Director Collaborative Planning

Maker's Pride Talent Acquisition Team•Carol Stream, IL

1d•$160,226 - $220,367•Onsite

About The Position

The Director Collaborative Planning leads the company’s 5–13 week collaborative planning process across platforms. This role manages the corporate planning team, ensures planning outputs are consistent and actionable, and connects demand, supply, capacity, operations, customer, and finance inputs into an aligned near-term plan. The role is responsible for driving planning discipline, issue escalation, cross-functional alignment, and plan reliability across the 5–13 week horizon. In addition, this role leads the planning, execution, and governance of major supply chain transformation initiatives across the business. This role partners with Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, Commercial, IT, HR, and plant leadership to ensure transformation programs are clearly prioritized, well-managed, and delivered with measurable business impact. The role is responsible for driving implementation discipline, tracking progress, removing roadblocks, managing cross-functional dependencies, and ensuring initiatives translate into sustainable process, organization, cost, service, and capability improvements.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, Logistics, Business Administration, or related field.
MS Office Suite
SAP
Blue Yonder
Collaborative planning leadership (5–13 week horizon)
Integrated demand, supply, and capacity planning expertise
Cross-functional alignment and decision facilitation
Strong understanding of S&OP and near-term execution handoffs
Data-driven decision making and KPI tracking (service, inventory, adherence)
Continuous improvement of planning processes, tools, and data quality
Team leadership, coaching, and capability development
Executive communication and stakeholder influence
Supply chain transformation program leadership and execution
End-to-end supply chain expertise (planning, inventory, logistics, warehousing)
Strategic roadmap development and initiative prioritization
Program governance, risk management, and performance tracking
Financial acumen, including business case development and value realization
Continuous improvement and operational excellence methodologies
Change management, communication, and adoption leadership
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
Ability to manage complexity and drive results in a matrixed environment

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree or professional certifications (e.g., APICS, Six Sigma)

Responsibilities

Lead the 5–13 week collaborative planning process across platforms, ensuring plans are accurate, aligned, consistent, and executable.
Manage and develop platform-level planning managers responsible for the 5–13 week planning horizon.
Identify demand, supply, capacity, labor, material, and service risks within the 5–13 week horizon and ensure timely escalation.
Partner with plant scheduling teams to ensure a clear handoff from the 5–13 week collaborative plan into the 0–4 week execution window.
Drive cross-functional alignment on planning tradeoffs, including customer priorities, capacity constraints, inventory impacts, and service risk.
Own management of segmentation and production wheel methodologies, adoption, and adherence.
Improve planning processes, tools, and data quality to increase visibility, consistency, and decision speed.
Lead the execution and governance of supply chain transformation initiatives across planning, inventory, logistics, warehousing, operating model, process improvement, and enabling technology.
Manage the overall supply chain transformation roadmap, including priorities, timelines, milestones, dependencies, risks, and expected business impact.
Partner with Supply Chain leadership to translate strategic priorities into clear initiatives, workplans, owners, deliverables, and measurable outcomes.
Track initiative progress against scope, timing, savings, service, productivity, working capital, and other defined performance targets.
Identify risks, roadblocks, and cross-functional dependencies; work with functional leaders to resolve issues and keep initiatives on track.
Support change management, communication, training, and adoption plans to ensure new processes, tools, and ways of working are sustained.
Partner with Finance to validate business cases, track value capture, and report realized benefits from transformation initiatives.
Develop standard templates, playbooks, reporting tools, and project management discipline to improve execution consistency across supply chain initiatives.