Perfetti Van Melle is hiring a Supply Planning Manager to lead and improve Supply Planning for the USA & Canada businesses. In this collaborative leadership role, you will ensure supply plans effectively support customer service and cost objectives while mentoring a team and driving continuous improvement.
What You'll Do
- Provide leadership and mentoring for a team of Supply Planners to prioritize career development and functional competency improvements.
- Execute plans to achieve and exceed customer service, manage working capital, and meet key planning performance indicators.
- Drive continuous excellence behaviors within the team, embedding root cause analysis and a continuous improvement mindset.
- Develop and guide implementation of all global recommended standards and be a change agent across supply planning.
- Build and lead cross-functional teams to achieve core business objectives, navigate complex problems, and capitalize on opportunities in the supply plan.
- Communicate information across the business such as projected out of stock, planning projections, capacity outlook, and inventory levels.
- Act as the first point of contact for communication of supply planning and issue resolution with the commercial team, factories, logistics, and other markets.
- Lead and improve the Supply Review component of the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) processes to ensure alignment for robust operational and innovation execution plans.
- Influence cross-functional teams at all levels, including executive teams, regarding the rolling 24-month supply plans.
What We're Looking For
- BA/BS in Business Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in Supply Chain areas, including leading teams.
- Working knowledge of S&OP processes and interactions including portfolio management, demand management, supply planning, and financial reconciliation.
- Experience with Operational Planning for capacity and inventory planning, optimizing across make/source scenarios across domestic and international factories.
- Experience in Continuous Improvement processes and cultures.
- Proven effectiveness managing by influence across diverse levels of an organization and across functions.
- Strong business and financial acumen, financial/business literacy, and analytical skills.
- Development and analysis of scorecards to leverage data and KPIs to drive business improvements.
- Robust written and verbal communication skills across all levels of the organization; ability to present complex data simply for effective decision making.
- Ability to quickly establish credibility, navigate a matrix organization, and engage others to implement effective solutions.
- Capacity to build relationships internally and externally.
- Confidence and success in problem resolution, resourcefulness, and the ability to adjust to changes.
- Project/Program management skills; ability to lead cross-functional project teams internally and manage external supplier teams.
Team & Environment
This is a collaborative Supply Chain leadership role.
Benefits & Compensation
- PTO package including vacation, wellness, personal, and pay it forward time off.
- 13 paid holidays.
- 401k with Company Match up to 8%.
- Annual Bonus potential and merit-based increases.
- Comprehensive Health Insurance.
- Annual well-being subsidy.
- 20 weeks Maternity & 12 weeks Paternity leave options.
- Sam's Club or Costco annual membership reimbursement.
- Tuition-Free College Program or Free Continued Education (BA, Masters, etc.).
- Modest monthly candy allotment (Airheads, Airheads Xtremes, and Mentos).
Perfetti Van Melle, USA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other applicable statutorily protected group status under local, state, or federal law.
