Supply Planning Director

The Director of supply Chain (ISC) is a key member of the site ISC leadership team and serves as the senior operational partner to the ISC leader.  This role owns the end-to-end planning, control and physical movement of material across the operation from supply planning and inbound receiving through inventory control, material presentation / kitting and final shipments to the customer. 

The Director will create the operational disciple and cross-functional connectivity required to translate customer demand into executable production and shipment plans.  This leader is accountable fore ensuring material availability, schedule health, inventory accuracy, clear-to-build readiness and disciplined execution against customer commitments. 

The successful candidate will be a highly visible, hands-on leader who combines strong supply chian analytics with operational execution and a relentless focus on the customer. 

Responsibilities

Supply Planning & Customer Execution

• Own the site supply planning process, translating customer demand and business priorities into executable production, material, and shipment plans.
• Establish and manage the rolling production and shipment outlook, with partial focus on the current month and rolling 4–12-week horizon.
• Own schedule health and ensuring production plans are achievable, appropriately challenging and aligned with material and capacity constraints. 
• Drives clear to build visibility across the operation, identifying material constraints before they impact production or customer commitments. 
• Leads recovery planning for past due orders and delivery performance, establishing clear actions, wonder, and escalation paths to achieve customer commitments.
• Provides the Voice of the customer within ISC, ensuring customer priorities and delivery risks are clearly translated into operational actions.
• Partner with Operations, Procurement, Engineering, Quality and Program Management to resolve constraints and maximize customer output. 

Material Flow and Execution.

•  Own the end-to-end physical movement of material from receipt though shipment.
• Provide leadership for Receiving, Inventory Control, Material Handling / Kitting and shipping
• Establish standard work and material -flow strategies that ensure material is available at the point of use when required
• Improves dock to stock, receiving, staging kitting material presentation, and shipment execution
• Eliminate material shortages and transactional gaps that disrupt production flow.
• Develop visual management and daily operating mechanisms to identify and resolve material-flow constraints quickly.