Supply Chain Manager

Job Description

The Supply Chain Planner III is a dynamic and self-motivated leader with a proven record of generating and building relationships, managing projects from concept to completion, and demonstrating exceptional communication skills.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create production schedules that maintain targeted inventory levels while balancing staffing, machine capacity, and production efficiencies.
• Evaluate SKU demand allocations, analyze and plan site production schedules based on current and evolving business needs, site capacities, and special equipment or timing needs.
• Organize and run S&OP meetings focused on customer support and plant profitability.
• Analyze, maintain, and modify key item-level system replenishment settings such as minimum ship quantities, shipment increments, minimum production quantities, and maintain inventory levels.
• Work with additional plant leadership to schedule production around the plant's budget structure.
• Engage with the sales team to understand priorities based on demand signals, sales trends, and policy.
• Communicate with manufacturing leaders and make adjustments to the production schedule when necessary.
• Inform critical team members of any extenuating circumstances that could cause service failures.
• Develop others within the planning organization through the sharing of best demonstrated processes and knowledge transference.
• Provide cross-functional leadership across departments to solve for demand-related issues caused by forecast error, demand constraints, unplanned promotional opportunities, etc.
• Provide Sales and Operations teams with timely analysis, guidance, and decision-making to ensure that the supply chain is in the best position to execute the demand plan generated from the total operational forecast.
• Generate and publish to key stakeholders, monthly and weekly demand forecasts, including clear identification of assumptions highlighting significant changes since release of previous report.