Global Supply Planning Excellence & CI Lead The Opportunity A vacancy has arisen for a Supply Planning Excellence & CI Lead. This is a permanent position and will report to the Planning Global Hub & CoE Lead. The Supply Planning Excellence & CI Lead identifies, leads, and executes continuous improvement activities for Supply Planning (Supply and Material Planning, Co-packing, MRP and Scheduling) across the markets in scope. Manages and tracks all the ongoing initiatives in the region and ensures that all progress timely and support the capability overall strategy. What You’ll Do <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left:0.0px">Identify, prioritize, and lead continuous improvement initiatives across global and regional supply planning activities, aligned to the Global Planning Excellence strategy</li> <li style="margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left:0.0px">Lead, support, or execute CI initiatives across Supply & Material Planning, MRP, Scheduling, and Co‑packing, partnering with regional and site teams</li> <li style="margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left:0.0px">Manage and track the full portfolio of regional and global improvement initiatives, ensuring projects are delivered successfully and on time</li> <li style="margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left:0.0px">Facilitate performance review sessions with Supply Planners to address challenges, share insights, and drive best‑practice adoption</li> <li style="margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left:0.0px">Coordinate lifecycle management processes across regions to balance product availability with obsolescence risk and cost mitigation</li> <li style="margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left:0.0px">Create transparency around complexity and improvement opportunities within regional co‑packing operations</li> <li style="margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left:0.0px">Act as the global design authority for supply planning tools, user roles, access rights, and system governance</li> <li style="margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left:0.0px">Oversee system upgrades, enhancements, and change requests across markets to ensure stability and continuous improvement</li> <li style="margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left:0.0px">Establish governance forums to review global planning performance, standards compliance, and improvement initiatives</li> <li style="margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left:0.0px">Serve as a central escalation point for systemic supply planning challenges and drive cross‑BU improvements based on performance insights</li> </ul> The Skills you will bring to the team <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left:0.0px">Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Supply Chain, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field</li> <li style="margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left:0.0px">5–7+ years of experience in supply planning, planning excellence, or continuous improvement roles</li> <li style="margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left:0.0px">Strong operational knowledge of Supply Planning, Material Planning, MRP, and Scheduling within an FMCG environment</li> <li style="margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left:0.0px">Hands‑on experience with advanced planning technologies such as Kinaxis, OMP, o9, JDA, or similar platforms</li> <li style="margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left:0.0px">Proficiency in analytics and data tools, including SAP IBP, APO, Oracle SCM, Anaplan, Tableau, Power BI, Python, R, SQL, or comparable technologies</li> <li style="margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left:0.0px">Experience defining and governing global master data standards (e.g., lead times, MOQs, planning parameters)</li> <li style="margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left:0.0px">Proven ability to develop global process standards, playbooks, templates, and training materials</li> <li style="margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left:0.0px">Strong stakeholder management skills with experience working across geographically and culturally diverse teams</li> <li style="margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left:0.0px">Highly organized, self‑motivated, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced, evolving environment</li> <li style="margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left:0.0px">A continuous improvement mindset with the ability to translate data and insights into actionable outcomes</li> </ul> What we would like to offer you! The opportunity to develop your career on a global stage, continuous learning through an on-demand learning platform, and a competitive compensation package including staff discounts, generous family leave policy, health & dental plan, competitive salary, 401K. Apply now and make a difference in the world of health and wellness! Glanbia provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles; the salary range for this role is $95,000-135,000 plus an annual bonus. This range may not be applicable to other locations and targeted salary is midpoint of range. Factors that could be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, years of experience and comparison to current employees already in this role. Glanbia has a unique portfolio of better nutrition brands and ingredients, addressing growing consumer demand in major health and nutrition categories. We play into the growing market trends of active lifestyles and, health and wellness. At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a wide variety of candidates, and we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. At Glanbia, our culture celebrates individuality, knowing that together we are more.

Supply Planning Excellence & CI Lead (Chicago, US, 60606) @ Glanbia PLC

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