Director, Supply Chain

PLZ, Corp • Downers Grove, IL

9h

About The Position

The Director of Supply Chain, Personal Care leads integrated supply planning and purchasing for the Personal Care Business Unit. The role is accountable for developing and executing supply, inventory, capacity, and material strategies that support customer service, working capital, cost, and growth objectives across Personal Care manufacturing locations. As a member of the Personal Care Supply Chain team, the Director leads the SIOP supply planning process, the network of site production schedulers, and the buying organization to ensure reliable supply, disciplined execution, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, business, engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive supply chain experience supporting multi-site manufacturing operations, including significant leadership experience across supply planning, materials management, purchasing, or procurement.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the Personal Care supply chain, including chemical and raw material sourcing and relationships with key suppliers.
• Proven success developing supply and inventory plans that improve working capital while achieving strong customer service performance.
• Experience leading networked planning and buying teams responsible for significant direct material spend.
• Strong working knowledge of SIOP/S&OP or Integrated Business Planning processes, capacity planning, production scheduling, supplier management, and inventory optimization.
• Proficiency in SAP, including experience with planning and purchasing master data.
• Strong Excel and analytical skills.
• Experience building supply continuity through multiple qualified sources, supplier risk management, and performance improvement.
• Successful track record of delivering supply chain KPIs and business objectives across service, inventory, cost, schedule attainment, and supplier performance.
• Strong leadership, communication, negotiation, decision-making, and cross-functional collaboration skills, including the ability to lead remote teams.

Nice To Haves

• APICS certification or an advanced degree.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute an integrated supply chain strategy supporting the Personal Care Business Unit’s five-year growth plan and annual operating objectives.
• Lead the monthly SIOP supply review, aligning supply, inventory, capacity, purchasing, and material plans with the demand plan, and develop and communicate alternatives when plans are misaligned.
• Translate demand and inventory requirements into achievable capacity, production, material, and purchasing plans across Personal Care manufacturing locations.
• Partner with Operations to measure capacity utilization and deploy capacity in support of customer service, operational continuity, and lowest landed cost.
• Lead and develop site production schedulers and the centralized transactional buying team, establishing consistent standard work, clear accountability, and performance against defined KPIs.
• Standardize and streamline scheduling processes and tools.
• Oversee material planning and buying execution to identify component and raw material requirements, address shortages, and communicate risks to production schedules and the annual operating plan.
• Ensure supply planning, scheduling, and purchasing processes support targets for OTIF, schedule attainment, inventory days on hand, working capital, and capacity utilization.
• Support Procurement in identifying and qualifying new or alternate sources of supply to improve continuity, reduce cost, and address supplier performance issues.
• Build supply chain resilience through supplier diversification, risk mitigation, and strong relationships with key Personal Care suppliers.
• Ensure SAP master data, planning parameters, safety stocks, and inventory settings are accurate and optimized for service and inventory objectives.
• Support new products, design changes, material onboarding, product conversions, end-of-life runouts, and disposition of slow-moving and obsolete materials.
• Collaborate with Corporate Supply Chain, Demand Planning, Operations, Quality, R&D, Finance, and other stakeholders to improve SIOP and end-to-end supply chain performance.
• Drive supply chain KPI improvements through root cause analysis and corrective actions across planning, purchasing, supplier, and inventory performance.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and talent development for geographically dispersed planning and purchasing teams.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Company-paid life insurance and short-term disability.
• Voluntary benefits including additional life, disability, and hospital/accident insurance.
• 401(k) with company-provided match.
• Paid time off.
• Bonus incentive programs, subject to program rules and individual and organizational performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director