Director, Planning & Data

The Director of Planning & Data leads the company's end-to-end supply chain planning, inventory management, data, and analytics capabilities across manufacturing and distribution operations. The role is accountable for demand planning, supply planning, capacity planning, production planning and scheduling, inventory optimization, S&OP / IBP, master data governance, reporting, and advanced analytics. The Director translates customer demand and business priorities into executable supply plans while balancing customer service, capacity, inventory, working capital, and operational performance.

This leader combines strong supply chain and manufacturing expertise with data-driven decision making, systems leadership, and continuous improvement. The Director establishes scalable processes, planning discipline, governance, decision rights, and organizational capabilities while partnering with Commercial, Customer Service, Manufacturing, Procurement, Finance, and Information Technology to improve service, inventory productivity, planning effectiveness, and profitable growth.

Supply Chain Planning & S&OP / IBP

• Lead and continuously improve the integrated business planning and S&OP process across demand planning, supply planning, capacity planning, production planning and scheduling, and inventory planning.
• Partner with Commercial teams to develop and continuously improve demand forecasts, statistical forecasting methodologies, and visibility to significant changes in customer demand, product mix, and market requirements.
• Translate demand forecasts into actionable supply, capacity, inventory, production, and distribution requirements across the network.
• Ensure alignment among customer demand, manufacturing capacity, supplier capabilities, and distribution resources.
• Establish standardized planning policies, time horizons, planning parameters, governance processes, and decision rights that improve planning effectiveness, responsiveness, and execution.
• Lead network planning initiatives across manufacturing plants and distribution centers.
• Identify capacity constraints, material shortages, supplier limitations, inventory exposures, and other supply risks, and lead cross-functional mitigation and recovery plans.

Inventory Management & Optimization

• Own inventory strategy and performance across raw materials, work-in-process, and finished goods, balancing customer service, supply continuity, operational requirements, and working capital.
• Establish inventory targets, stocking strategies, safety-stock policies, replenishment parameters, and segmentation approaches based on demand variability, lead times, and service requirements.
• Drive measurable improvement in inventory turns, excess and obsolete inventory, stock availability, inventory accuracy, and overall inventory productivity.
• Identify inventory imbalances across manufacturing and distribution locations and lead actions to rebalance inventory and mitigate shortages.
• Partner with Finance, Manufacturing, Commercial, and Procurement to align inventory investments with business priorities and financial objectives.

Customer Service & Order Fulfillment

• Drive customer service and order-fulfillment performance with accountability for product availability, fill rate, lead time, and supply reliability.
• Partner with Commercial and Customer Service teams to understand customer requirements, resolve supply-related service issues, and proactively communicate constraints.
• Establish clear processes for prioritizing customer demand when capacity or inventory is constrained, ensuring decisions align with business priorities.
• Develop root-cause visibility into service failures and lead corrective and preventive actions across planning, inventory, manufacturing, and related functions.

Supply Chain Performance & Continuous Improvement

• Establish a comprehensive supply chain performance-management framework spanning service, inventory, forecasting, planning, production scheduling, and working capital.
• Develop and maintain KPIs, dashboards, management operating reviews, and escalation processes that improve visibility, accountability, responsiveness, and issue resolution.
• Monitor key measures including forecast accuracy and bias, schedule adherence, service attainment, fill rate, inventory turns, excess and obsolete inventory, stock availability, and working capital.
• Lead structured continuous improvement efforts that simplify processes, reduce waste,…