Sr Supply Chain Specialist - Sumitomo Biorational LLC

About Sumitomo Biorational Company

Headquartered in Libertyville, Ill., Sumitomo Biorational Company is the Global Center of Excellence for Biorational Innovation, advancing integrated, science-driven solutions in agriculture, public health, forest health, and environmental markets. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd., Sumitomo Biorational operates through three divisions:
Agro Solutions, Environmental Health (MGK), and Public Health & Forest Health, leveraging decades of expertise to drive innovation and sustainability for customers worldwide.

The Senior Tolling Specialist is responsible for end-to-end management of outsourced manufacturing (tolling) supply chain planning. This role plays a critical strategic role in balancing customer service, inventory optimization, and total supply chain cost in alignment with SBC strategy.

The Senior Tolling Specialist leads planning and coordination activities across tolling partners, including production planning, material flows, inventory management, and performance monitoring to ensure product availability to meet customer needs. In close collaboration with the External Manufacturing Manager, this position will report and prepare mitigates action plan for supply risks, evaluate capacity scenarios, and drive continuous improvement initiatives for better planning cycles.

Key responsibilities include developing and maintaining weekly and monthly production plans at toll manufacturers aligned with demand plans, assessing constraints, and proactively managing trade-offs between service, cost, and inventory. The role goes beyond execution by modeling planning scenarios, identifying risks and opportunities, and recommending structural process improvements to strengthen supply chain resilience.

The Senior Tolling Specialist is also accountable for maintaining accurate ERP transactions related to toll manufacturing, including raw material receipts, consumption postings, and finished goods receipts, PO approval/releases, ensuring inventory visibility and financial integrity.

This role serves as a focal point for Supply Chain Planning interface between Purchasing, Customer Service, Material Planning, Master Scheduling, and External Manufacturing. Through strong cross-functional leadership, the Senior Tolling Specialist ensures alignment across functions, supports service-level objectives, and drives performance excellence across the tolling network.

• Own and develop the end-to-end Annual and Monthly Production Plans for Finished Goods & Formulations across assigned toll manufacturers, ensuring alignment with demand, capacity, inventory targets, and financial objectives.
• Work closely with external tollers to define, validate, and execute production plans, including subcontract POs, AI staging, blending, and finished goods manufacturing, while monitoring and challenging toller capacity plans and constraints.
• Build and manage pre-building production strategies to support seasonal peaks, demand variability, risk mitigation, and service-level targets.
• Lead the Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) process, managing finished goods repositioning across distribution centers to optimize availability, service levels, and inventory balance.
• Plan the supply chain to accommodate successfully the new product introduction request, coordinating AI, raw materials, packaging materials, toller readiness, logistics flows, and SAP master data readiness.
• Manage third-party raw materials and packaging materials end-to-end, including availability, staging, logistics coordination, consumption, and reconciliation.
• Lead and manage end-to-end annual production campaigns at specific tollers by AI, raw material, and packaging scope, ensuring seamless execution from material receipt through conversion into finished goods and inventory staging in SAP.
• Ensure logistics flow will happen as planned, by doing the coordination related to toll manufacturing, including inbound raw and packaging materials, intercompany or third-party transport, and outbound finished goods movement.
• Manage and control subcontract purchase orders in SAP, including goods receipt, consumption postings, finished goods receipt, and material variance analysis, ensuring financial and inventory accuracy.
• Execute and govern SAP transactions related to toll manufacturing, ensuring strict alignment with Quality, Regulatory, Compliance and DOA requirements, and supporting audit readiness (excluding AtoZ).
• Act as the primary supply chain focal point in business reviews, partnering closely with Sales and Marketing to translate growth plans and commercial strategies into executable, resilient, and cost-effective supply chain plans.
• Work in partnership with the Demand Manager to evaluate changes in demand forecasts and business assumptions, assess impact on production schedules, inventory levels, toller capacity, and service risk, and propose mitigation scenarios.
• Model alternative planning scenarios…