Supply Planning Leader

For more than 80 years, our client’s engineers and product specialists have partnered with customers to produce highly engineered connectivity and sensing solutions that make a connected world possible. Their focus on reliability, durability, and sustainability exemplifies their commitment to progress. The unmatched range of their product portfolio enables companies, large and small, to turn ideas into technology that can transform how the world works and lives tomorrow.

Role Description:

• Supply Planning Leader is accountable for end-to-end supply planning across an assigned product portfolio and multiple distribution centers.
• The role ensures timely, cost-effective product availability while balancing customer service, inventory health, working capital, capacity, and logistics performance. This leader converts demand into feasible supply plans, manages risks and constraints, and drives cross-functional execution and continuous improvement in a global, matrix environment.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute supply plans aligned with customer demand, inventory targets, business priorities, capacity, material availability, supplier constraints, and transportation lead times.
• Ensure finished-goods availability and timely replenishment across distribution centers, regional warehouses, and source plants by driving MRP recommendations and monitoring plan adherence.
• Lead weekly and monthly supply reviews and actively support S&OP and S&OE by providing supply status, reviewing demand outlook, recommending trade-offs, and driving approved actions.
• Optimize safety stock, MRP policies, inventory deployment, stock coverage, turns, availability, and working capital while maintaining healthy inventory levels.
• Manage phase-in and phase-out planning for the assigned portfolio.
• Identify demand-supply gaps, capacity bottlenecks, material constraints, revenue risks, and service opportunities; lead root-cause analysis, recovery plans, prioritization, and allocation decisions.
• Support customer-service targets, including Fill Rate, STR, OTIF, and PP Confirmation, by aligning commitments with realistic supply capabilities.
• Partner with Demand Planning, Procurement, Manufacturing, Logistics, Customer Service, Product Management, and Sales on material availability, inventory strategy, supply risks, and executive reviews.
• Prepare monthly and annual inventory and freight projections and improve sourcing and transportation economics, including ocean buying from source.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Operations, Business, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in supply planning, materials planning, inventory management, manufacturing, distribution, OEM, automotive, industrial, or aftermarket environments.
• At least 4 years of team-leadership experience, with demonstrated stakeholder management, influencing, communication, and problem-solving capability.
• Experience working effectively in fast-paced, global, matrix, and ambiguous environments.
• Strong knowledge of supply and demand planning, forecasting, inventory optimization, capacity and constraint management, distribution networks, transportation, warehousing, and S&OP/S&OE.
• Proficiency in SAP MRP and inventory planning, SAP IBP, and advanced Microsoft Excel; strong Microsoft PowerPoint and analytics capability.