Director, Supply Chain

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The Director of Supply Chain, Personal Care leads the integrated supply planning and purchasing functions for the Personal Care Business Unit. This role is accountable for developing and executing supply, inventory, capacity, and material strategies that support customer service, working capital, cost, and growth objectives across all Personal Care manufacturing locations. As a key member of the Personal Care Supply Chain team, the Director leads the SIOP supply planning process, the network of site production schedulers, and the buying organization to ensure reliable supply, disciplined execution, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute an integrated supply chain strategy that supports the Personal Care Business Unit’s five-year growth plan and annual operating objectives.
• Lead the monthly SIOP supply review, aligning supply, inventory, capacity, purchasing, and material plans with the demand plan; develop and communicate alternatives when plans are misaligned.
• Translate demand and inventory requirements into achievable capacity, production, material, and purchasing plans across all Personal Care manufacturing locations.
• Partner with Operations to measure capacity utilization and deploy capacity in support of customer service, operational continuity, and lowest landed cost.
• Lead and develop the network of site production schedulers and the centralized transactional buying team, ensuring consistent standard work, clear accountability, and strong performance against defined KPIs. Standardize and streamline scheduling process and toolset.
• Oversee material planning and buying execution to identify component and raw material requirements, address shortages, and communicate risks to production schedules and the annual operating plan.
• Ensure supply planning, scheduling, and purchasing processes support targets for OTIF, schedule attainment, inventory days on hand, working capital, and capacity utilization.
• Support Procurement partner to identify and qualify new or alternate sources of supply to improve supply continuity, reduce cost, and address supplier performance issues.
• Build supply chain resilience through supplier diversification, risk mitigation, and strong relationships with key Personal Care suppliers.
• Ensure relevant SAP master data, planning parameters, safety stocks, and inventory settings are accurate and optimized to support service and inventory objectives.
• Support new products, design changes, material onboarding, product conversions, end-of-life runouts, and disposition of slow-moving and obsolete materials.
• Collaborate with Corporate Supply Chain, Demand Planning, Operations, Quality, R&D, Finance, and other stakeholders to improve SIOP and end-to-end supply chain performance.
• Drive improvement in supply chain KPIs through solid root cause analysis and implementation of corrective actions to achieve continuous improvement in planning, purchasing, supplier, and inventory performance.
• Provide effective leadership, coaching, and talent development for geographically dispersed planning and purchasing teams.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, business, engineering, or a related field required; APICS certification or advanced degree is a plus.
• 10+ years of progressive supply chain experience supporting multi-site manufacturing operations, including significant leadership experience across supply planning, materials management, purchasing, or procurement.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the Personal Care supply chain, including chemical and raw material sourcing and relationships with key suppliers.
• Proven success developing supply and inventory plans that improve working capital while achieving strong customer service performance.
• Experience leading networked planning and buying teams responsible for significant direct material spend.
• Strong working knowledge of SIOP/S&OP or Integrated Business Planning processes, capacity planning, production scheduling, supplier management, and inventory optimization.
• Proficiency in SAP is required, including experience with planning and purchasing master data; strong Excel and analytical skills are also required.
• Experience building supply continuity through multiple qualified sources, supplier risk management, and performance improvement.
• Successful track record of delivering supply chain KPIs and business objectives across service, inventory, cost, schedule attainment, and supplier performance.
• Strong leadership, communication, negotiation, decision-making, and cross-functional collaboration skills, including the ability to lead remote teams.

Compensation:

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $170,000 /year in our lowest geographic market up to $190,000 /year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Dependent on the position offered, other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.

PLZ Corp offers a robust suite of benefits including:

• Medical, Dental & Vision benefits.
• Company paid Life and Short-Term disability.
• Voluntary benefits including additional life, disability, and hospital/accident insurance.
• 401k & company provided match.
• Paid Time Off
• Bonus incentive programs (Note, bonuses are subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.)

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or other protected status. EEOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.