Supply Chain Planning Lead

Delta Faucet Company of Tennessee•Indianapolis, NY

About The Position

Kraus is seeking a Supply Chain Planning Lead to establish, mature, and own the company’s supply chain planning capability as the business continues to scale. This role will create a single, data-driven demand signal across Sales, Product, Finance, Supply Chain, and Operations, improving forecast accountability, inventory planning, and cross-functional decision-making. The right individual will lead key processes and collaborate with stakeholders at Kraus and Delta to optimize working capital, customer service and operational costs. The ideal candidate is a builder and player-coach: strategic enough to design the process, governance, and executive rhythm, but hands-on enough to manage forecasting, analytics, assumptions, and planning outputs. This role is intended for a manager who can influence across the organization, challenge assumptions constructively, and help move Kraus from reactive forecasting to a more disciplined, scalable planning model.

Requirements

8–12+ years of experience in demand planning, supply chain planning, forecasting, S&OP, inventory planning, or related disciplines.
Experience building, improving, or transforming planning processes in a growth-oriented or evolving business environment.
Strong analytical capability with the ability to turn complex data into clear business insights and practical recommendations.
Comfortable influencing senior stakeholders across Sales, Finance, Product, Operations, and Supply Chain.
Able to operate at both strategic and tactical levels: developing the roadmap while also executing the forecast and planning routines.

Nice To Haves

Experience with ERP and planning systems such as SAP, Kinaxis, IBP, Oracle, Blue Yonder, or similar tools preferred.
Experience in consumer products, durable goods, home improvement, plumbing, hardware, distribution, or manufacturing environments preferred.

Responsibilities

Demand Planning Strategy & Ownership: Collaborate with Delta and Masco Sister Companies to integrate Best Practices into Kraus processes. Develop the planning calendar, governance routines, forecast assumptions, and decision-making cadence. Build scalable data-driven processes that improve planning discipline and improve Forecast accuracy. Translate commercial strategy, customer trends, product launches, promotions, and market signals into an actionable demand outlook.
Forecasting, Analytics & Performance Management: Create and maintain short-, medium-, and long-term demand forecasts using historical trends, customer insights, seasonality, promotional activity, and business inputs. Establish and monitor KPIs such as forecast accuracy, forecast bias, forecast value-add, service-level impact, and inventory health. Identify demand risks, upside opportunities, and forecast variances; recommend practical actions to improve outcomes. Develop dashboards, reporting, and executive-ready insights that support data-driven planning decisions.
S&OP / Consensus Planning Leadership: Lead the monthly demand review and support the broader S&OP process. Facilitate consensus planning across Sales, Product, Finance, and Operations. Challenge and reconcile inputs from multiple functions to create one aligned demand plan. Present demand outlooks, key assumptions, risks, opportunities, and recommended decisions to leadership.
Inventory, Supply & Business Partnership: Partner with Supply Planning, Procurement, and Operations to balance demand, inventory, service levels, lead times, and working capital goals. Help identify stock-out exposure, excess/obsolete inventory risk, and demand-supply disconnects before they become operational issues. Support scenario planning related to growth initiatives, major customers, product transitions, promotions, and supply constraints. Develop and implement safety stock policies that are scalable and optimize Kraus’s inventory.
Capability Building & Player-Coach Leadership: Serve as the internal subject matter expert for demand planning best practices. Build tools, templates, routines, and planning discipline that can scale with the business. Coach cross-functional partners and any future planning team members on process, metrics, and expectations. Remain hands-on in the work while creating the foundation for a more mature planning function over time.