Associate Director, Supply Chain Management
About The Position
The Associate Director, Supply Chain Management leads the global design, development, and rollout of demand and supply planning, production planning, and detailed scheduling solutions. The role requires deep planning and scheduling expertise, hands-on experience with Kinaxis Maestro and SAP ECC/S4, and a record of leading complex, multi-site implementations. The Associate Director establishes technical standards, resolves complex issues, and ensures scalable, robust solutions aligned with supply chain and digital strategies. The role works with Product Owners, architects, site leads, and supply chain stakeholders to translate business strategy and site needs into a unified scheduling roadmap and architecture. It leads technical design, configuration, development, integrations, testing, deployment readiness, and cutover for global solutions, and uses data-driven methods and AI-driven automation to improve planning productivity and solution quality.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in supply chain management, Industrial Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Management, or a related field.
- Ten or more years of technical solution experience in supply chain, production planning, and site planning, applying MRP, capacity planning, production scheduling, and constraint management concepts.
- Extensive hands-on experience in Kinaxis Maestro authoring and Enterprise Scheduling.
- Kinaxis Maestro Author Level 2 or higher certification.
- Extensive SAP experience across APO Demand Planning, Supply Planning, PP/DS, MRP, and master data management.
- Experience with AI- or agent-based solutions for supply chain planning business needs, including design and automation.
- Strong experience working within Agile or product-based delivery models, including backlog management, iterative delivery, and release management.
- Strong leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills, including the ability to work across teams and communicate effectively with senior stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end technical design of production planning and detailed scheduling solutions with the Product Owner, architects, and site leads.
- Translate business strategy, supply chain goals, and site needs into a unified scheduling roadmap and architecture.
- Set design standards, integration patterns, and data models for scalable, high-performing, maintainable global deployments.
- Lead configuration, development, data orchestration, and ERP, MES, and analytics integrations for scheduling and site planning applications such as SAP and Kinaxis Maestro.
- Own global technical rollouts, including deployment, readiness, cutover, and testing.
- Partner with the Product Owner on backlog, priorities, and releases while aligning with enterprise, solution, and data architects.
- Partner with site and supply chain stakeholders to capture requirements, deliver business value, and communicate technical topics clearly.
- Lead data-driven, cross-functional resolution of complex planning and scheduling issues, identifying constraints and optimization opportunities.
- Improve algorithms, configurations, and processes while promoting reusable best practices to enhance service, efficiency, and solution quality.
- Use AI-driven automation to improve productivity across planning communities.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision healthcare benefits and other insurance benefits for employees and family.
- Retirement benefits, including 401(k).
- Paid holidays, vacation, compassionate days, and sick days.
- Eligible for an annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
