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Overview
Value Chain Planning owns a critical part of the supply chain, ensuring clarity between operations, sales and finance on status of products, expected shipment and arrival dates, and insights to anything driving changes to plan. This role is accountable for working across functions and integrating the work of different supply chain disciplines to ensure optimal supply to meet customer’s demand and to deliver the business’ annual operating plan.
Overview
Value Chain Planning owns a critical part of the supply chain, ensuring clarity between operations, sales and finance on status of products, expected shipment and arrival dates, and insights to anything driving changes to plan. This role is accountable for working across functions and integrating the work of different supply chain disciplines to ensure optimal supply to meet customer’s demand and to deliver the business’ annual operating plan.
This leader will work with region sales, product management, and demand planning teams to understand demand requirements and align with procurement, manufacturing and distribution to ensure product and resources are in place to meet those requirements. Collaboration with other value chain leaders to communicate, root cause, and recommend solutions to constraints across the supply chain is critical.
Responsibilities
* Lead and manage the global supply planning function / team for assigned value chains.
* Implement and stabilize plans and decisions from the monthly enterprise Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process.
* Own alignment with stakeholders (planning, sales, manufacturing, distribution, purchasing) by executing Integrated Tactical Planning (ITP) weekly.
* Develop a comprehensive view of the demand plan to ensure data accuracy and visibility of demand signals to drive supply plans.
* Develop an accurate and stable supply signal to be used by global operations to meet customer demand.
* Monitor and synchronize information and product flows to prevent supply disruptions and support new opportunities.
* Partner with Inventory Optimization to maintain inventory levels in line with service requirements and customer expectations.
* Coordinate on demand visibility for new product introductions and discontinuations to optimize revenue and minimize Excess & Obsolete.
* Work with Strategy & Operational Excellence team to implement supply transparency tools and processes.
* Leverage the Supply Review step of IBP to communicate potential interruptions and solutions.
* Provide leadership and development to the global supply planning team.
Qualifications
* Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Supply Chain or Industrial Engineering; Masters preferred.
* 10+ years of hands-on combined experience in Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Production Planning or other Supply Chain disciplines.
* Previous experience leading the implementation or execution of IBP process, S&OP or related business planning process.
* Strong understanding of ERP/MRP fundamentals.
* Travel up to 20% of the time.
* Preferred location: At a Global Operations site in the US or Europe.
Company Description
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) is a global leader in analytical instruments, separations technologies, and software, serving the life, materials, food, and environmental sciences for over 65 years. Our Company helps ensure the efficacy of medicines, the safety of food and the purity of water, and the quality and sustainability of products used every day. In over 100 countries, our 7,600+ passionate employees collaborate with customers in laboratories, manufacturing sites, and hospitals to accelerate the benefits of pioneering science .
Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It benefits our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.
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