Manager, Category Supply Planning; Nutrition and Health Science

Job Title

Category Supply Planning Manager for Nutrition and Health Science

Business area:
Supply Planning

Location:

North York, ON located at 25 Sheppard Ave W, North York, ON M2N 6S8;
Hybrid

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The role of Category Supply Planning Manager for the Nutrition and Health Science Team will provide leadership in applying best practices and efficient processes to ensure the availability of finished goods at the right stock locations with high freshness, ensuring the required level of customer service while optimizing total Delivered Cost (TDC) and ensuring a customer‑centric mindset. This role will efficiently execute defined Monthly Business Planning Processes including S&OP and S&OE processes within business category and operational teams for all end‑to‑end Supply Planning activities.

The Category Supply Planning Manager for the Nutrition and Health Science Team is responsible for effectively leading a team of category supply, inventory, material requirements (MRP) and material Production scheduling (MPS) planners for a specific market/category. They apply best practices and efficient processes to ensure the availability of finished goods at the right stock locations with high freshness, ensuring the required level of customer service while optimizing TDC and maintaining a customer and consumer‑centric mindset.

They also actively contribute to the strategic (3 years +) and tactical (18 months) business planning via Monthly Business Planning. This role acts as the lead integrator, as a member of the Integrated Planning Leadership (IP LT) interacting with Demand Planning Teams and other operational stakeholders including warehousing, transportation and customer‑facing teams. Additionally, it participates in the business category Operational Leadership team (BU OLT) and represents the Category Demand & Supply Planning teams in both strategic long‑term and mid‑short term planning and execution.

This requires regular interaction and leadership within the Business Unit LT, Planning & Operations leaders, Business Unit Ops leads and BEO.

• Manage and maintain a skilled, motivated team of supply, MPR, MPS and deployment planners to develop optimized supply & inventory plans across the networks to ensure reliable sustainability in adherence to agreed KPIs.
• Ensure consistent improvement of the quality of the supply plans and the efficiency with which they are produced based on category‑specific demand patterns, portfolio/product considerations and commercialization plans.
• Drive orchestration and improvement through category supply planning strategies and processes to achieve target fill rates and control excess inventory.
• Conduct root‑cause analysis in tandem with key partners to continually improve operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with Demand Planning Manager, planners, BU Operations Leads and relevant stakeholders on issue escalations where central resources are required to drive improvements and ensure optimal resolutions that are applicable across the enterprise.
• Support key operational strategies on long‑term sourcing across global networks and capacity planning for local factories, where applicable.

• Manage the relationship and effective flow of information between the Integrated Planning function, internal business partners (e.g., Order to Cash, Logistics,…