Supply Planning Manager

Key Responsibilities Supply & Production Planning Lead the development and maintenance of supply plans based on approved consensus demand plan, inventory targets, and business priorities.

Develop and manage supply plans considering production capacity, material availability, lead times, inventory levels, and customer requirements.

Monitor production and supply performance against agreed plans.

Identify supply gaps against the approved demand plan and develop mitigation and recovery actions and develop appropriate mitigation and recovery actions and recommend alternative scenarios or solutions and ensure timely escalation of issues.

Lead the Supply Review step of the monthly S&OP cycle and manage the monthly supply planning cycle.

Coordinate with manufacturing and operations teams to ensure production plans are achievable.

Ensure capacity and material readiness for new launches, discontinuations and promotions based on volumes agreed in the demand plan, and major business initiatives from a supply planning perspective.

Ensure planning data, master data, parameters, and planning systems are accurate and up to date.

Develop dashboards covering supply performance, inventory, service levels and supply risks.

Improve planning processes, tools, and methodologies to increase supply reliability.

Material Planning Coordinate with Procurement to ensure timely availability of raw materials, packaging, components, and other required materials.

Review material requirements and purchasing plans based on the approved supply plan (MPS/MRP) and inventory policies.

Monitor supplier lead times, shortages, and potential supply disruptions.

Support material and capacity prioritization during constrained supply, and proposing customer allocation scenarios for S&OP decision.

Ensure purchasing activities are aligned with approved supply plans and inventory policies.

Inventory Management Establish and monitor appropriate inventory targets, including safety stock, minimum/maximum levels, and replenishment parameters in alignment with business requirements

Monitor inventory levels, aging, excess, slow-moving, and obsolete stock.

Identify opportunities to reduce inventory, nonperforming inventory and excess inventory while maintaining required customer service levels.

Leadership Responsibilities Lead, coach, and develop capabilities of the Supply Planning team.

Establish clear objectives, responsibilities, and performance expectations.

Build a proactive planning culture focused on service, inventory optimization, and business agility.

Monitor supply planning KPIs (plan adherence, OTIF/service level, DOH/inventory cover, capacity utilization).

Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, Logistics, or a related field.

7+ years of relevant experience in supply chain, supply planning, production planning, and inventory management, including experience in a managerial/supervisory role.

Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes.

Strong knowledge of inventory management, MRP, replenishment, production planning, and S&OP/IBP.

Experience working with ERP/MRP systems such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, or equivalent.

Advanced Excel, data-analysis skills and Power BI is a plus