Head of Supply Planning
Hybrid · Bridgewater, New Jersey, United States
Job Summary
Head of Supply Planning leads the planning processes translating demand forecasts into executable production, inventory, and supply plans for approximately 50 SKUs across two fast-growing brands distributed through mass, drug, food, club, and e-commerce channels. Owns master production schedules, CDMO coordination, safety stock targets, constrained supply responses, and supply-risk visibility to support product availability and growth. Partners with Commercial, Operations, Quality, Finance, and CDMOs to maintain service levels (>97.5% UFR) while improving planning discipline, inventory health, and supply responsiveness. Responsibilities include developing and maintaining master production schedules and rolling 12-month production plans, coordinating CDMO production sequencing, managing planning cadences, providing supply visibility, setting safety stock targets, identifying opportunities to reduce excess inventory, maintaining planning master data, supporting new product launches, tracking KPIs (plan adherence, product availability, inventory coverage, shortage risk, supplier responsiveness, service-level impact), and driving process improvements. Qualifications require 10+ years in planning/SC/operations, experience with CDMOs and external manufacturers, ERP (NetSuite preferred), advanced Excel, and APICS CPIM/CSCP or Lean/Six Sigma preferred.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of progressive supply planning, supply chain, production planning, or operations experience in CPG, consumer healthcare, beauty, or other fast-moving consumer products environments.
- Experience building or scaling supply planning processes in a high-growth CPG, beauty, consumer healthcare, or fast-moving consumer products environment.
- Strong experience with supply planning, master production scheduling, inventory management, safety stock strategy, constrained supply planning, and IBR/S&OP participation.
- Experience working directly with CDMOs, external manufacturers, suppliers, and third-party logistics providers.
- Strong ERP and planning systems experience; NetSuite experience preferred.
- Advanced Excel, reporting, analytical modeling, and data-interpretation skills.
- Strong problem-solving and prioritization skills with the ability to make practical recommendations in fast-moving, ambiguous, or constrained-supply situations.
- Proven ability to influence Commercial, Operations, Quality, Finance, supplier, warehousing, and logistics partners through clear supply plans, risks, and tradeoffs.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, especially in communicating operational risks, supply scenarios, mitigation plans, and decision requirements.
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