Senior Director Supply and Operations Planning
About The Position
Bimbo Bakeries USA is seeking a strategic, results-oriented Senior Director of Supply & Operations Planning (S&OP) to lead the end-to-end planning process across the company’s six operating regions and provide integrated planning leadership for the U.S. business. Reporting to the Vice President of Supply Chain or an equivalent executive leader, the position develops and executes an integrated planning process that aligns customer demand, production, distribution, inventory, procurement, and financial objectives. The Senior Director leads a team of planning professionals and collaborates with Sales, Marketing, Manufacturing, Procurement, Logistics, Finance, Product Supply, and executive leaders. The role is the enterprise’s primary planning leadership position, providing visibility into risks and opportunities, using analytics and scenario planning to support decisions, and aligning plans from regional teams through enterprise leadership. The goal is to deliver strong customer service while optimizing costs, capacity utilization, inventory investment, and operational performance.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations Management, Engineering, Business, Finance, or a related field.
- At least 10 years of progressive leadership experience in supply chain, planning, manufacturing, operations, or logistics.
- At least 7 years of leadership experience managing large teams and complex cross-functional organizations.
- Demonstrated success leading S&OP, Integrated Business Planning (IBP), Supply Planning, or Operations Planning in a large CPG, food, beverage, or manufacturing environment.
- Experience managing multi-site production networks with complex SKU portfolios and high-volume distribution environments.
- Track record of leading enterprise transformation initiatives and delivering measurable business results.
- Ability to adapt approach and attitude to changing situations.
- Ability to hold oneself and others accountable for commitments.
- Ability to create a motivating environment that helps the organization achieve its objectives.
- Ability to interpret complex, high-volume, and sometimes contradictory information to solve problems.
Nice To Haves
- MBA or other advanced degree.
- Experience in food, bakery, refrigerated, frozen, or packaged goods.
- Experience with SAP APO, SAP IBP, Kinaxis, Blue Yonder, o9, Oracle, or similar planning platforms.
- Experience supporting large-scale direct-store-delivery (DSD) and warehouse distribution networks.
- Six Sigma, APICS (CPIM/CSCP), Lean, or equivalent certification.
Responsibilities
- Own and lead the monthly S&OP process across all six operating regions.
- Establish and continuously improve an integrated planning process connecting demand, supply, inventory, capacity, and financial plans.
- Lead Executive S&OP reviews and provide actionable recommendations, risk assessments, and decision support to senior leadership.
- Align operational plans with annual operating plans, budgets, forecasts, and strategic objectives.
- Standardize enterprise planning methodologies, governance, metrics, and performance reviews.
- Lead supply planning across bakeries, distribution centers, and co-manufacturing partners.
- Optimize production capacity utilization and network efficiency while balancing service, freshness, cost, and inventory objectives.
- Develop long-range capacity plans and identify future constraints, investment needs, and productivity opportunities.
- Partner with Manufacturing and Operations to improve throughput, schedule adherence, and operational reliability.
- Drive inventory optimization to improve working capital and reduce waste.
- Collaborate with Sales, Category Management, Revenue Growth Management, Marketing, and Customer Teams to turn market insights into actionable supply plans.
- Incorporate promotional plans, product launches, customer initiatives, and seasonal demand patterns into planning processes.
- Lead resolution of supply-demand imbalances and facilitate timely decisions.
- Establish scenario planning to address market volatility, growth opportunities, ingredient shortages, labor challenges, and service risks.
- Develop planning analytics and dashboards covering service, inventory, forecast accuracy, capacity utilization, waste, and cost performance.
- Lead strategic supply chain modeling for growth, productivity, capital investment decisions, and network redesign opportunities.
- Use advanced analytics and planning technologies to improve forecasting and supply planning performance.
- Drive planning digital transformation, including planning system enhancements, automation, AI, and advanced analytics.
- Build and develop a high-performing planning organization and foster accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and data-driven decision making.
- Coach and mentor regional planning leaders and succession candidates.
- Partner with HR and Supply Chain leadership to strengthen planning capabilities.
- Integrate Operations, Finance, Procurement, Transportation, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Supply Chain teams.
- Partner with Finance to align operational plans with financial forecasts and profitability goals.
- Work with Procurement to ensure material availability and develop risk mitigation strategies.
- Support customer service excellence through proactive supply chain planning and execution.
Benefits
- Annual bonus eligibility.
- Comprehensive benefits package.
- 401(k) with company match.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
