Team Manager, Supply Chain Planning

$104,100 - $199,100/Yr

Clorox - Pleasanton, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Pleasanton, CA

Chemical Manufacturing

About the position

At Clorox, we are committed to growth for our people and our brands. In this role, you will be responsible for conducting short-term supply planning and supply matching analysis, identifying strategies to fill gaps in our supply chain. You will drive the weekly Sales and Operations Execution (S&OE) process across a 1-3 month time horizon, implementing near-term planning against the Business Unit (BU) constrained forecast and integrated business plan. Your role will involve tracking execution, identifying demand and supply gaps to the S&OP plan, and driving balanced demand/supply resolution in coordination with impacted functions. You will access and balance trade-offs and strategies to meet near-term BU goals, escalating issues in the BU Operations Meeting and to the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Lead and General Manager as warranted. Proactively identifying and escalating risks related to forecast consumption, service levels, and inventory gaps will be crucial to delivering against the consensus demand plan. You will also monitor inventory health and recast replenishment plans to prevent future service issues, trigger and co-lead allocation strategy and demand shaping actions, and coordinate with the BU to ensure the delivery of the short-term plan while escalating issues as necessary. As the primary downstream point of contact on the S&OE plan for logistics and customer operations, you will coordinate with both the Business Planning Manager and Network Planning Manager to flag trending issues that need to be incorporated into longer-term supply plans. Additionally, you will actively champion and contribute to a community of like practitioners, leading inventory planners and mentoring, developing, and training team members.

Responsibilities

• Drive weekly S&OE process across 1-3 month time horizon, implementing near-term planning against BU constrained forecast and integrated business plan.
• Track execution, identify demand and supply gaps to S&OP plan, and drive balanced demand/supply resolution in coordination with impacted functions.
• Access/balance trade-offs and strategies to meet near-term BU goals for escalation in BU Ops Meeting and to IBP Lead and GM as warranted.
• Proactively identify and escalate risks forecast consumption, service levels, and inventory gap-to-target to deliver against the consensus demand plan.
• Monitor inventory health and recast replenishment plans to prevent future service issues.
• Trigger and co-lead allocation strategy & demand shaping actions.
• Coordinate BU to ensure delivery of short-term plan and escalation of issues.
• Act as the primary downstream POC on S&OE plan for logistics and customer ops.
• Coordinate with Business Planning Manager/Network Planning Manager to flag trending issues for longer-term supply plans.
• Actively champion and contribute to a community of like practitioners.
• Lead inventory planner and mentor, develop, and train team members.

Requirements

• Strong business acumen and skills to synthesize disparate data into coherent, forward-looking business strategy and tactics.
• Strong financial competence focused on working capital and P&L implications of overall supply chain and network balancing choices.
• Strong analytic skillset and familiarity with data science applications, including building an inventory strategy and understanding its drivers.
• Ability to analyze and diagnose core forecast drivers and understand their impact on forecast with Iris tools.
• In-depth understanding of constraints and their impact on plan execution.
• Understanding of how a forecast model works, including strengths and pitfalls of the ML model and core elements of model predictivity.
• High fluency in working with data and recognizing trends within it to translate into short-term demand and supply plan narrative.
• Exposure to customer operations with the capacity to understand and respond to changes in demand drivers.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain, potential trade-offs, and impact on short-term execution.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in a fast-paced environment with the ability to act quickly and prioritize effectively.
• Ability to network cross-functionally and influence without authority.
• Intellectual curiosity and tenacity in problem-solving.
• Creativity in developing solutions.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health plans
• Market-leading 401(k) program with company match
• Flexible time off benefits including half-day summer Fridays
• Inclusive fertility/adoption benefits
• Transparent salary ranges with opportunities for growth
• Participation in Clorox's incentive plans