A Global leader in food production is looking for a Senior Director Demand Planning to lead all demand planning processes across the enterprise business environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Developing and executing fully integrated long-term strategic plans that meet organizational objectives
- Maintaining continuous in-depth knowledge of market conditions, industry trends, and developing technologies
- Lead the blueprint for demand sensing and demand planning processes leveraging the segmentation strategy, creating an intelligent demand stream that auto-adjusts, through AI/ML leveraging several external and internal data points, for rapid and responsive planning
- Collaborate with manufacturing, logistics and finance on the set up of the enterprise system's work centers to create the right analytical capabilities/financial framework to manage and plan the financial cost allocation across production units and work centers to deliver total delivered cost for optimization and scenario planning
Education and Skills Required:
- Bachelor's Degree (required). Preferred fields include Supply Chain Operations, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering or Business Management or related discipline
- 10- 15 years of planning/ business process/ industrial experience
- Ability to provide strategic technical leadership and lead by influence in the creation of supply chain planning environment and broader enterprise system environment
- Functional knowledge of manufacturing and distribution operations - including but not limited to the following functions: planning/forecasting, supply management, procurement, sales and operations planning, new product introduction, transition management, production scheduling, quality control, inventory management, supply chain, warehouse and distribution
Additional Qualifications:
- Team Leader experience 7+ years and Project management / agile method experience
- Strong communication and leadership skills dealing with a global cross-functional team
- Experience leading complex, global, project teams within business
- Strong track record of driving operational improvements to support the business strategy