Network Planner

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The Network Planner leads the development and execution of the Business Unit's long-range supply plan, connecting demand, capacity, inventory, portfolio, and financial assumptions across a 3-to-24-month horizon. The role identifies risks and opportunities, evaluates supply scenarios and trade-offs, and translates complex data into a clear narrative that enables cross-functional alignment and informed leadership decisions.

• Network planning:
  Own the 3-24 month demand-to-capacity plan, including inventory policy, working capital requirements, and rough-cut capacity planning.
• Scenario analysis:
  Evaluate supply sufficiency, constraints, risks, opportunities, volume trade-offs, and profit-and-loss implications across multiple scenarios.
• Portfolio integration:
  Incorporate new products, discontinuations, promotions, and other portfolio decisions into inventory and capacity plans.
• Plan management:
  Maintain an accurate single plan by monitoring assumptions, constraints, performance, errors, and deviations throughout the IBP cycle.
• Constraint resolution:
  Identify long-term network bottlenecks and recommend solutions across capacity, inventory policy, and network design.
• Business narrative:
  Translate data and planning insights into a clear supply plan narrative for leadership decision-making.
• Cross-functional leadership:
  Serve as the primary long-term planning contact for the Business Unit Supply Chain team and partner with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Sourcing, Manufacturing, Logistics, and Supply Chain Services.
• Business budgeting:
  Lead supply chain assumptions for financial planning, including sourcing plans, inventory targets, production targets, and warehousing and distribution requirements.
• Planning integration:
  Connect short-term operational trends with long-range supply assumptions and contribute to the planning community of practice.
• Portfolio optimization co-lead:
  Co-lead the cross-functional portfolio optimization process, evaluating product complexity, network capacity, inventory, cost, and service implications to inform portfolio decisions and ensure alignment with long-range supply plans.
• Innovation project co-lead:
  Co-lead cross-functional innovation projects to ensure successful commercialization and product launches. Partner with key stakeholders to evaluate supply chain readiness, identify risks and constraints, assess trade-offs, and develop mitigation plans that enable successful execution and go-live.

• 7-10+ years of industry experience; consumer packaged goods or fast-moving consumer experience preferred.
• Recent sales and operations planning or supply planning experience.
• Operational supply chain experience, such as manufacturing, logistics, distribution, or inventory planning.
• Experience influencing across functions and leading people.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Engineering, Supply Chain, Predictive Analytics, or a related field.
• Proficiency with enterprise and supply planning tools;
  Kinaxis, SAP S/4
  
  HANA experience preferred.

• Strategic and forward-looking thinking
• Financial acumen, including working capital and profit-and-loss impacts
• Inventory, capacity, and network planning
• Strong data analysis and trend recognition
• Forecast model and machine-learning awareness
• Executive communication and presence
• Influencing without authority
• Fast prioritization and adaptability
• Curiosity and creative problem-solving