Associate Director, Global Sales, Inventory, and Operational Planning (SIOP)

About the role

The Associate Director, Global Sales, Inventory, and Operational Planning (SIOP) manages the execution, quality, and continuous improvement of the global Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SIOP) process and associated plans. This role partners closely with Regional SIOP teams to ensure disciplined cadence, high-quality analytics, and clear decision support for executive forums.

Responsibilities

• Cook up the end-to-end global SIOP process, making sure all cycle steps, inputs, outputs, and documentation get done on time.
• Prepare, consolidate, and verify data and materials for Global SIOP meetings, including demand, supply, inventory, capacity, and financial views.
• Create and maintain standard SIOP analytics, dashboards, KPIs, and reports to support decision-making, tradeoff analysis, and scenario planning.
• Act as a key go-between for regional and global SIOP forums, ensuring consistent information flow and adherence to standard work practices.
• Attend regional and country cluster SIOP meetings as needed to capture escalations, risks, and opportunities for global review and resolution.
• Support inventory management objectives by helping identify risks, excess, shortages, and working capital impacts, and documenting escalation decisions and approvals.
• Escalate supply, capacity, or material constraints, providing fact-based analysis and clearly articulated options.
• Manage global SIOP process governance and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Recruit and manage planning process excellence staff as needed.

Key Accountabilities

• Support the Global SIOP VP in maintaining a disciplined, standardized, and system-driven SIOP process globally.
• Ensure high-quality inputs and outputs for Global SIOP reviews, enabling efficient, fact-based executive discussions.
• Drive rigor and consistency in SIOP execution across regions while allowing for appropriate local nuances.
• Enable transparency across demand, supply, and inventory plans to support service, cost, and working capital objectives.
• Deliver high quality sales, inventory, and operational plans that optimize business results and align with strategic cross-functional objectives.
• Drive continuous improvement of planning capabilities challenging status quo and seeking creative solutions to enhance company competitiveness in terms of quality, cost, responsiveness, and growth.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in a supply chain, industrial engineering, business, or related technical field required. MBA or MS degree preferred, but not required.
• Professional certifications such as APICS/ASCM CPIM and CSCP, Lean Six Sigma, data analytics, and PMI PMP are highly desirable.
• Languages required for the position: English.
• 8+ years experience in supply chain planning roles including leadership of SIOP / S&OP / IBP cycles and proven hands-on experience in demand planning, supply planning, and inventory management in a global, matrixed organization.
• 3+ years of demonstrated Supply Planning process improvement and project management capability with a proven ability to drive results.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex data into clear insights and executive-ready decision materials, preferably within the regulated medtech industry.
• Strong working knowledge of advanced planning systems and analytics. Experience with Kinaxis Maestro/RapidResponse or similar demand, supply, and financial planning systems.
• Experience with JDE or similar ERP systems.
• Software proficiency with MS Office suite and data reporting / analytics tools such as Tableau and PowerBI.
• Strong process discipline, attention to detail, and follow-through with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Effective collaborator able to influence across functions, geographies, and organizational levels without direct authority.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with frequent priorities and escalations.
• Experience directly managing and developing staff as well as leading teams.