Supply Chain Planning Leader

DuPont•Wilmington, DE

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Supply Chain Planning Leader defines, builds, and deploys DuPont’s global end-to-end supply chain planning operating model across all Lines of Business. The role establishes harmonized processes, standards, governance, capabilities, and performance management for Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Production Planning and Scheduling, and Integrated Business Planning (IBP). Its aim is to improve connectivity from customer demand through manufacturing execution, supporting better decision-making, customer service, inventory and working-capital productivity, and operational resilience. Working across a complex global matrix, the leader partners with Line of Business, Commercial, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Finance, Procurement, IT/Digital, and Operational Excellence leaders. The role manages a small team of Supply Chain professionals and influences a broader network of planners embedded throughout the Lines of Business. It reports to the VP, Integrated Supply Chain. The position is based at DuPont’s corporate headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, under a hybrid policy requiring four days in the office and one day remote. Travel of 20%–30% is required.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Operations, Business, or a related discipline.
15 or more years of progressive leadership experience in global supply chain and planning, ideally across multiple businesses, regions, and manufacturing environments.
Deep experience in several of the following: Demand Planning; Supply Planning; Production Planning/Master Scheduling; S&OP/Integrated Business Planning; inventory and working-capital optimization; capacity planning; planning systems, data, and analytics.
Demonstrated success establishing or transforming planning processes across a complex global matrix organization.
Track record of translating business strategy into integrated demand, supply, inventory, and capacity plans.
Strong business and financial acumen, including understanding trade-offs across customer service, inventory, capacity, cost, cash, and growth.
Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders across Commercial, Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, IT/Digital, and other functions.
Experience leading large-scale business-process and organizational change.
Willingness to travel 20%–30%.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree.
Experience developing and deploying global planning standards or a Planning Center of Excellence.
Experience with integrated business planning, advanced planning systems, ERP platforms, digital supply-chain technologies, and advanced analytics.
Lean or Operational Excellence experience with structured problem-solving and continuous-improvement capability.
Experience building global functional capability, talent pipelines, and communities of practice.
APICS/ASCM certification such as CPIM or CSCP.

Responsibilities

Define and lead the enterprise planning strategy and operating model aligned with DuPont’s business, growth, commercial, operational excellence, and supply chain strategies.
Establish a common global framework connecting Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Production Planning and Scheduling, and execution.
Set enterprise standards, roles, decision rights, governance, planning horizons, operating cadence, escalation mechanisms, maturity expectations, and improvement roadmaps.
Balance enterprise standardization with the differing needs of businesses, manufacturing technologies, customer segments, and supply networks.
Establish common Demand Planning standards for forecast quality, assumptions, accountability, and integration with Commercial and Business teams.
Strengthen IBP/S&OP processes to integrate demand, supply, capacity, inventory, risk, and opportunity, and enable executive decisions and scenario planning when priorities are misaligned.
Integrate planning with business strategy, including growth initiatives, product transitions, capacity decisions, and portfolio changes.
Establish standards for supply planning, production planning, master scheduling, inventory planning, and capacity management.
Improve translation of demand into executable production and inventory plans, and strengthen planning discipline across manufacturing sites and external manufacturing networks.
Partner with Manufacturing and Operations leaders to improve schedule stability, responsiveness, asset utilization, and customer delivery.
Define segmentation approaches that account for products, customers, lead times, manufacturing constraints, and supply-chain economics.
Establish a planning performance framework with enterprise KPIs and leading indicators; conduct transparent performance reviews and use root-cause and problem-solving disciplines to close gaps.
Drive improvement in customer service and delivery, forecast accuracy and bias, schedule adherence and attainment, inventory and working capital, slow-moving and obsolete inventory, planning stability, capacity utilization, and supply responsiveness.
Partner with Operational Excellence to embed planning improvements into the DuPont Business System and promote continuous improvement.
Partner with IT/Digital and business leaders on the enterprise roadmap for planning technology, data, analytics, and automation.
Establish common data definitions and reliable single sources of truth for planning performance and decision-making; advance scenario modeling, predictive analytics, AI, and automation.
Ensure technology investments reinforce standardized business processes rather than automate unnecessary complexity.
Build an enterprise planning community and strengthen capabilities across Demand, Supply, Production Planning, Scheduling, and IBP.
Define planning capabilities, roles, competencies, career paths, and development priorities; establish training, coaching, practitioner-development, and knowledge-sharing mechanisms.
Develop a pipeline of planning talent and future enterprise supply chain leaders; lead, coach, and develop the global Planning team.
Serve as the senior enterprise authority for planning processes and standards and influence senior leaders toward enterprise solutions while recognizing legitimate business requirements.
Lead change across businesses, regions, functions, and cultures; simplify complexity, challenge legacy practices, and build commitment to common processes.
Represent Planning within the global Supply Chain leadership team and contribute to Supply Chain strategy and transformation.