Manager Supply Chain Planning

About the Role

This role is responsible for overseeing and managing an organization's supply chain planning activities. It involves implementing supply chain strategies, optimizing inventory levels, and ensuring timely product availability to meet customer demand. The position collaborates with cross-functional teams, analyzes data, and identifies opportunities to enhance operational efficiency and drive cost savings while ensuring timely delivery of products to customers.

Responsibilities

• Execute the integrated business planning process (IBP) by managing cross-functional efforts that fully integrate demand, supply, and distribution planning processes.
• Drive the implementation of new supply chain planning strategies to optimize inventory levels, ensure product availability, and meet customer demand.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including commercial, marketing, and demand planning, to analyze demand patterns, sales forecasts, and market trends to anticipate future demand and develop scenarios to adjust supply chain plans accordingly.
• Work with procurement, production, and logistics to find ways to enhance operational efficiency.
• Establish and supervise supply planning and distribution activities by monitoring on-time delivery, lead times, material inventories, tracking production progress, and reviewing factors that affect schedules.
• Explain deviations from targets with root cause investigations.
• Implement methods and best practices related to systems and processes that support managing inventory and reducing excess and obsolete expenses. This includes control management measures such as aged inventory, safety stocks, reorder points, and economic order quantities to optimize inventory levels and minimize stockouts for all finished goods, work in progress, and raw materials.
• Drive usage of supply chain planning software and identify improvements to the planning and scheduling processes.
• Maintain high-quality data for planning parameters to execute the order fulfillment strategy, including stocking policies, lead time, and safety stocks.
• Drive improvement projects and special initiatives required of the planning organization.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, operations management, or related field. May consider equivalent work experience in lieu of degree.
• 8+ years of experience in supply chain management or a related field.
• Experience with inventory management, demand forecasting methodologies, supply chain planning software, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.

Travel: Up to 10%.

About the Company

Rogers Corporation makes tomorrow's innovations possible. We develop cutting-edge, market-leading material technologies and rely on a talented workforce to create innovative specialty materials and components that enable technology in high-growth markets. Our global team focuses on delivering high performance and reliability, driving results in areas such as energy-efficient motor drives, vehicle electrification, alternative energy, sealing, vibration management, and more.

At Rogers Corporation (NYSE:ROG), we are a global leader in materials technology and manufacturing, with nearly 200 years of experience. We produce engineered materials to power, protect, and connect our world, enabling leading innovators to achieve greater performance, speed to market, and reliability. Headquartered in Chandler, Arizona (USA), Rogers operates manufacturing facilities in the United States, China, Germany, Belgium, Hungary, and South Korea, with joint ventures and sales offices worldwide.

Benefits

Rogers offers an exceptional work environment and a value-driven culture modeled by leadership. Employees have access to developmental opportunities as well as top-notch benefits and incentive programs.