Associate Director - Light Commercial SIOP

Carrier•Palm Beach Gardens, FL

6d•$143,000 - $286,000

About The Position

The Associate Director – Light Commercial SIOP leads the end-to-end Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning process for the Light Commercial business segment. The role aligns demand, supply, inventory, and financial plans to support operational excellence, service performance, and profitable growth, partnering across Commercial, Operations, Finance, Product Management, and Supply Chain. The role owns the monthly SIOP cycle and long-range planning process, develops integrated demand and supply strategies, and establishes planning standards and performance metrics. It integrates financial plans with SIOP, oversees demand and supply planning, balances service, inventory, capacity, and cost trade-offs, and provides senior leadership with insights, risks, and recommendations. The Associate Director leads, coaches, and develops a team of approximately nine SIOP and planning professionals. The role also builds planning capabilities in analytics and scenario modeling, enhances Kinaxis adoption, champions process maturity and digital enablement, and leads continuous-improvement initiatives. Travel may be required up to 20% of the time, primarily domestic.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of supply-chain and/or SIOP experience, or a master's degree and 8+ years of supply-chain and/or SIOP experience.
8+ years of management and leadership experience leading cross-department project teams or managing across multiple related departments.
Ability to travel up to 20% of the time, primarily domestically.

Nice To Haves

Experience with planning tools such as SAP, Kinaxis, and Power BI.
Experience in both demand planning and supply planning.
Prior experience owning a full SIOP process.

Responsibilities

Lead the development and execution of integrated demand and supply planning strategies.
Own and lead the monthly SIOP cycle, including demand review, supply review, executive S&OP, and consensus planning.
Establish and enforce standard work and performance metrics across the Light Commercial planning process.
Serve as the primary liaison between executive leadership and cross-functional teams regarding supply and demand alignment.
Own long-range planning, translating business growth objectives, market trends, product roadmaps, and financial targets into actionable supply-chain strategies.
Oversee demand planning with Sales, Marketing, and Product teams.
Ensure supply-planning capabilities across manufacturing, procurement, and distribution networks.
Balance trade-offs among service levels, inventory investment, capacity, and cost.
Integrate financial planning with SIOP and align plans with revenue, margin, and cash-flow objectives.
Translate operational plans into financial projections and identify risks and opportunities.
Partner with Finance on forecasting accuracy and variance analysis.
Lead, coach, and develop a team of approximately nine SIOP and planning professionals.
Build organizational capability in advanced planning, analytics, and scenario modeling.
Foster accountability, continuous improvement, and data-driven decision-making.
Enhance Kinaxis adoption across demand planning, supply planning, inventory optimization, capacity planning, and scenario modeling.
Use advanced analytics to improve forecast accuracy, inventory optimization, and responsiveness.
Lead scenario planning for risks such as demand volatility, supply constraints, and macroeconomic changes.
Provide actionable insights and recommendations to senior leadership.
Partner with Commercial teams on forecasts and promotional plans; Operations on capacity and production alignment; Supply Chain on inventory and logistics strategies; and Product teams on lifecycle and portfolio planning.
Facilitate executive-level discussions about trade-offs and prioritization.
Champion SIOP process maturity, best practices, and digital tools.
Lead initiatives to improve planning-cycle efficiency, data quality, and process integration.
Benchmark against industry standards and drive transformation where needed.
Monitor forecast accuracy and bias, customer service level/fill rate, inventory turns and working capital, revenue plan attainment, SIOP plan adherence, scenario readiness, and decision-cycle time.