SR Manager NA Supply Planning Excellence

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DIR DEMANDA MERCADO

North America, United States, New Jersey, Summit

Hybrid

As a member of the North America Global Plan Excellence (GPEx) team, the Senior Manager, NA Supply Planning Excellence leads regional supply planning process excellence, governance and transformation across the North America Planning organization.

The role owns and continuously improves core supply planning processes, including

Supply Network Planning (SNP) and Production Planning (PP), inventory and supply planning performance management, while partnering closely with Global Process Owners, Technology,Dataand regional Supply Chain teams to ensure standard process adoption and measurable business value.

The Senior Manager translates business needs into scalable planning capabilities, supports design and deployment of advanced planning solutions, and drives readiness, adoption,hypercareand stabilization for new system and process implementations across the Supply Planning organization. The role is accountable for strengthening end-to-end planning maturity, improving service,cashand cost outcomes, and enabling consistent ways of working across United States and Canada through strong governance, change leadership and cross-functional collaboration.

• Lead regional Supply Planning process roadmap development, aligned with global planning strategy, regionalprioritiesand business stakeholder needs.
• Own governance for SNP-PP, inventory management and supply planning processes, ensuring robust infrastructure for process compliance, performance metrics, decisionqualityand cash governance.
• Drive future-state process design,harmonizationand documentation, ensuring regional ways of working are compliant with global standards and simple to execute.
• Translate business requirements into scalable planning capabilities, partnering with IT, Global Process Owners,Dataand implementation partners on SAP, S/4
  
  HANA and Kinaxis solution design.
• Lead deployment readiness for new planning systems and processes, including business testing, UAT, cutover readiness,hypercare, stabilization and issue resolution.
• Develop and execute change management, communications,training and adoption strategies to embed new capabilities across the Supply Planning organization.
• Partner with Supply Chain, Technology, Commercial, Finance, Manufacturing, Distribution, Procurement and Quality stakeholders toidentifyimprovement opportunities and resolve cross-functional planning barriers.
• Monitor KPIs, benefits realization and planning maturity, using data-driven insights toidentifyrisks, prioritize correctiveactionsand sustain continuous improvement.
• Lead capability-building routines for planners and process specialists, including training, coaching, skill-gapassessmentand reinforcement of standard ways of working.
• Represent the region in global process forums and planning transformation governance, ensuring regional requirements are understood and global design decisions can be implemented effectively.
• Manage and develop Business Process Specialists supporting SNP-PP, Inventory Management and related supply planning processes.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree…