Director of Demand and Supply
Founded in 1986, our client is a leading developer and manufacturer of custom-formulated specialty ingredients & flavors. They develop tailored solutions for its diverse customer base of brands, retailers, and co-manufacturers across numerous food products and channels. With world-class facilities in California and Indiana, our client has served as a leading partner and innovator of industry-leading flavors and formulations for nearly four decades.Director of Demand and Supply
Job Type: Full-time; Hybrid
Responsibilities:
- Maintaining industry leading customer service levels.
- Development of reliable demand forecast models supporting an environment experiencing high organic growth.
- Partnering with Commercial, Finance, and Plants to develop and deliver commercial roadmap.
- Create and implement Integrated Business Planning process, incorporating customer and product expansion.
- Establish and lead a consensus demand planning model.
- Ensuring supply models are in place that support the demand forecast and work with finite planner to ensure products are available to support customer service levels.
- Implement an Integrated Business Plan model.
- Collaborate with Operations to continually validate capacity models.
- Collaborate with Procurement to ensure supply model can support growth targets.
- Establish inventory levels to support business growth.
- Lead production planning at the factories.
- Completing additional duties as assigned/needed.
- Bachelor’s Degree in related field is required.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in supply chain roles in plant and corporate environment.
- Experience in demand and supply planning.
- Experience working in a growth environment.
- Demonstrated understanding of demand forecasting and the ability to develop these models.
- Ability to communicate effectively with customers and internal stakeholders.
- Ability to use technology (ERP/Forecasting software, etc.) to improve supply chain processes.
- Utilize data to identify trends, analyze performance and drive improvement
- Establish meaningful KPI’s to establish a reliable base line and drive improvement on supply chain processes.
- Ability to build and develop an effective supply chain team.
- Attention to detail and accuracy.
- Cross functional team collaboration.
- Collaborative personality and communication style with a strong inclination to action.
- Ability to travel monthly to Irwindale, CA.
This position offers a competitive base salary.
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