Manager, Cycle Planning

Who We Are

Lennox (NYSE: LII) Driven by 130 years of legacy, HVAC and refrigeration success, Lennox provides our residential and commercial customers with industry-leading climate-control solutions. At Lennox, we win as a team, aiming for excellence and delivering innovative, sustainable products and services. Our culture guides us and creates a workplace where all employees feel heard and welcomed. Lennox is a global community that values each team member’s contributions and offers a supportive environment for career development.

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The Manager, Life Cycle
Planning leads the strategy, people, processes, and systems required to balance supply and demand for new, active, and discontinued finished goods and repair parts. This role is accountable for delivering targeted customer service, inventory, and working capital outcomes while advancing life cycle transformation, automation, standard work, and continuous process improvement across the planning organization.

What You Will Be Doing

Leadership & Team Management

• Lead, coach, and develop life cycle planners; establish clear priorities, performance expectations, and development plans.

• Set direction for the life cycle planning function and translate business priorities into team goals, operating rhythms, and measurable outcomes.

• Allocate work, remove barriers, and provide decision support and escalation leadership for complex planning issues.

• Build planning capability through standard work, knowledge sharing, succession planning, and targeted skill development.

Life Cycle Strategy & Planning

• Own and govern end-to-end life cycle plans for assigned product portfolios across introduction, growth, maturity, decline, and phase-out.

• Lead cross-functional decisions for product launches, design changes, substitutions, transitions, last-time buys, and discontinuations.

• Balance service, inventory, cost, capacity, risk, and working capital considerations when developing supply and inventory strategies.

• Establish planning scenarios, assumptions, decision points, and contingency plans for key life cycle events.

Life Cycle Transformation

• Develop and execute a multi-year transformation roadmap that advances life cycle planning maturity, scalability, and business value.

• Redesign planning workflows, governance, roles, and decision rights to create an integrated and repeatable end-to-end process.

• Partner with Supply Chain, Operations, Product Management, Engineering, Finance, Sales, and Technology teams to drive adoption of new planning capabilities.

• Lead change management, communications, training, and sustainment activities associated with transformation initiatives.

Automation, Data & Digital Enablement

• Identify and prioritize opportunities to automate manual, repetitive, and exception-based planning activities.

• Define business requirements and partner with technology and analytics teams to develop planning tools, workflows, alerts, dashboards, and system enhancements.

• Establish controls, data standards, and ownership practices that improve data quality, decision speed, and confidence in planning outputs.

• Measure automation benefits, including capacity released, cycle-time reduction, improved accuracy, and stronger process compliance.

Process Improvement & Optimization

• Lead continuous improvement efforts that eliminate waste, reduce complexity, improve handoffs, and strengthen planning discipline.

• Map current-state processes, identify root causes and failure points, and design future-state solutions using structured problem-solving methods.

• Standardize life cycle planning policies, procedures, templates, controls, and performance routines across applicable product lines.

• Create mechanisms to monitor process health, sustain…