plans), capacity planning, constraint identification, supply risk management, and scenario analysis.
• Support SIOP supply reviews, including escalation of major risks, alignment on mitigation strategies, and integration with demand and financial planning.
• Partner with commercial, manufacturing, quality, fulfillment, and finance teams to resolve issues and improve execution.

Technology, Data, & Automation

• Serve as the supply planning SME for planning and reporting systems.
• Define supply planning system requirements, partner with IT to resolve issues, deploy enhancements, and enable new capabilities.
• Identify and lead initiatives that introduce automation, AI , and…