Senior Manager, Global Material Planning

**Job Overview**:
The Senior Manager of Global Material Planning is responsible for leading and governing the global material planning function to ensure the right materials are available, at the right time and in the right quantity to support uninterrupted production and optimal inventory levels. This role sets global process, polices and standards, and works closely with the supply planning team, production planning team and sourcing team to detect and manage risk, optimize the cost and minimize liability and wastage, and ensure material availability.

**Key Responsibilities**:
**1.**Global Material Planning Strategy and Execution**
- Understand demand forecasts, business requirement and co-lead the creation of raw material sourcing strategy through the Multi-horizon plans which are drawn up to achieve long-term Brand revenue targets and growth expectations
- Lead planning activities from long-term strategic planning (multi-horizon plan) to (pre-/in-) seasonal planning process and material preposition strategies. Contribute with the development of the raw material sourcing strategy, supplier capacity plan and drive the seasonal supply planning process in order to maximize product availability
- Lead the design and execution of material preposition initiatives to enable On-Time Performance

**2.**Supplier collaboration and Risk Management**
- Develop, evolve, and implement supplier management tools to ensure achievement of Global Material strategy, goals, and objectives
- Collaborate with global supply planning and material sourcing team to ensure material availability and assess and mitigate any potential risk to minimize delay associated to nominated suppliers, due to demand shifts, capacity problems, and forecast variances etc.
- Partner with suppliers to align capacity and supply plans to production schedules, develop scenario-based plans to respond to disruptions.
- Drive global inventory strategies to balance service levels, investment and cost.
- Lead initiatives to reduce excess and obsolete inventory globally

**3.**Process Optimization and Innovation**
- Full assessment of current organization focuses on people, process and data.
- Standardize, harmonize and optimize the global material planning processes and systems for consistency, scalability and efficiency.
- Eliminate non-value-added activities and streamline end to end workflows (from forecast handoff to purchase order)
- Be a driver for initiatives that enable higher agility within the product supply organization and continuously advance the processes, analytical framework to support the growth and market needs.
- Act as process owner for all GMP policies and procedures impacting Global Product Supply, drive policy changes with key stakeholders, including Product Supply, Global Planning and RO’s to ensure proper implementation the evaluation, selection and implementation of planning tools and technologies
- Introduce automation and digital planning capabilities

**4.**People and Organization Leadership and Capability**
- Define a clear roles and responsibilities of global material planning team.
- Recruit, develop and mentor the team to meet or exceed business performance expectation. Foster an environment and passion where trust, creativity, innovation and openness can thrive.
- Identify and cultivates high potential associates within the planning organization ensuring a pipeline of future leaders.
- Demonstrate strong cross-functional leadership and capable to facilitate collaboration between different functions, regional team to ensure alignment with overall business objectives.
- Lead and manage organizational changes within the function; communicate change initiatives and effectively, ensure buy-in from team and other stakeholders.
- Design and evolve the organizational structure that support efficient and effective global planning operations. Allocate resources appropriately across regional offices to meet the business needs.
- Implement training and development programs to build the team’s expertise in supply chain and planning.

**5.**Data-Driven Decision Making**
- Embed a data-first mindset across the global planning team.
- Full assessment of master data management - ensure data quality, consistency and accuracy in key planning fields (lead time, safety stocks, BOMs, supplier parameters etc.). Partner with DT, internal stakeholder and supplier to governance teams to continuously improve planning inputs.
- Utilize advanced analytics and supply chain tools to assess performance, identify trends, and drive continuous improvements to monitor material availability, shortages and planning accuracy.
- Track key performance indicators (KPIs) for supply chain efficiency e.g. supplier reliability, lead time variability and demand/supply alignment, develop action plans to address variances and root causes for process improvement.

**6.**Cross-Functional Collaboration**
- Build Strategic Partnership and collaborate with Product Supply, Supp