Sr. Manager, S&OP & Network Planning

IP Corporation is a privately held, family‑owned chemical manufacturing organization with more than 70 years of stability, innovation, and growth. Headquartered in Minnesota, IP Corporation supports a portfolio of operating companies that manufacture and distribute resins, gel coats, composite materials, and specialty polymer solutions used across a wide range of industrial applications.

Our operating companies—Interplastic Corporation, North American Composites, HK Research, and Molding Products—work together to deliver technical expertise, high‑quality products, and long‑term partnerships to customers around the world. We are known for our customer‑first mindset, strong technical capabilities, and collaborative culture built on trust, accountability, and continuous improvement.

The Senior Manager, S&OP & Network Planning is responsible for building, leading, and continuously improving the enterprise Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process across our manufacturing network. This highly visible leadership role serves as the central integrator between commercial, operations, finance, procurement, and supply chain teams to ensure demand, supply, inventory, capacity, and financial objectives remain aligned.

In addition to owning the S&OP process, this role provides strategic oversight of network planning while supporting production scheduling activities when needed. Success in this position requires a strategic mindset, strong analytical skills, and the ability to influence cross‑functional teams across multiple operating companies.

• Design, implement, and continuously improve the end‑to‑end S&OP process across eight manufacturing locations and multiple operating companies.
• Establish governance, planning calendars, standard work, and decision‑making frameworks that drive consistency across the organization.
• Facilitate executive‑level S&OP meetings while driving alignment between commercial, operations, finance, and supply chain leadership.
• Integrate demand, supply, inventory, capacity, and financial objectives into a unified operating plan.
• Lead scenario planning and "what‑if" analyses to support strategic business decisions.
• Translate business strategy into actionable supply, inventory, and capacity plans.
• Identify operational risks, capacity constraints, and business tradeoffs while developing mitigation strategies.
• Measure performance against S&OP plans and drive accountability across the enterprise.

• Partner with demand planning, procurement, manufacturing, and operations teams to develop feasible production plans.
• Balance customer demand with manufacturing capacity, inventory levels, and material availability.
• Develop contingency plans for supply, labor, or capacity constraints.
• Promote planning consistency across operating companies while accounting for site‑specific operational needs.
• Oversee Network Planning & Production Scheduling
• Provide strategic oversight of production planning across the manufacturing network.
• Develop and maintain enterprise‑level master production schedules aligned with S&OP outputs.
• Support and mentor plant schedulers to ensure local execution aligns with corporate priorities.
• Provide hands‑on scheduling support during critical business needs or staffing gaps.
• Monitor capacity utilization and manufacturing constraints while communicating impacts to business leadership.

• Develop dashboards and reporting that provide visibility into planning performance across the organization.
• Monitor key planning metrics including service levels, forecast accuracy, capacity utilization, inventory performance, and plan adherence.
• Deliver actionable insights around demand variability, operational performance, and supply chain risks.
• Support ongoing development of planning systems, reporting tools, and analytics capabilities.
• Standardize planning processes across operating companies.
• Identify opportunities to improve forecasting accuracy, planning discipline, and overall S&OP maturity.
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