Senior Manager, Supply Chain

ASSA ABLOY • Lake Forest, CA

7h • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Integrated Supply Chain Planning leads end-to-end planning for Electronic Locks, from customer demand through material readiness, production scheduling, and delivery. The role owns forecast alignment, multi-site supply and production plans, and planning trade-offs across customer service, inventory, working capital, and cost. It directs a global planning team and establishes one integrated plan across the manufacturing and distribution network.

The position leads and develops demand, supply, CPFR, and production planning employees across multiple sites and time zones; owns demand planning and S&OP alignment; manages time-phased material requirements; and owns the weekly master production schedule across the global manufacturing footprint. It also optimizes inventory and working capital, coordinates plans to customer ship dates, and manages readiness for launches, transfers, engineering changes, and lifecycle transitions. The role improves planning processes, data, systems, reporting, and decision routines, and presents scenarios to senior leadership.

This is a hybrid position based in Lake Forest, California, with onsite work Tuesday through Thursday. The work environment is a normal office setting, with regular collaboration across global functions, manufacturing sites, suppliers, customers, and time zones, plus periodic domestic and international travel. The annual salary range is $105,000–$165,000.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Business, or a related field.
• 7–10 years of progressive supply chain experience, including leadership of planning teams.
• Strong command of S&OP, MRP, demand planning, master production scheduling, bills of material, lead-time logic, safety stock, time fences, allocation, and component lifecycle planning.
• Planning experience with mixed mechanical and electronic products, including PCBAs, semiconductors, long-lead components, and multi-site or offshore manufacturing.
• Ability to connect component availability and manufacturing schedules to customer service, inventory, working capital, cost, revenue, and operational performance.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, people-leadership, and executive-communication skills.
• Hands-on experience using ERP and planning systems, reporting, and advanced data analysis.

Nice To Haves

• APICS CPIM or CSCP certification.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop demand, supply, CPFR, and production planning employees across multiple sites and time zones; set expectations, coach and provide feedback, develop capabilities, support career growth and succession, and hold the team accountable.
• Establish common planning processes, data, performance measures, and escalation standards.
• Own the Electronic Locks demand plan and S&OP demand alignment process; partner with Sales and Product Management to improve forecast accuracy and bias by customer, channel, and product, and translate demand volatility into supply and capacity plans.
• Own time-phased material requirements for mechanical components, electronics, semiconductors, and PCBAs; maintain visibility to lead times, minimum order quantities, lifecycle status, supplier-confirmed availability, and factory capacity; provide Sourcing with requirements and escalate supply gaps.
• Own the weekly master production schedule across the global manufacturing footprint; maintain clear-to-build visibility, planning parameters, frozen-window discipline, and schedule change control; resolve competing priorities when supply or capacity is constrained.
• Optimize inventory and working capital while controlling excess, obsolete, stranded, and premium material exposure; quantify impacts such as downtime, lost output, labor inefficiency, expedite cost, premium freight, delayed revenue, and customer penalties.
• Build plans to customer ship dates and coordinate with Manufacturing, Transportation, Distribution, and Customer Service to manage inbound flow, backlog, fulfillment risk, on-time delivery, and on-time in-full performance.
• Own material and schedule readiness for launches, transfers, engineering changes, phase-in and phase-out, and end-of-life transitions.
• Improve planning processes, master data, ERP parameters, reporting, and decision routines; present decision-ready scenarios to senior leadership and drive corrective action to reduce recurring shortages and expedite activity.

Benefits

• Paid time off, including sick and vacation days.
• 12 paid holidays.
• Job-protected leave benefits in accordance with applicable law.
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• Supplemental critical illness, hospital, accident, and indemnity coverage available for purchase.
• Health and flexible savings accounts, subject to eligibility requirements.
• 401(k) plan with employer contributions and matching, subject to plan eligibility requirements.

What This Job Offers

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