Supply Chain Planning Lead
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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Benefits
- Actual compensation may vary based on various factors including experience, education, geographic location, and/or skills.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
