Associate Director of Network Flow (Channel Management)

Clorox • Alpharetta, GA

8d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Associate Director, Network Flow - Upstream Planning, Outlook & Insights leads the upstream Network Flow capability by creating an integrated, multi-horizon view of product flow across the Logistics network, aligning business priorities with demand, supply, inventory, customer, deployment, fulfillment, transportation, capacity, and financial inputs into a single decision-ready outlook. This role proactively identifies risks and opportunities, assesses plan executability, develops scenarios, and recommends tradeoffs that optimize service, cost, inventory, throughput, capacity, and network stability while integrating cross-functional plans across IBP, Deployment, Customer Supply Chain, Fulfillment, Transportation, Manufacturing, Finance, and Network Optimization. Success is measured by earlier risk identification, improved forward visibility, stronger decision-making, fewer late-stage plan changes, and the adoption of a unified Logistics outlook to support enterprise-wide decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, logistics, operations, engineering, analytics, business, or related field, or equivalent experience, MBA or advanced degree is preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in supply chain planning, Logistics, IBP, inventory, deployment, transportation, fulfillment, analytics, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience integrating complex functional plans and data into cross-functional scenarios or recommendations.
• Experience evaluating tradeoffs across service, cost, inventory, capacity, and execution.
• Demonstrated ability to influence decisions across organizational boundaries without relying on direct authority.
• Experience building new planning, control tower, analytics, or operating-model capability.
• Experience with enterprise planning, ERP, transportation, warehouse, business-intelligence, or scenario-modeling platforms.
• Experience translating digital, advanced analytics, automation, or AI-enabled outputs into business decisions
• Strategic and systems thinking
• Strong analytical judgment and financial acumen
• Executive communication and decision-storytelling
• Ability to manage complexity and ambiguity.
• Cross-functional influence and stakeholder alignment.
• Builder mindset, change leadership, and operating-model design.
• Strong accountability for outcomes, not activity.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the integrated Logistics flow outlook across near-term, mid-range, and rolling long-range horizons.
• Bring together expected demand, supply, inventory, customer, deployment, warehouse, transportation, capacity, cost, and Business Unit inputs.
• Assess whether the resulting plan is executable and identify conflicts, gaps, assumptions, and decisions required.
• Drive network decisions through a weekly outlook covering 100% of priority flows, delivered 95% on time.
• Identify emerging bottlenecks, network imbalances, capacity exposure, service risks, cost risks, and flow opportunities before execution is affected.
• Develop scenarios involving flow paths, timing, node loading, deployment sequencing, transportation alternatives, and capacity responses.
• Evaluate tradeoffs across service, cost, inventory, throughput, space, transportation capacity, and execution stability.
• Translate analysis into clear recommendations, assumptions, value at stake, and decision deadlines.
• Define the decision-critical inputs, owners, definitions, refresh cadence, and quality expectations required for the flow outlook.
• Partner with IBP, Customer Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Deployment, Fulfillment, Transportation, Finance, Logistics Business Leaders, and Business Units to validate inputs and assumptions.
• Create clear interfaces and decision rights that preserve functional ownership while enabling total-network optimization.
• Escalate missing or conflicting inputs that prevent a reliable, executable outlook.
• Establish requirements for dashboards, models, alerts, scenario tools, and automated insights that improve visibility and time to decision.
• Accelerate decision-making by automating priority data inputs, reducing manual effort 30% and achieving 95% completeness.
• Challenge data quality and model assumptions and translate analytical outputs into operationally relevant insights.
• Maintain a learning loop from plan versus actual performance to improve future outlooks and recommendations.
• Define upstream Network Flow standard work, planning horizons, deliverables, governance, and capability roadmap.
• Build organizational capability in end-to-end thinking, scenario development, financial acumen, analytics translation, and decision quality.
• Lead through influence across a highly matrixed environment and reinforce a network-first, enterprise mindset.
• Support the scale-up of the future Network Flow organization and development of supporting talent.

Benefits

• Robust health plans
• Market-leading 401(k) program with a company match
• Flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays depending on location)
• Inclusive fertility/adoption benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director