Senior Director, SIOP CoE

Job Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and lead a global SIOP Center of Excellence, establishing harmonized processes, governance, and tools across all business units and regions.
• Establish clear process ownership, decision rights, and escalation frameworks across a multi-entity operating model.
• Lead the development of intercompany planning processes, ensuring alignment across manufacturing sites, distribution centers, and business units.
• Act as a hands-on leader and player-coach who can step into regions or sites to stabilize, diagnose, and improve SIOP performance ("parachute in" capability).
• Ensure SIOP leaders and site teams are operationally grounded, driving actionable plans that have business impact.
• Build a culture of accountability, follow-through, and measurable outcomes.

Performance Management & Metrics

• Define and deploy a global SIOP performance management system, including KPIs such as forecast accuracy, inventory, service level, and capacity utilization.
• Develop real-time dashboards and executive reporting to provide visibility and enable rapid decision-making.
• Lead governance of master data management processes, driving data accuracy, standardization, and integrity across systems to reduce downstream system and process disruption.
• Drive root cause analysis and corrective action loops across the network.

Digital Enablement & Systems Integration

• Ensure effective utilization and optimization of ERP/MRP systems, including SAP, to support SIOP processes.
• Partner with IT and Digital teams to advance planning system capabilities, data integrity, and automation.
• Leverage advanced analytics and tools to enable scenario modeling, demand planning, and inventory optimization/modelling.

Talent Development & Organizational Capability

• Build and develop a high-performing global SIOP team, including regional and site-level process leaders.
• Coach teams to balance strategic thinking with operational rigor and detail orientation.
• Identify capability gaps and implement training, tools, and playbooks to elevate SIOP maturity across the organization.

Transformation & Continuous Improvement

• Lead SIOP transformation initiatives, particularly in post-integration environments, driving harmonization and scalability.
• Apply Lean / Six Sigma methodologies to eliminate waste and improve planning cycle efficiency.
• Continuously benchmark against industry best practices to evolve the SIOP capability.