Director, Supply Chain

Land Vehicles Americas•Elkhart, IN

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Director of Supply Chain is the operational and analytical backbone of Dometic's North American supply chain. This leader owns the full planning ecosystem — spanning Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) for mid-to-long-term business alignment, Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) for short-term planning and real-time execution, supply planning for traded goods and manufactured components, material planning across all manufacturing facilities, and inventory control to meet working capital targets. This is a role that demands equal measures of strategic thinking and execution discipline. The Director must be a credible voice in executive S&OP reviews, a rigorous steward of the weekly S&OE rhythm, an accountable owner of inventory health, and a hands-on leader capable of developing a team of analysts and planners into a high-performing, insight-driven function. The ideal candidate combines strong planning leadership and sound supply chain judgment with the ability to align Sales, Finance, Operations, and Manufacturing around a single, executable plan. Experience with planning systems and analytics is important, but success in this role is driven by robust processes, execution discipline, and turning insight into action.

Requirements

Strong planning leadership
Sound supply chain judgment
Ability to align Sales, Finance, Operations, and Manufacturing around a single, executable plan
Experience with planning systems and analytics
Robust processes
Execution discipline
Turning insight into action
Experience managing a team of analysts and planners

Nice To Haves

Experience with SO99+ (ToolsGroup)

Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end S&OP cycle across the North American business — from statistical baseline and demand collaboration through supply review and executive S&OP.
Ensure every stage of the monthly S&OP cadence produces decision-ready outputs that balance demand signals, supply constraints, inventory targets, and financial objectives.
Serve as the primary supply chain voice in executive S&OP meetings — presenting performance, risk, and opportunity with clarity to the VP of Supply Chain and senior leadership.
Facilitate cross-functional alignment sessions with Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Product Development, translating commercial inputs into a consensus demand plan.
Define, track, and govern S&OP KPIs — forecast accuracy (MAPE/bias), fill rate, inventory turns, and planning cycle adherence — with a continuous improvement mandate.
Prepare and communicate monthly supply chain performance reports to the executive team.
Own the weekly S&OE process — bridging the gap between the monthly S&OP plan and real-time execution, ensuring near-term supply and demand imbalances are identified and resolved with urgency.
Lead the weekly S&OE review cadence with Operations, Procurement, Logistics, and Customer Service — driving rapid decision-making on order fulfillment priorities, expedites, substitutions, and supply exceptions.
Maintain a rolling 4–8 week execution horizon view, monitoring order backlog, open purchase orders, production schedules, and inbound shipment status to proactively surface risks.
Establish clear escalation paths between S&OE and S&OP — ensuring short-term deviations are captured, root-caused, and fed back into the monthly planning cycle as structured input.
Define S&OE metrics — adherence to plan, exception resolution cycle time, expedite frequency, and short-term fill rate — and drive continuous improvement against these targets.
Manage the aggregation of demand plans across product lines and business segments, producing a rolling 12–18 month unconstrained demand view in units and value.
Lead statistical forecasting and collaborative adjustments using SO99+ (ToolsGroup), leveraging advanced algorithms and exception-based management to optimize forecast accuracy.
Drive new product introduction (NPI) planning in partnership with Sales and Product Development, ensuring accurate ramp-up assumptions and inventory positioning from day one.
Document, validate, and challenge planning assumptions with rigor — creating a culture of accountability and intellectual honesty within the planning team.
Monitor market signals, customer trends, and macro factors that may influence demand; translate findings into actionable planning adjustments.
Lead supply planning for both traded finished goods and manufactured components, ensuring the right inventory is available at the right location and time.
Oversee translation of consensus demand plans into supply orders, production schedules, and replenishment signals across internal and external supply sources.
Manage supply risk through scenario planning, safety stock optimization, and supplier capacity alignment — identifying constraints early and driving mitigation actions.
Optimize inventory investment across the supply network, balancing service levels with working capital efficiency and inventory days targets.
Partner with the Director of Procurement & Strategic Sourcing to align supply plans with supplier capacity commitments and sourcing strategies.
Lead the material planning function across all Dometic manufacturing facilities, ensuring uninterrupted material availability to support production schedules and throughput targets.
Own MRP/ERP planning parameters — lot sizes, lead times, safety stock, reorder points — driving discipline in data accuracy and system integrity across all sites.
Partner with Plant Operations, Procurement, and Logistics to align material flow with production capacity, minimizing risk of downtime from material shortages or excess.
Promote tight integration between planning, logistics, and operations to optimize schedule attainment, adherence, and on-time delivery performance.
Standardize material planning processes and tools across manufacturing sites, reducing variability and building a scalable operating model.
Own the inventory control function across all sites — establishing and enforcing policies, procedures, and governance frameworks that ensure inventory accuracy, visibility, and accountability.
Lead the slow-moving and obsolete (SLOB) inventory management program — maintaining a regular review cadence, quantifying exposure by site and category, and driving structured disposition plans including redeployment, markdown, liquidation, or write-off in partnership with Finance.
Define and manage inventory targets by SKU, site, and category — balancing service level requirements against working capital efficiency and inventory days objectives.
Establish and track inventory health KPIs — days of supply, inventory turns, SLOB as a percentage of total inventory, and write-off trends — with regular reporting to the VP of Supply Chain and Finance.
Drive root cause analysis on inventory imbalances — excess, shortage, and mislocution — and implement systemic corrective actions that prevent recurrence.
Partner with Procurement, Operations, and Finance on inventory-related financial close activities, including reserves, write-downs, and period-end reconciliation.
Champion cycle counting and physical inventory accuracy programs across all manufacturing and distribution sites, ensuring alignment between system records and physical stock.
Serve as the functional owner of the planning tools used for replenishment and inventory optimization, driving governance, parameter discipline, adoption, and continuous improvement.
Guide the ERP/APS systems roadmap for planning — partnering with IT and the VP of Supply Chain on tool enhancements, integrations, and data quality initiatives.
Build and maintain planning analytics frameworks and dashboards that give leadership real-time visibility into supply chain health across S&OP, S&OE, and inventory performance.
Apply Lean and 'right first time' principles to planning workflows, eliminating waste and non-value-added activities across the full planning cycle.
Identify root causes of forecast variance and planning misses; implement corrective actions that deliver measurable, sustained improvement.
Lead, coach, and develop a team of 8–15 demand planning, supply planning, material planning, and inventory control professionals across Elkhart and Greenbrier operations.
Align individual development plans to the planning function's strategic objectives — building structure, accountability, and analytical capability at every level.
Build a high-performance planning culture defined by data discipline, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Develop and retain key talent — mentoring planners and analysts with clear growth paths and succession depth across the function.