Sr. Manager, Global Supply Planning

Sr. Manager, Global Supply Planning acts as Vantive’s enterprise expert and business owner for global supply planning policies, processes, standards, and tools. This role drives end-to-end supply planning excellence across network planning, site supply planning, and procurement planning, ensuring robust supply plans, strong service levels, and optimized inventory performance. As a hands-on supply planning SME, the role establishes global best practices, leads process governance, and strengthens planner capability across regions and business units. It promotes consistent and disciplined planning execution, drives improvements in plan quality, and builds a cohesive global supply planning community. Operating in a fast-moving transformation environment, this role elevates SIOP effectiveness by driving supply planning maturity, supporting global cadence and analytics, and enabling effective supply-demand balancing. It also partners with IT, master data, and digital teams to evolve planning systems, deploy enhancements, and introduce AI-enabled automation to improve planning efficiency, visibility, and decision support. Key activities include defining and maintaining global policies, governance, performance metrics, training materials, and cross-functional collaboration; driving inventory management, master production scheduling, capacity planning, risk management, and scenario analysis; supporting SIOP reviews; and leading automation and analytics initiatives. The role requires strong analytical capability, experience with planning platforms (e.g., Kinaxis RapidResponse/Maestro), ERP systems (e.g., JDE), and tools (Tableau/Power BI). Benefits and compensation are outlined, with an estimated base salary range of $136k-$180k and comprehensive US benefits; location listed as Deerfield, IL, US.