Director, Global SIOP

Columbus McKinnon Corporation•Charlotte, NC

About The Position

The Global Director of SIOP will design, implement and continuously improve the global Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning operating system for Columbus McKinnon. The role connects demand, supply, capacity, inventory, procurement and finance across multiple business units, manufacturing plants and product families, with an aspired 18-month forward planning horizon. The leader will create a practical, executive-ready SIOP environment that can operate across a mixed digital landscape including SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, SAP IBP, Anaplan, local ERP instances, planning tools and Power BI.

Requirements

10+ years of progressive experience in supply chain, operations planning, materials management, demand/supply planning, or IBP.
10+ years of progressive leadership experience managing cross-functional teams and driving performance.
5+ years leading SIOP/S&OP/IBP or master scheduling in complex, multi site manufacturing environments.
Experience working across multiple ERP and planning platforms (SAP S/4HANA, ECC, IBP, Anaplan).
Demonstrated ability to build executive dashboards, KPI governance, and cross functional decision forums.
Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business, or Data/Analytics required.
Ability to travel domestically and internationally to manufacturing sites and regional leadership locations.

Nice To Haves

MBA preferred.
Preferred certifications: ASCM CPIM, CSCP, CLTD, Lean Six Sigma, SAP/IBP/Anaplan training, Power BI/Tableau experience.

Responsibilities

Design and deploy the enterprise SIOP framework, including demand, supply, inventory, financial reconciliation, and executive S&OP decision forums; establish standard work, roles, decision rights, cadence, templates, and governance across global, regional, and site teams.
Lead the monthly executive S&OP cycle with clear decisions on demand risk, supply constraints, capacity, inventory, customer service, backlog, and cash impact; maintain a controlled decision log linking actions to S&OE execution.
Build adoption and planning discipline across Commercial, Operations, Procurement, Finance, Product Management, IT, and site leadership.
Harmonize planning data across SAP S/4HANA, ECC, IBP, Anaplan, and local ERPs; define data ownership, refresh cadence, master‑data standards, exception logic, and control points.
Create and maintain a cross‑system KPI hierarchy and Power BI reporting layer that standardizes metrics, supports executive dashboards, and feeds the monthly S&OP deck.
Translate data into clear executive narratives on changes, drivers, required decisions, risks, and financial/service impact; collaborate with Finance to reconcile volume, mix, backlog, inventory, productivity, and savings to EBITDA‑relevant outcomes.
Define handoffs between monthly SIOP decisions and weekly/daily S&OE execution; ensure operational realities (shortages, schedule adherence, supplier misses, capacity constraints) feed back into demand, supply, inventory, and supplier development assumptions.
Develop routines for backlog recovery, RCCM, forecast sharing, supplier capacity balancing, and lead‑time optimization.
Lead planning actions to improve inventory turns, DIO, excess/obsolete reduction, working capital, OTIF, and backlog; build supplier‑facing mechanisms for forecast sharing, continuity planning, OTD improvement, and risk mitigation.
Connect SIOP outputs to material productivity, PPV, savings realization, runout timing, and P&L impact; identify demand/supply imbalances and lead cross‑functional mitigation plans.
Conduct site and regional maturity assessments to identify gaps in planning process, ERP usage, master data, analytics, and organizational capability.