Supply Chain Planning Leader

Dupont•Elsmere, 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 across Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Production Planning and Scheduling, and Integrated Business Planning (IBP). Its purpose 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 establishes enterprise standards while adapting processes to different business and manufacturing models, manages a small team of Supply Chain professionals, and directly supports DuPont’s enterprise supply chain strategy. It reports to the VP, Integrated Supply Chain. The position is located at DuPont’s corporate headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, under a hybrid work 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.
At least 15 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 or Master Scheduling; S&OP or 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 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.
Ability 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, including 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 in alignment 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.
Define enterprise standards, roles, decision rights, governance, planning horizons, operating cadence, and escalation mechanisms.
Balance enterprise standardization with the needs of different businesses, manufacturing technologies, customer segments, and supply networks; establish maturity expectations and improvement roadmaps across Lines of Business.
Establish common Demand Planning standards that improve 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 support executive decisions and scenario planning when priorities or constraints are misaligned.
Integrate planning with business strategy, including growth initiatives, product transitions, capacity decisions, and portfolio changes.
Establish enterprise standards for supply planning, production planning, master scheduling, inventory planning, and capacity management; improve the translation of demand into executable production and inventory plans.
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 differences in products, customers, lead times, manufacturing constraints, and supply-chain economics.
Establish a common planning performance framework with enterprise KPIs and leading indicators, and drive improvement in customer service, forecast accuracy and bias, schedule adherence, inventory and working capital, obsolete inventory, planning stability, capacity utilization, and supply responsiveness.
Conduct transparent performance reviews and apply root-cause and problem-solving disciplines to close performance gaps; partner with Operational Excellence to embed improvements into the DuPont Business System (DBS).
Partner with IT/Digital and business leaders to define the roadmap for planning technology, data, analytics, and automation; establish common data definitions and reliable sources of truth.
Advance scenario modeling, predictive analytics, AI, and automation to improve planning quality, speed, and productivity, ensuring technology investments reinforce standardized processes.
Build an enterprise planning community and strengthen capabilities across Demand, Supply, Production Planning, Scheduling, and IBP; define 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 while influencing planners embedded throughout Lines of Business.
Serve as the senior enterprise authority for planning processes and standards; influence senior leaders toward enterprise solutions while recognizing legitimate business requirements.
Lead significant 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 the strategic direction and transformation of Supply Chain.