Vice President, Supply Chain Planning

Department: Supply Chain

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Oak Brook, IL

Reporting To: Ramon Gonzalez

Compensation: $200,000 - $250,000 / year

Description

How You Will Help

• Develop and execute a multi-year supply chain planning transformation roadmap aligned with the company’s growth and value-creation strategy.
• Assess the current planning organization, processes, systems, data, and capabilities, and establish a clear future-state operating model.
• Build a standardized, scalable planning function across Reliable Safety and Flow Corporation, while allowing appropriate flexibility for unique business and manufacturing requirements.
• Establish common planning processes, definitions, KPIs, governance, and accountability across sites and business units.
• Identify opportunities to improve service, reduce cost, increase manufacturing productivity, improve inventory performance, and unlock working capital.
• Partner with executive leadership to translate strategic growth objectives, acquisitions, and commercial initiatives into actionable supply chain requirements.
• Develop and maintain a prioritized portfolio of supply chain transformation initiatives with clear financial and operational outcomes.

• Establish and lead a disciplined enterprise S&OP/Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process that connects Commercial, Operations, Manufacturing, Procurement, Finance, and Supply Chain.
• Transform S&OP into an executive business-management process that drives decisions on demand, capacity, inventory, production, and financial performance.
• Create clear visibility into demand changes, capacity constraints, supply risks, inventory exposure, and required actions.
• Establish a consistent monthly planning cadence, decision-making framework, and escalation process across the organization.
• Provide executive leadership with fact-based recommendations and clear tradeoffs, rather than simply reporting supply chain issues.
• Continuously improve the maturity, effectiveness, and adoption of the S&OP process.

• Build a robust enterprise demand planning capability that improves forecast accuracy and provides a reliable view of future customer and market requirements.
• Lead the development and continuous improvement of the company’s demand planning and forecasting processes.
• Partner with Sales, Commercial, Marketing, and Finance to develop accurate, actionable demand forecasts that incorporate market intelligence, customer requirements, growth initiatives, and commercial opportunities.
• Establish forecasting methodologies, performance measures, and accountability for forecast accuracy.
• Develop processes to identify and respond to changes in customer demand, market conditions, seasonality, and business trends.
• Translate commercial and strategic growth plans into actionable demand requirements.

• Lead the development of supply plans that balance customer requirements, manufacturing capacity, sourcing constraints, inventory objectives, and financial targets.
• Lead material planning to ensure the right raw materials and components are available to support production plans, in partnership with Procurement and suppliers.
• Establish MRP parameters, lead times, lot sizes, and material policies that support reliable execution while minimizing excess material and shortages.
• Establish standardized planning parameters, policies, and performance expectations across the manufacturing network.
• Develop proactive processes to identify supply, material, and capacity constraints before they affect customers or financial performance.
• Improve planning responsiveness while reducing unnecessary schedule changes, expedite activity, and operational disruption.

• Partner closely with plant and Operations leadership to develop a comprehensive understanding of manufacturing capacity, constraints, bottlenecks, labor requirements, and capital needs.
• Establish an integrated capacity planning process that supports both near-term execution and long-term network strategy.
• Identify opportunities to optimize production across the manufacturing footprint, including make/buy, outsourcing, product allocation, and capacity utilization decisions.
• Support decisions regarding capital investment, equipment requirements, plant capabilities, and manufacturing footprint optimization.
• Develop scenarios and recommendations to support growth, new product introductions, acquisitions, and changes in customer demand.

• Establish an enterprise inventory strategy designed to improve customer service while materially reducing excess inventory and working capital.
• Develop inventory segmentation, safety-stock policies, service-level targets, and planning parameters appropriate to different product categories and customer requirements.
• Establish visibility into excess, obsolete, slow-moving, and at-risk inventory, and lead cross-functional efforts to address root causes.
• Partner closely with Finance to establish working capital targets and translate inventory initiatives into measurable cash-flow improvements.
• Drive sustainable improvements in inventory turns and cash conversion rather than relying on short-term inventory reductions.

• Play a key leadership role in integrating supply chain planning processes, systems, data, and organizational capabilities, including following acquisitions.
• Develop repeatable planning integration playbooks that can be leveraged as the company continues to grow.
• Identify opportunities to leverage combined demand, manufacturing capacity, sourcing capabilities, and inventory across the broader organization.
• Establish consistent planning standards while effectively managing legacy processes and organizational differences.
• Partner with Finance, Operations, Commercial, IT, and integration teams to ensure supply chain initiatives support broader integration and value-creation objectives.

• Lead the evolution of the company’s supply chain planning technology and data capabilities.
• Assess and optimize ERP, MRP, APS, forecasting, inventory, and planning tools to support a more integrated planning environment.
• Establish a reliable data foundation and common definitions across the organization.
• Develop dashboards and analytics that provide executives and operational leaders with actionable visibility into supply chain performance.
• Evaluate opportunities to leverage automation, advanced analytics, AI, and predictive planning capabilities where they can deliver meaningful business value.
• Ensure technology investments are tied to measurable improvements in business performance, not technology for technology’s sake.

• Translate supply chain initiatives into measurable financial and operational value.
• Establish a supply chain performance management framework with clear KPIs, targets, ownership, and accountability.
• Develop metrics for forecast accuracy, service levels, inventory turns, working capital, capacity utilization, schedule adherence, material availability, supplier performance, and planning effectiveness.
• Partner with Finance to quantify the financial impact of supply chain transformation initiatives.
• Provide regular reporting to executive leadership on progress against transformation objectives and value-creation commitments.
• Identify and prioritize initiatives based on impact, feasibility, and speed to value.

• Design and build the organizational structure, capabilities, and talent required to support a world-class supply chain planning function.
• Recruit, develop, and retain high-performing supply chain planning talent.
• Establish clear roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and accountability across planning teams and business functions.
• Build a culture of ownership, urgency, continuous improvement, and data-driven decision-making.
• Develop supply chain leaders and planners who can operate effectively in a more standardized, enterprise-wide environment.
• Lead organizational change effectively across legacy organizations and sites.

What You Will Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Operations, Engineering, Business, Finance, or a related discipline required; advanced degree strongly preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive supply chain experience.
• Proven experience leading a large supply chain planning organization of at least 20 planning professionals, including managers, demand planners, supply/material planners, and analysts.
• Proven experience leading supply chain transformation within a complex, multi-site manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated experience building or significantly transforming S&OP/IBP processes.
• Strong experience across demand planning and forecasting, supply planning, production planning, material planning, inventory optimization, and capacity planning.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing operations, MRP/ERP environments, and supply chain planning technology.
• Demonstrated ability to connect supply chain initiatives to EBITDA, working capital, cash flow, customer service, and other business outcomes.
• Experience managing and developing high-performing teams across multiple locations.
• Strong financial, analytical, and strategic capabilities.

Compensation