Sr. Manager, Demand & Inventory Process Excellence

Company Overview Why Choose Us?

Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging that supports multiple industries including food service, restaurant delivery and carryout, food processing, grocery and retail, and industrial sectors. Novolex manufacturing and sourcing expertise spans a diverse range of substrates including resin, paper, molded fiber, aluminum and more. We provide customers a broad array of stock and customized solutions with 120 product categories, 250 brands and over 39,000 SKUs.

The Novolex sustainability vision is built upon three pillars: our products, our operations and our people. Each is critically important to our growth and future as a business. These pillars form the foundation of our company-wide commitment to sustainability, helping us achieve our ambitious goals through our wide-ranging initiatives.

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Role Overview

The Lead, Demand & Inventory Process Excellence owns the enterprise standards, policies, and governance for demand planning and inventory management within the SIOP operating model. This role ensures that demand forecasts and inventory targets are unbiased, policy-compliant, decision-ready, and align to enterprise objectives.

This role exists to govern how demand and inventory plans are created, not to create the plans themselves – providing assurance, discipline, and transparency so SIOP decisions are credible, comparable, and executable across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

Demand & Inventory Policy Governance

• Define and maintain enterprise demand planning and inventory management standards
• Govern forecasting methodologies, consensus rules, and bias thresholds
• Own segmentation frameworks and inventory policy principles
• Ensure consistent application of demand and inventory standards across business units

Planning Discipline & Assurance

• Audit demand planning and inventory processes for compliance with enterprise standards
• Identify gaps in planning discipline, data usage, and adherence to policy
• Certify demand and inventory readiness entering SIOP forums
• Ensure assumptions, methodologies, and targets are decision-ready

SIOP Integration

• Serve as the Process Excellence authority for demand and inventory topics within SIOP
• Partner closely with Analytics to align metric definitions, diagnostics, and insight usage
• Support Demand Consensus and Pre-SIOP with governance perspective, not analytical ownership
• Escalate policy conflicts, bias risks, and structural demand/inventory issues to the Director

Maturity & Continuous Improvement

• Assess demand and inventory planning maturity and policy effectiveness
• Drive continuous improvement in planning standards, governance rigor, and assurance methods
• Contribute to enterprise SIOP maturity roadmaps and governance evolution

Leadership & Capability Development

• Lead and develop Process & Policy Analysts supporting demand and inventory governance
• Build repeatable audit tools, templates, and standards documentation
• Act as a subject-matter authority on demand and inventory governance across Supply Chain

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Statistics, Operations, Industrial Engineering, or a related field
• 8+ years of experience in demand planning, inventory strategy, or integrated planning environments
• Hands-on experience in S&OP / SIOP operating models
• Strong working knowledge of forecasting methods, inventory policy, and segmentation strategies

Core Competencies

• Planning standards and policy design
• Forecast evaluation and bias identification
• Inventory strategy and capital efficiency
• Process auditing and assurance
• Cross-functional collaboration and influence
• Governance mindset with strong business judgement

Success Measures

• Forecast bias maintained within defined policy thresholds
• Inventory targets consistently aligned to enterprise policy
• Demand and inventory readiness scores at SIOP
• Closure rate of audit findings and governance gaps
• Increased confidence in demand and inventory inputs to executive SIOP

A reasonable estimate of the current range is $150,000-$170,000+ bonus + benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and…