The Global Value Stream Planner serves as the strategic integrator of global supply, production, and inventory performance across the enterprise’s value streams. This role ensures seamless alignment between customer demand, manufacturing capacity, and global inventory strategies — driving agility, resilience, and competitive advantage in the end-to-end supply chain.
Requirements
- Lead the development and execution of the global integrated supply plan for assigned value streams, ensuring full synchronization between demand, production, and inventory.
- Anticipate global supply and capacity challenges, enabling proactive decision-making and risk mitigation.
- Balance global production footprints to maximize flexibility, efficiency, and responsiveness.
- Identify and mitigate risks in capacity, materials, and logistics, ensuring continuity of supply.
- Lead initiatives to optimize working capital, reduce lead times, and increase supply chain flexibility.
- Define optimal global inventory strategies, replenishment policies, and safety stock parameters that balance service and cost.
- Manage capacity planning across global sites, ensuring alignment with customer commitments and operational capabilities.
- Identify and lead supply chain optimization opportunities, including make-versus-buy decisions, footprint optimization, and lead-time reduction initiatives.
- Serve as the central point of coordination between global and regional planning, procurement, manufacturing, and logistics teams.
- Lead regular value stream review meetings to align stakeholders on priorities, actions, and performance metrics.
- Support product lifecycle transitions (launches, transfers, and discontinuations) with integrated planning strategies.
- Leverage advanced planning tools (e.g., SAP IBP, Kinaxis, OMP, or equivalent) to enable data-driven decision-making.
- Analyze performance trends and identify opportunities to improve forecast accuracy, service level, and inventory efficiency.
- Apply lean and value stream mapping methodologies to eliminate waste and streamline planning processes.
- Champion best practices in Integrated Business Planning (IBP) across global operations.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Benefits package
- Paid time off
- Health insurance
- Retirement plan
- Professional development opportunities
