Associate Director – Materials Planning & SIOP

Country:

United States of America

Location:

CABRA: Bradenton Florida 8985 Town Center Parkway, Bradenton, FL, 34202 USA

Carrier is the leading global provider of healthy, safe and sustainable building and cold chain solutions with a world-class, diverse workforce with business segments covering HVAC, refrigeration, and fire and security. We make modern life possible by delivering safer, smarter and more sustainable services that make a difference to people and our planet while revolutionizing industry trends. This is why we come to work every day. Join us and we can make a difference together.

Edwards, a global leader in fire alarm, mass notification, and hazard warning system solutions.

Kidde is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of fire safety products. Each day, we work to expand upon our legacy of innovation, providing advanced solutions to protect people and property from fire and related hazards.

About this role

Edwards/Kidde has an opportunity for an Associate Director, Material Planning & SIOP to manage the SIOP process for our brands and provide vision, leadership and direction to optimize our SIOP process.

Primary responsibilities include evaluate and develop the process, leading a set of monthly decision-making processes to balance demand and supply, to integrate demand planning, financial planning, capacity planning and supply planning, and to link high level strategic plans with day-to-day operations.

The Associate Director, Material Planning & SIOP is also responsible for ensuring that all parties are aware of the key business issues, reconciliation and recommendations developed, and kept informed of decisions made throughout the SIOP process.

This pivotal role ensures alignment across the Sales, Production, Supply Chain, and Finance teams to deliver customer satisfaction, optimize inventory, and enable financial predictability. The Associate Director, Material Planning & SIOP synchronizes all the processes and functions, ensuring a unified approach to managing our product supply and demand.

The Associate Director, Material Planning & SIOP is based in Bradenton FL on a hybrid work model and will include 10-20% traveling global and local.

We value our people and offer an extensive benefits package, with financial rewards including health insurance, a retirement savings plan, and also lifestyle support with flexible working and parental leave. Plus, we’ll support your growth with paid-for external training programs and courses.

We value our people and offer an extensive benefits package, with financial rewards including health insurance, retirement savings plan, and also lifestyle support with flexible working and parental leave. Plus, we’ll support your growth with paid-for external training programs and courses.

Key Responsibilities

Function as the business leader and facilitator of the overall SIOP process

Facilitate regular SIOP meetings and ensure active participation from stakeholders; and monthly regional E-SIOP Reviews

Work cross-functionally to ensure that sales, operations, and inventory plans are aligned with financial growth objectives

Collaborate with regional marketing and sales teams to establish demand plans that are aligned to revenue plans

Responsible for converting demand plans to a long-term supply plan that takes into account capacity and material availability considerations.

Oversee the global capacity planning and long-term supply plans that meet customer requirements while optimizing plant efficiencies and inventory

Interact with the operations team to assess production capabilities and constraints

Identify and mitigate risks in the SIOP process through thorough analysis and proactive planning

Confirm that issues and imbalances, surfacing during the monthly cycle, are reviewed, resolved, or escalated

Lead discussions to review, resolve, or escalate issues in the most appropriate manner prior to the E-SIOP review

Ensure that key business issues are reconciled, recommendations proposed, and the information pack analyzed and prepared to effectively support the E-SIOP review

Guarantee full understanding of the significant financial implications of changes to the demand, supply, product, and project plans

Develop, implement, and optimize SIOP processes and tools

Define KPIs and regular reporting metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of the SIOP process

Foster forward-looking capabilities across a 3–5-year horizon; ensure that the demand, capacity and commit capabilities will meet growth’s objectives

Evaluate the feasibility of the SIOP supply plan

Identify gaps/risks to the committed supply plan and scenarios to resolve

Make sure of a full alignment of Demand/Supply/Financial Plans

Supervise customer on-time delivery and “days on hand” inventory improvement

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree

10 years of experience in Supply Chain, SIOP, Forecasting, Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Inventory Planning, Materials Management, Master Planning, or Scheduling

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or equivalent

MBA

Implement or lead SIOP processes in a manufacturing environment

Business acumen/knowledge, general management, and leadership capability to lead business or functional teams

Action-oriented, results-driven with strong analytical and problem-solving skills

English verbal and written communication skills

Work independently, collaboratively, and effectively manage multiple projects

Project management skills and experience

Business acumen specific to Inventory, Revenue, Units, and Margin

Additional information:

This position doesn’t support immigration sponsorship

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