Principal ISC Project Manager – S/4 Planning & Logistics

Responsibilities

• Contribute to Planning and Logistics transformation decisions by providing insight into tradeoffs, operational risks, and target outcomes across forecasting, supply planning, warehousing, transportation, and fulfillment.
• Define the level of process change, harmonization, and standardization the business is prepared to undertake across planning and logistics operations.
• Identify core business requirements and capabilities for demand planning, supply planning, inventory management, transportation, warehousing, and distribution, including critical compliance considerations.
• Partner with IT and application consultants to define the high-level process scope, solution design priorities, and transformation ambition for Planning and Logistics.
• Identify key stakeholders, interdependencies, and integration points across procurement, manufacturing, customer service, transportation, and distribution networks.
• Support the Business Program Leader in aligning leadership around the Planning and Logistics transformation roadmap, priorities, and business value.
• Help establish and enable business roles such as process owners, SMEs, planners, logistics leads, and change champions to support sustainable transformation.
• Lead and manage cross-functional teams to deliver Planning and Logistics initiatives on time, within budget, and with measurable operational impact.
• Develop and execute project plans covering scope, schedule, budget, resource needs, testing, deployment, and stabilization for planning and logistics process changes.
• Identify and mitigate risks related to planning accuracy, inventory availability, transportation execution, warehouse readiness, and customer delivery performance.
• Monitor progress against milestones and KPIs, and provide regular updates to stakeholders on status, risks, decisions, and operational outcomes.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance planning effectiveness, inventory health, logistics performance, and end-to-end service levels.
• Collaborate across functions to ensure successful integration of planning and logistics processes with procurement, manufacturing, customer fulfillment, and finance.
• Ensure adherence to project governance, transformation methodologies, and tools while supporting scalable, standardized Planning and Logistics processes.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in supply chain, Planning, Logistics, or related project/program management, with a consistent record of leading complex transformation initiatives.
• Strong understanding of business processes and regional variations across demand planning, supply planning, inventory management, warehouse operations, transportation, and distribution.
• Expert knowledge of Planning and Logistics processes, including forecasting, supply and inventory planning, warehousing, transportation, and customer fulfillment.
• Proven experience leading complex projects involving process design, ERP transformation, project planning, execution, testing, deployment, and performance monitoring within Planning and Logistics environments.
• Due to compliance with U.S. export control laws and regulations, candidate must be a U.S. Person, which is defined as, a U.S. citizen, a U.S. permanent resident, or have protected status in the U.S. under asylum or refugee status or have the ability to obtain an export authorization.
• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations, Business Administration, Logistics, or a related field. Master’s degree preferred.
• Strong leadership and strategic thinking abilities, with the capacity to envision and drive the future direction of supply chain initiatives.
• Ability to influence and drive change in a complex and matrixed organization, ensuring successful adoption and implementation of new strategies.
• Experience with advanced project and transformation methodologies and tools, with the ability to improve planning discipline, logistics execution, and process standardization.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, conveying complex information to diverse audiences effectively.
• Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional and global team environment, fostering collaboration and synergy across diverse teams.
• Strong project management skills and adept at balancing multiple projects and priorities in a dynamic environment.
• PMP Certification preferred.
• Ability to drive change and inspire teams toward common objectives.
• Proactive approach to identifying areas for improvement and implementing changes.
• Commitment to fostering a culture of continuous improvement within the supply chain function.
• Proven ability to solve complex problems related to supply chain management.