Sr. Planning Analyst - Supply Chain Excellence

The Role:

As the Sr. Planning Analyst - Supply Chain Excellence, reporting to the Director of Global Supply Chain Excellence, you will be responsible for advancing enterprise planning excellence by serving as a subject matter expert and process owner for supply, inventory, capacity, S&OP/IBP, and available-to-promise processes. You will establish and strengthen global planning standards and governance, leads cross-functional continuous improvement and transformation initiatives, and partners with business and technology stakeholders to deliver system enhancements, automation, analytics, and digital planning capabilities.

Through data-driven analysis, performance management, structured problem solving, and capability building, you will improve decision quality and delivers measurable gains in customer service, inventory, working capital, cost, productivity, and organizational responsiveness.

• Serve as the enterprise process owner and subject matter expert for Supply Planning, Inventory Planning, S&OP / IBP, Capacity Planning, and Available-to-Promise processes.
• Define, maintain, and continuously improve global planning standards, decision rights, process maps, operating procedures, and work instructions.
• Drive adoption of standardized planning practices across regions, business units, manufacturing sites, and planning teams.
• Identify process gaps, control weaknesses, and performance barriers, then recommend practical solutions that improve consistency, scalability, and effectiveness.
• Establish process governance routines, compliance measures, and escalation paths to sustain planning discipline.

• Lead strategic planning improvement initiatives with measurable impact on service performance, inventory investment, working capital, operating cost, planning productivity, and business responsiveness.
• Develop business cases, implementation roadmaps, value estimates, and benefits tracking for improvement opportunities.
• Lead cross-functional process redesign workshops and value stream assessments involving Supply Chain, Commercial, Manufacturing, Procurement, Logistics, Finance, Customer Service, and IT.
• Apply Lean, Six Sigma, operational excellence, and change management methods to simplify processes and remove waste.
• Track business value delivered through completed initiatives and communicate progress to functional leaders.

• Act as the senior business representative for planning-related systems, enhancements, implementations, and digital planning capabilities.
• Translate business needs into documented requirements, user stories, process designs, test scenarios, training materials, and adoption plans.
• Partner with IT and external partners to improve planning tools, reporting platforms, automation, exception management, and analytics capabilities.
• Evaluate opportunities to use advanced analytics, AI, machine learning, optimization, and planning automation to improve decision speed and quality.
• Support user acceptance testing, deployment readiness, change impact analysis, and post-implementation stabilization.

• Develop and maintain planning dashboards, scorecards, KPI definitions, and performance routines that improve visibility and accountability.
• Monitor and interpret KPIs including forecast accuracy, forecast bias, inventory turns, inventory health, OTIF / OTCC, ATP performance, service levels, schedule adherence, and planning productivity.
• Analyze trends, root causes, and trade-offs, then recommend corrective actions and improvement priorities.
• Provide executive-ready insights, business cases, and…